Re: Fixing a bug on Tramp

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Justin Joseph Kaipada <justinjoseph0007@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Justin,

> When trying to connect to a IBM Z/OS machine, tramp fails at the first
> test saying 
>
> tramp-file-name-handler: ‘echo \"‘uname -sr‘\"’ does not return a
> valid Lisp expression: ‘OS/390 26.00
> ’
>
> After wandering through the source code for couple of days, I can't
> figure out what's wrong. Well, I only know beginner level lisp for one
> thing. The lack of comments anywhere doesn't help either.
>
> Actually running echo \"‘uname -sr‘\" returns "OS/390 26.00" on my
> Z/OS machine.

Pls set tramp-verbose to 10, and rerun your test. There will be a Tramp
debug buffer, which you will show us. Pls send it as attachment, because
every single bit will count; the buffer's text shall not be mangled by
"clever" mail programs.

Btw, which Emacs/Tramp version are you running?

> Thanks, please someone help me out. I have spend 4 hours on this, as
> of now without any results.

This is not lost time! It sounds like my default approach to understand
an unknown package.

Best regards, Michael.