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Hello,

I work in a development environment which does not support secure 
copying via any of tramp's protocols.  I also do not have decision 
making power for implementing these protocols.  I have the default 
setting for tramp set to ange-ftp "(setq tramp-default-method "ftp")" 
in my .emacs file, but I routinely receive errors like:

Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

when trying to open/save files.  I've spent a lot of time just trying 
to get back to an environment where I can open and save files remotely 
via FTP.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

clay