From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ange-ftp pb renaming files Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:07:25 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412E0ABD.4090807@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093536667 28133 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 16:11:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 18:10:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0Mpl-0005VG-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:10:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0MuO-000654-Fr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:15:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de dTZlLxBEg9D2i9WFLJAtCQMqHjbHlj6PRzH9itnENIqZmnx5c= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124950 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20300 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20300 Drew Adams wrote: > I'm using Emacs 20.7.3 on Windows. > > I access a remote directory on a Solaris machine in Dired. When I try to > move (rename) marked files I always get errors like the following, where > is the remote Solaris machine, is the directory, and > are the file to be renamed and its new name: > > Move `/://' to `/://' failed: > (ftp-error Renaming FTP Error: "---> RNFR //" > /:// /://) > > Copy sometimes works (but not recursively), but rename does not. > > Sometimes the rename _deletes the original_ without creating the new-name > file. After trying to copy a subdirectory fails, all copies of normal files > fail also, with this error message: (ftp-error FTP Error: BINARY > failed: ---> TYPE I) > > There is no problem renaming and copying on the local machine. I guess this > is a problem with ange-ftp? You might want to try upgrading to Emacs 21.3, which was released almost a year and a half ago (and almost 3 years after 20.7) and which contains numerous changes to ange-ftp.el since 20.7. But I suspect the problem is between the Windows ftp client and the Solaris ftp server. -- Kevin Rodgers