I have seen a problem with ftp on w32 which I have not had time to
report before. The problem is that if I make a small pause for some
minutes then ftp hangs. Looks like there perhaps is some problem with
the ftp process. Here is a more detailed description:
I have downloaded the ftp program mentioned on
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/AngeFtp and my
ange-ftp-ftp-program-name is c:/dl/ftp-for-win32/Release/ftp.exe. I am
using w2k on this pc. My CVS Emacs is from 2006-11-03.
I open a remote file with the name
"/ftp:address@hidden:/htdocs/somepath/index.html". After
doing the first changes to the remote file point is on line 79 in the
buffer "*ftp address@hidden".
Now I wait maybe 10 min. Then I try again to change the file. Now
Emacs freezes right after the first character, but C-g helps and the
screen gets updated again. Looking in the ftp buffer point is still on
line 79 right after the prompt. However now there is some text after
the prompt:
ftp> quote mdtm /htdocs/somepath/index.html
If I in the window showing the ftp buffer now press up arrow I get the
error message:
Wrong type argument: processp, nil