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Re: wu-ftpd tricks ange-ftp into displaying a file as a directory
From: |
Klaus Zeitler |
Subject: |
Re: wu-ftpd tricks ange-ftp into displaying a file as a directory |
Date: |
17 Aug 2001 16:50:45 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
>>>>> writes:
Stefan>
Stefan> And I thought that's what ange-ftp does. At least I've seen it do
Stefan> that sometimes. And wu=ftpd sometimes returns "Total 0" when
Stefan> asked to list "/home/foo/.bashrc/." which also confuses ange-ftp
Stefan> into thinking that .bashrc is a directory (but an empty one this
Stefan> time).
Stefan>
Stefan> I have a patch that recognizes this special "Total 0" output and
Stefan> treats it accordingly, but it hasn't been committed to Emacs' CVS
Stefan> repository because it's not clear whether some other ftp server
Stefan> might return the same output for genuine empty directories.
Stefan>
could you post this patch nevertheless. I'm getting bitten by this ftp problem
more and more often.
Thanks
Klaus
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