Re: Wanted: Help isolating FTP problem

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:

> When I position the cursor on the (DIRED display) www line and hit return, I
> expect it to give me a directory listing of the contents of that directory.
> It does not! Instead it says "no file on this line".
>
> If I use find file, that does not work either, it gets stuck on the www and
> says "no such directory". There is clearly a directory there with lots of
> stuff in it, though.
>
> Here is the display from DIRED:
>  /xyz@www.decisionchannel.com:/:
>   01-28-03  03:07PM       <DIR>          cases
>   01-16-03  07:37PM       <DIR>          database
>   02-09-02  03:19PM       <DIR>          logs
>   11-05-02  11:51AM       <DIR>          MSFTPSVC15
>   10-11-02  03:18PM       <DIR>          www

This appear to be two completely separate problems.  Hm.  But maybe
you can kill two flies with one stroke¹ by frobbing the variables
ange-ftp-dumb-unix-host-regexp and/or ange-ftp-dumb-host-types.

The dired problem comes from the strange directory listing format.
Dired uses the variable dired-move-to-filename-regexp to find the
filename, and that expects the date to be right before the filename.

It's unclear to me where the find-file problem comes from.  That
would have to be investigated further.

¹ I wonder what the English version of this idiom is?
  dict.leo.org...  Ah!  To kill two birds with one stone.  It seems
  the English are somewhat more fond of bigger game :-)
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