Of course. This is the buffer from my W32 Emacs. The buffer is essentially the same when I use Emacs on UNIX. This is the result of doing open-file on /ftp:userfoo@foohost.bar.company.com:/home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote --- Invalid help command foo. open foohost.bar.company.com Connected to foohost.bar.company.com. 220-QTCP at FOOHOST. 220 Connection will close if idle more than 5 minutes. user "userfoo" Turtle Power! 331 Enter password. 230 USERFOO logged on. hash Hash mark printing On ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) . dir /home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote/ c:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp50768Hh 200 PORT subcommand request successful. 125-NAMEFMT set to 1. 125 List started. dir /home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote/ c:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp50768Hh 250 List completed. ftp: 91 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 91000.00Kbytes/sec. 200 PORT subcommand request successful. 125 List started. quote mdtm /home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote/ 250 List completed. ftp: 91 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 91000.00Kbytes/sec. 500 Subcommand MDTM not valid. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: > Eric writes: > > > Hello all, > > Hi, > > > I'm having trouble using ange-ftp to get files with no extensions from > > a "dumb host". The host doesn't support any flags on ls commands > > (although simply 'ls ' works), so I added it to > > ange's dumb host list. > > > > However, I can't open files without an extension. This seems to be > > because ange treats these as directories and tries to list their > > contents with a DIR command. I looked briefly through the lisp, but > > nothing jumped out at me as an easy way to force ange to treat a > > certain path as a file rather than a directory. > > Could you, please, show the contents of the ange ftp buffer? The buffer > is called "*ftp user@host*", user and host being your used names. > > Best regards, Michael. >