ange-ftp pb renaming files

ange-ftp pb renaming files

[Drew Adams]

I'm using Emacs 20.7.3 on Windows.

I access a remote directory on a Solaris machine in Dired. When I try to
move (rename) marked files I always get errors like the following, where
<MACHINE> is the remote Solaris machine, <PATH> is the directory, <NAME> and
<NEWNAME> are the file to be renamed and its new name:

Move `/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NAME>' to `/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NEWNAME>' failed:
(ftp-error Renaming FTP Error: "---> RNFR /<PATH>/<NAME>"
/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NAME> /<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NEWNAME>)

Copy sometimes works (but not recursively), but rename does not.

Sometimes the rename _deletes the original_ without creating the new-name
file. After trying to copy a subdirectory fails, all copies of normal files
fail also, with this error message: (ftp-error FTP Error: BINARY
failed: ---> TYPE I)

There is no problem renaming and copying on the local machine. I guess this
is a problem with ange-ftp?

Any idea what is wrong?

 - Drew

RE: ange-ftp pb renaming files

[Drew Adams]

Trying again.

Do you use Dired (ange-ftp) between Windows and Unix (Solaris, in my case)?
Any idea what the problem I'm having might be?

Ftp rename works in a Windows command-prompt window with no problem, but I
cannot get rename to work in Dired.

Thanks,

  Drew

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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:05 PM
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Subject: ange-ftp pb renaming files


I'm using Emacs 20.7.3 on Windows.

I access a remote directory on a Solaris machine in Dired. When I try to
move (rename) marked files I always get errors like the following, where
<MACHINE> is the remote Solaris machine, <PATH> is the directory, <NAME> and
<NEWNAME> are the file to be renamed and its new name:

Move `/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NAME>' to `/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NEWNAME>' failed:
(ftp-error Renaming FTP Error: "---> RNFR /<PATH>/<NAME>"
/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NAME> /<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NEWNAME>)

Copy sometimes works (but not recursively), but rename does not.

Sometimes the rename _deletes the original_ without creating the new-name
file. After trying to copy a subdirectory fails, all copies of normal files
fail also, with this error message: (ftp-error FTP Error: BINARY
failed: ---> TYPE I)

There is no problem renaming and copying on the local machine. I guess this
is a problem with ange-ftp?

Any idea what is wrong?

 - Drew

Re: ange-ftp pb renaming files

[Kevin Rodgers]

Drew Adams wrote:
 > I'm using Emacs 20.7.3 on Windows.
 >
 > I access a remote directory on a Solaris machine in Dired. When I try to
 > move (rename) marked files I always get errors like the following, where
 > <MACHINE> is the remote Solaris machine, <PATH> is the directory, <NAME> and
 > <NEWNAME> are the file to be renamed and its new name:
 >
 > Move `/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NAME>' to `/<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NEWNAME>' failed:
 > (ftp-error Renaming FTP Error: "---> RNFR /<PATH>/<NAME>"
 > /<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NAME> /<MACHINE>:/<PATH>/<NEWNAME>)
 >
 > Copy sometimes works (but not recursively), but rename does not.
 >
 > Sometimes the rename _deletes the original_ without creating the new-name
 > file. After trying to copy a subdirectory fails, all copies of normal files
 > fail also, with this error message: (ftp-error FTP Error: BINARY
 > failed: ---> TYPE I)
 >
 > There is no problem renaming and copying on the local machine. I guess this
 > is a problem with ange-ftp?

You might want to try upgrading to Emacs 21.3, which was released
almost a year and a half ago (and almost 3 years after 20.7) and which
contains numerous changes to ange-ftp.el since 20.7.

But I suspect the problem is between the Windows ftp client and the
Solaris ftp server.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers