From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mimencode error using tramp Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:10:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87fxjht1xf.fsf@gmx.de> References: <6tbjlsFa6jd1U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232269852 27141 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2009 09:10:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 10:12:05 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 1LOThM-0007Kz-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:12:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOTg5-0008P6-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOTfm-0008N5-0J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOTfk-0008Lk-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50957 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOTfk-0008Lh-0n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48654) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOTfj-00077P-9J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2009 09:10:21 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A2219C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO ubuntu.local) [87.162.33.156] by mail.gmx.net (mp058) with SMTP; 18 Jan 2009 10:10:21 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+It6YlwAuIp6tIT5mBD63LoUj3Ncydjr3zFG8wei pVP7NG76YAitgk In-Reply-To: <6tbjlsFa6jd1U1@mid.individual.net> (Will Parsons's message of "16 Jan 2009 14:25:00 GMT") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.62 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:61441 Archived-At: 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? Best regards, Michael.