Problem with ange-ftp-date-regexp

[Uday S. Reddy]

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In GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (i386-*-nt4.0.1381)
 of Tue Feb 29 2000 on buffy
configured using `configure NT'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Our file system generates funny group id's (which are NUMERIC) on a
Unix file server when they are accessed via Samba.  Ange-ftp is unable
to parse the ls listings of such files properly because of a bad
regexp used as ange-ftp-date-regexp.  For example, for the following
line,

  -rw-rw-r--   1 udr      13        284509 May 21 00:55 bi-assertion-lan.ps

the regexp interprets "1 udr 13 284509" as matching the date-regexp
and the remainder of the line "May 21 00:55 bi-assertion-lan.ps" as
the file name.  This results in the file being inaccessible when
accessed via ange-ftp.  (This problem does not arise when the file is
accessed on the local file system.)

I have done a temporary fix to the date-regexp for my own use.  But,
the regexp needs to be fixed more generally in the emacs distribution.

Cheers,
Uday Reddy
U.Reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk

Recent input:
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d a r s i return C-a C-SPC C-n C-a C-x C-x C-x C-k 
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