RE: [h-e-w] ange-ftp broken in 21.1?

[Stephen Bardsley]

Francis:

Thank you.  Your suggestion to remove all customizations did the trick!

Regards,
Steve

> Stephen Bardsley wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings:
> > 
> > I recently upgraded from emacs 20.7 to 21.1.
> > 
> > I am a big fan of ange-ftp, and have come to depend on it,
> > but it does not seem to work for me in 21.1.  It's fine in
> > 20.7.  I am running Windows2000.
> > 
> > I get the following message in the emacs minibuffer:
> > 
> >   apply: Spawning child process: invalid argument
> > 
> > Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> I would suggest trying removing or ignoring all ange-ftp specific
> customization and ensuring that the standard Microsoft ftp program is
> the one being used.  That arrangement seems to work well for me,
> although I'm running Win NT not 2K.  Actually, there might be a small
> bug in 21.1 that is fixed in the pretest that I am running, but the bug
> I was aware of previously (and I can't remember exactly when) was not
> insuperable.
> 
> Francis
> 
>