From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mimencode error using tramp Date: 19 Jan 2009 17:31:25 GMT Message-ID: <6tjrncFbbib8U1@mid.individual.net> References: <6tbjlsFa6jd1U1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232386867 8607 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2009 17:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:41:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 18:42:19 2009 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 1LOy8P-0006zC-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOy78-0003We-SD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:40:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 70 Original-X-Trace: individual.net cgs7sV113cb51OYvS6ZYgA6DCbtlQ/AONZr7FdxJ8iDpZKqOtR Cancel-Lock: sha1:mNN8bK76rLd7NNdOhoGlAGExog0= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166148 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:61472 Archived-At: Michael Albinus wrote: > Will Parsons writes: > >> Using Emacs 22.1.1 on FreeBSD, I'm trying to edit remote files on a system >> running QNX4 using tramp, but I get the following error in the minibuffer: >> >> Couldn't find exit status of `mimencode -b > >> From the tramp buffer: >> >> ( mimencode -b /dev/null; echo tramp_exit_status $? ) >> mimencode: not found >> tramp_exit_status 1 >> >> How can I turn off looking for mimencode so that I can get tramp to work? > > See variable `tramp-coding-commands'. But Tramp shall check first, if a > given coding command is applicable on the remote host, so I don't > understand, why it is using mimencode. > > Could you, please, send the traces? When I retried this, I get somewhat different diagnostics, but still the same basic problem. Tramp buffer: -------------------------------------- ( tramp_encode /dev/null; echo tramp_exit_status $? ) tramp_encode: not found tramp_exit_status 1 Trace buffer: -------------------------------------- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn't find an inline transfer encoding") signal(error ("Couldn't find an inline transfer encoding")) error("Couldn't find an inline transfer encoding") tramp-find-inline-encoding(nil nil "wbp" "maple") tramp-post-connection(nil nil "wbp" "maple") tramp-open-connection-rsh(nil nil "wbp" "maple") tramp-maybe-open-connection(nil nil "wbp" "maple") tramp-send-command(nil nil "wbp" "maple" "cd ~; pwd" t) tramp-handle-expand-file-name("/wbp@maple:.emacs" nil) apply(tramp-handle-expand-file-name ("/wbp@maple:.emacs" nil)) tramp-sh-file-name-handler(expand-file-name "/wbp@maple:.emacs" nil) apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler expand-file-name ("/wbp@maple:.emacs" nil)) tramp-file-name-handler(expand-file-name "/wbp@maple:.emacs" nil) expand-file-name("/wbp@maple:.emacs") find-file-noselect("/wbp@maple:.emacs" nil nil t) find-file("/wbp@maple:.emacs" t) call-interactively(find-file) -------------------------------------- The value of tramp-coding-commands is: (("mimencode -b" "mimencode -u -b" base64-encode-region base64-decode-region) ("mmencode -b" "mmencode -u -b" base64-encode-region base64-decode-region) ("recode data..base64" "recode base64..data" base64-encode-region base64-decode-region) ("uuencode xxx" "uudecode -o /dev/stdout" tramp-uuencode-region uudecode-decode-region) ("uuencode xxx" "uudecode -o -" tramp-uuencode-region uudecode-decode-region) ("uuencode xxx" "uudecode -p" tramp-uuencode-region uudecode-decode-region) ("uuencode xxx" "tramp_uudecode" tramp-uuencode-region uudecode-decode-region) ("tramp_encode_with_module" "tramp_decode_with_module" base64-encode-region base64-decode-region) ("tramp_encode" "tramp_decode" base64-encode-region base64-decode-region)) But I don't know what to do with this information to get tramp to work. -- Will