Re: Wanted: Help isolating FTP problem

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Siegfried,


"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:
> I would really like to use the FTP feature of Emacs to edit this web site
> because that FTP feature is wonderful.
> For some reason, this web site won't let me access any files in the www
> directory using emacs!
>
[...]
> 
> 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

Looks like the default output of Microsofts IIS FTP server.  The
easiest would be to ask the admin for that server to set the IIS
option to output Unix-style directory listings.


Hope this helps, benny