Re: [h-e-w] Ange-ftp, Win2000

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

"Milliken, Peter" wrote:
> 
> As you periodically have to do, I just had to re-image my Win2000 disk. In
> the process of reloading everything I have discovered the ange-ftp nolonger
> works. I use cygwin and bash. I made the mistake of blowing away my snapshot
> Cygwin directory so I decided to download the latest. The ftp program
> supplied with inetutils uses the MDTM command (sets the date and time stamp)
> - according to an email I found using Google, "most implementations of FTP
> don't implement mdtm". I have posted a bug report to Cygwin on it.
> 
> If I follow the FAQ, it provides an ftp.exe - the error I get using this is:
> 
> byte-code: Removing old name: permission denied, c:/tmp/ange-ftp1748ecY
> 
> I have my ange-ftp-tmp-name-template set to "c:/tmp/ange-ftp".
> 
> This has all worked before (well, not with the ftp from the FAQ :-)), so I
> am confused as to the permission denied message.
> 
> Anyone got any clues that might help me out? :-) In the meantime, I hope I
> have a backup snapshot of the previous Cygwin I used at home, but it'll have
> to wait until then, meantime I'll have to edit my files without using Emacs
> :-(


Have you tried the standard Windows ftp?  I think that should work, more
or less, probably without any special configuration.  I can access
remote directories OK, and from the directory I can access files,
although recently I seem not to be able to access remote files
directly.  I haven't yet figured out what is causing that, but since ftp
access is on the way out here for security reasons I may just switch to
some other mechanism, such as tramp.

[BTW, c:/tmp does exist, doesn't it.  It's not a standard Windows
directory.]

Francis