Re: external methods not working on cygwin emacs

[James Yoo]

I would love to check out a dev copy from cvs... except I am stuck
behind a mega-corp firewall and cannot reach external servers except
thru http... :(

On 5/25/06, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
> "James Yoo" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi James,
>
> > new version of emacs fresh from cvs compiled on cygwin...
> >
> > ssh works with tramp but is slow for large files, but rsync, scp, etc does not
> > work.  we get a "login failed" message... but it seems like the tramp process
> > is dying before the login attempt... dunno.
>
> I confirm that Tramp 2.1.5 does not work with out-of-band methods
> under Cygwin. Using CVS Tramp, there are no problems.
>
> Unfortunately, there are non-trivial changes in Tramp since the
> release of 2.1.5. So it might hard to extract a patch.
>
> Could you consider to check Tramp from CVS? Furthermore, I'm quite
> optimistic that Tramp 2.1.6 can be released soon. There are still some
> items on the todo list, but they don't look critical.
>
> Best regards, Michael.