From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Ange-ftp: Getting files with no extension on dumb hosts Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1b4c130b-5c36-4f4e-972c-cb1c49fa2fb2@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223505645 14748 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 22:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 00:41:43 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 1Knhio-0004JB-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knhhl-0005VA-5b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.42.161.36 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223502109 9740 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2008 21:41:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.42.161.36; posting-account=baqlugoAAADGe3uZxwXNJvS9trKLtCm1 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.30 Safari/525.13, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163235 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:58580 Archived-At: Hello all, I have already asked this question on the ange mailing list and did not get a response. I am hoping that since it is an Emacs package, some of you may have already solved this problem (even though it isn't an Emacs problem). 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. Any suggestions for doing this? (Should I be treating my host as something other than a dumb host?)