[debbugs-tracker] bug#6019: closed (23.1; ange-ftp with VAX)

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23.3.1
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regarding 23.1; ange-ftp with VAX
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 23.1; ange-ftp with VAX Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:09:22 -0400

This is a problem with Emacs 23.1, and NOT with 22.1.1.

Attempting to perform a find-file on a VAX no longer works.  Looking into the ftp buffer
reveals what appears to be the problem: the syntax of a directory command is incorrect.

Note that this does not cause Emacs to crash - just to fail to access remote files.

For example: in connecting to a machine called Pine (not the email program! - we
have a tree motif here) with the user tcarroll results in the following:

dir [.".AP:.TCARROLL]" c:/DOCUME~1/tcarroll/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp3268PtF

The correct syntax is created by Emacs 22.1:

dir AP:[TCARROLL] c:/DOCUME~1/tcarroll/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp2724gSG

I hope you understand VAX file syntax - VAX stuff is pretty far out of date these days.

By the way, Emacs is fantastic, and as a technology professional I live half my life in
this software.

Thanks!

Tom

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <f11> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-SPC C-e <escape>
w <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> C-x C-f C-a C-k <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <S-insert> <return> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <escape> x e m a c s SPC r e p o r t SPC
b <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g C-h a r e p
o r t SPC b u g <return> <escape> x r e p o r t SPC
e m a c s SPC b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Listing /address@hidden:/AP:/... [2 times]
Listing /address@hidden:/AP:/TCARROLL/... [2 times]
Listing /address@hidden:/AP:/... [2 times]
Listing /address@hidden:/AP:/TCARROLL/... [2 times]
byte-code: FTP Error: DIR failed: 550 %RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error
Mark set
Listing /address@hidden:/AP:/TCARROLL/DOC/... [6 times]
byte-code: FTP Error: DIR failed: 550 %RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux)
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> address@hidden writes:
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> > I'm running emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw0nt5.1.2600) of 20011-03-10 on
> > 3249CTO
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> > If I type C-x C-f /address@hidden:login.com to edit my login.com on a
> > remote VMS system called machin, emacs prompts for my password and then
> > fails to open login.com.
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> Finally, this has been solved in Emacs 24.1. Thanks for your continuous
> testing all the proposed patches!
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> Note, that `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' is the empty string in
> Emacs 24. For proper editing of text files on a remote VMS machine, this
> variable must be changed to match binary files.
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> > Thanks,
> > Alan
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> Best regards, Michael.
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