Re: ange-ftp using binary mode

[Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com>]

On 2/16/2012 5:42 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Ken Goldman<kgold@watson.ibm.com>  writes:
>
>> On 2/10/2012 4:55 PM, Ken Goldman wrote:
>>> I have to use ange-ftp because the server I'm connecting to doesn't run
>>> ssh. When I transfer, it uses binary, which does not work. The server is
>>> a mainframe and likely uses ebcdic.
>>>
>>> If I ftp from the command line in ascii mode, the file comes over to
>>> Windows correctly. If I enter the commands by hand in the ange-ftp,
>>> setting ascii, it works.
>>>
>>> How do I tell ange-ftp to use ascii?
>>
>> Following up my own post, I edited ange-ftp.el and changed 'binary' to
>> ascii'.  Files now come across absolutely perfectly.
>>
>> I know that's an awful hack, but it's a proof of concept.  Now, how do
>> I convince ange-ftp to use ascii without editing the elisp source?
>
> Which Emacs version are you running?
>
> Last year, there was a bug report about ange-ftp's binary mode, see
> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7383>. IIRC, it was about
> ange-ftp always using binary mode, when your local system is MS
> Windows. This is fixed meanwhile.
>
> Chances are good, that a prerelease of Emacs 24.1 works for you out-of-the-box.

I looked at the bug reports, but they seem to be cases where people 
__wanted__ binary mode.  I have the opposite issue.  I always want ASCII 
mode so ftp will do the EBCDIC <-> ASCII conversion.

I'm running 23.1.1.  I won't risk a pre-release when I have a source 
code hack that works.  I'll retest when 24 goes into production.