From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ange-ftp: Getting files with no extension on dumb hosts Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:20:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87wsgip73u.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de> References: <1b4c130b-5c36-4f4e-972c-cb1c49fa2fb2@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223537969 22354 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 07:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 09:40:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Knq8H-00072G-G0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knq7D-0006Cb-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Knq6s-0006CN-2g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Knq6p-0006Bz-EW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:38:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58842 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knq6p-0006Bw-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:22681) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Knq6o-0008A8-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.alcatel.de ([194.113.59.96]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Knq6j-0006yj-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from slbpky.alcatel.de (slbpky.ad1.ad.alcatel.com [149.204.93.46] (may be forged)) by mailrelay2.alcatel.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/ICT) with ESMTP id m997chCl019735; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:38:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1b4c130b-5c36-4f4e-972c-cb1c49fa2fb2@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> (Eric's message of "Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:41:48 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 149.204.45.73 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58604 Archived-At: 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.