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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mimencode error using tramp
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:10:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxjht1xf.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6tbjlsFa6jd1U1@mid.individual.net> (Will Parsons's message of "16 Jan 2009 14:25:00 GMT")

Will Parsons <wbp@nodomain.invalid> 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 </dev/null'
>
> From the tramp buffer:
>
>   ( mimencode -b </dev/null 2>/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?

Best regards, Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-18  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16 14:25 mimencode error using tramp Will Parsons
2009-01-18  9:10 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.5156.1232269827.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-19 17:31   ` Will Parsons
2009-01-19 19:17     ` Michael Albinus

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