Re: ncftp + ange ftp

[Pierre Lorenzon]

Hi Michael,

Completely clear. Hence the simplest way to solve my problem is
to install the standard ftp client that is not on my system.

Thanks

Regards

Pierre

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: ncftp + ange ftp
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 16:49:55 +0200

> Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
>> Is it possible to configure ange ftp to use ncftp program ? I
>> set ange-ftp-ftp-program-name to ncftp and
>> ange-ftp-ftp-program-args to nil since options for ftp did not
>> seem to be suitable for ncftp. Maybe other flags has to be
>> supplied here. Anyway it does not work as if ange ftp were not
>> able to parse output provided by ncftp.
> 
> Indeed, ncftp does not return error messages as expected by
> ange-ftp. See this:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ncftp / > get xxx
> get xxx: server said: Failed to open file.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ftp> get xxx
> local: xxx remote: xxx
> 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
> 550 Failed to open file.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> So I doubt it will be simple to train ange-ftp understanding ncftp.
> 
>> Regards
>>
>> Pierre 
> 
> Best regards, Michael.