Re: Trouble getting ange-ftp to work

[daniel]

> I tried the following settings but neither worked (note that the
> second one refers to
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip
> 
> (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/WINDOWS/system32/ftp.exe")
> (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "d:/home/ftp.exe")
> 
> When I try to load the following program into Emacs
> 
> /davin@ftphost.ripway.com:index.php
> 

Davin,

Sounds like index.php is not at the top level of the 'davin' directory. It's 
more likely in /home/users/davin/public_html/index.php and you're trying to get 
it at /home/users/davin/index.php.

gr

daniël


> it opens with an empty file yet the file index.php is known by me to
> be not empty.  Click in the following link to verify that the file is
> not empty:
> 
> http://h1.ripway.com/davin/index.php
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?  I have been using Emacs for 10 years now
> and I have written over 17,000 lines of Elisp code, including one file
> (trashcan.el) that I have submitted to the official Emacs Lisp List at
> Cambridge University.