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calbloke@yahoo.com (andrew) writes:

> I can get plink to work in a command window  but  when I try through
> emacs, I am prompted for the password 4 times  before the connection
> process fails

I think that's because plink requires you to send \r\n after the
password, but \n (without \r) after subsequent commands.  The CVS
version of Tramp already includes this modification.

Do you want to be my guinea pig to test it?

I already have another guinea pig, but there there are other
problems...

kai
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