[Elisp-code-efs] Re: EFS 1.23 bug: EFS, lukemftp and hosts that don't support extended modes

[Michael Sperber]

>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Mewburn <address@hidden> writes:

Luke> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:08:25PM +0100, Michael Sperber wrote:
Luke>   | Joachim> My ftp client is lukemftp, version 1.5.
Luke>   | 
Luke>   | Ah.  This is a mess.  The interaction with lukemftp looks like this:
Luke>   | 
Luke>   | ftp> ls
Luke>   | 500 Unknown command.
Luke>   | 227 Entering Passive Mode (129,128,5,190,169,64)
Luke>   | 
Luke>   | I dare say that "Unknown command" confuses not just EFS, but also
Luke>   | human users: since lukemftp issues a command secretly, it should also
Luke>   | eat the response.  I have no idea how to work around this, since 500
Luke>   | may be a genuine error in a circumstance like this.  (The
Luke>   | Heimdal ftp client attempts extended passive, too, but discards the
Luke>   | 500 response, and thus works fine with EFS.)
Luke>   | 
Luke>   | Hi Luke, maybe this can be fixed in lukemftp?

Luke> Please try the latest version -- it has been renamed to tnftp -- which
Luke> can be found at:
Luke>   ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/tnftp-20050103.tar.gz
Luke> (PGP signature
Luke>   ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/tnftp-20050103.tar.gz.asc
Luke> )

Thanks---unfortunately, that has the exact same problem.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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