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Re: Wanted: Help isolating FTP problem
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: Wanted: Help isolating FTP problem |
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:52:02 +0100 |
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"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:
> When I position the cursor on the (DIRED display) www line and hit return, I
> expect it to give me a directory listing of the contents of that directory.
> It does not! Instead it says "no file on this line".
>
> If I use find file, that does not work either, it gets stuck on the www and
> says "no such directory". There is clearly a directory there with lots of
> stuff in it, though.
>
> Here is the display from DIRED:
> /xyz@www.decisionchannel.com:/:
> 01-28-03 03:07PM <DIR> cases
> 01-16-03 07:37PM <DIR> database
> 02-09-02 03:19PM <DIR> logs
> 11-05-02 11:51AM <DIR> MSFTPSVC15
> 10-11-02 03:18PM <DIR> www
This appear to be two completely separate problems. Hm. But maybe
you can kill two flies with one stroke¹ by frobbing the variables
ange-ftp-dumb-unix-host-regexp and/or ange-ftp-dumb-host-types.
The dired problem comes from the strange directory listing format.
Dired uses the variable dired-move-to-filename-regexp to find the
filename, and that expects the date to be right before the filename.
It's unclear to me where the find-file problem comes from. That
would have to be investigated further.
¹ I wonder what the English version of this idiom is?
dict.leo.org... Ah! To kill two birds with one stone. It seems
the English are somewhat more fond of bigger game :-)
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