Re: [h-e-w] Problems with ange ftp

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

Michael W Daniels wrote:
> 
> At 10:21 PM 1/29/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >I foolishly deleted the posts about problems with ange-ftp here, and
> >then, of course, found that I'm having problems with ange-ftp.  When I
> >try to find-file on a remote file, all I get is a listing of that file
> >in the remote directory.  If I move to the file in the listing and
> >type 'f', Emacs tells me the file no longer exists, and that I should
> >type 'g' to update the listing.  Of course, the file is still there,
> >but I can't open it.
> 
> I've had this problem under both 20 and 21, with Win98 and WinXP.
> 
> One can get around it by opening the directory in dired, i.e. when you want
> to find
> 
> /address@hidden:/path/file.ext
> 
> try
> 
> /address@hidden:/path
> 
> instead and then open the file from the resulting dired buffer. I've found
> that this always works whenever giving the full file name to C-x C-f fails.


I have also had this problem for some time under Win NT, but it seems to
be fixed (to my great relief) in the current pretest version of Emacs
21.2.

Francis