From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesse Sheidlower Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Bug in ange-ftp on NetBSD Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 19:47:33 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020518234733.GB940@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021765680 17265 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2002 23:48:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 23:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 179Dvc-0004UM-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 01:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 179Dw0-0001oj-00; Sat, 18 May 2002 19:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail1.panix.com ([166.84.1.72]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 179DvC-0001ZN-00 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 19:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715A2487D0 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 19:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jester@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g4INlX101909 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 May 2002 19:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1446 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1446 I was having some problems using ange-ftp to get to a NetBSD system, and after a trying a bunch of different things, eventually asked my sysadmin, who replied: ----- The problem is that ange-ftp uses a nonstandard way of getting directory information that doesn't work with NetBSD's ftpd. This is an open issue with NetBSD - it's in their bug database as: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=12667 The problem is that ange-ftp sends "ls -al " to show directory contents, which works with most FTP servers but isn't really part of the protocol. It became unsupported "by accident" when we switched to lukemftpd last year, because lukemftpd parses the "ls" command internally instead of just invoking a subshell to call /bin/ls. It would be nice if someone fixed ange-ftp to be a little smarter about this stuff. It would work fine if they left off the directory name (i.e. chdir'd to the directory before sending "ls -al"). Is the package still being maintained? ----- So, I hope that this can be fixed for future versions of GNU Emacs. In the meantime, could you recommend to someone entirely ignorant of LISP a way of patching this so it works? Thanks, hope this helps. Jesse Sheidlower