From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Peter Milliken" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using ange-ftp between Unix and VMS. Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:52:25 +1100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2693cc5f.0311241109.20d2f907@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069704051 7385 80.91.224.253 (24 Nov 2003 20:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 21:00:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOMt6-0002eA-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:00:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AONqC-0004ea-Tp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:01:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!nnrp1.ozemail.com.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.15.64.32 Original-X-Trace: nnrp1.ozemail.com.au 1069703545 203.15.64.32 (Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:52:25 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:52:25 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118604 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:14545 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14545 Don't know if it is the same problem that I had about 3 years ago now - I was trying to ange-ftp from a Windoze box to VMS (the company I was working for then didn't want to put any NFS type package onto the VMS box). At that time ange-ftp didn't make much of an attempt to understand the output of ls from VMS ftp. Looking at ange-ftp now, it looks like the maintainers have done considerable work to attempt supporting VMS. Have you looked through the ange-ftp.el commentary? There seems to be some extensive stuff there now over the version I was using. As a last resort you'll have to do what I did - which is debug the source and work it out for yourself. Back then I wrote a reasonable amount of Elisp and then recoded some of it into Ada ((quick parsing and restructuring of the output of ls to suit what ange-ftp wanted) for speed. I think from memory it took about 2 - 3 days to get up and going but since all of the work was on VMS boxes it was worth the time investment :-) Goodluck, I know how frustrating it can be to want to use Emacs and be stuck with something like VMS (which I have used extensively about 15 years ago - but who wants to go back to using LSE and EVE when you have been exposed Emacs? :-)). Peter "Will Williamson" wrote in message news:2693cc5f.0311241109.20d2f907@posting.google.com... > I am using gnu emacs version 21.2.1 on a Solaris box. I am trying to > use ange-ftp to access files on a VMS machine. I get the following > error: "Cannot get listing for device". Here is the output from the > ange-ftp window: > > ftp> open e15a1 > Connected to e15a1. > 220 e15a1 FTP Server (Version 4.2) Ready. > ftp> user "wewilli1" Turtle Power! > 331 Username WEWILLI1 requires a Password > 230 User logged in. > ftp> hash > Hash mark printing on (8192 bytes/hash mark). > ftp> > > Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?