Re: GNU Emacs 21.1 ange-ftp to VMS bug

[Gerd Moellmann]

forrest.cahoon@merrillcorp.com (Forrest Cahoon) writes:

> >From GNU Emacs 21.1:

Please let me say upfront that I don't have much knowledge about VMS
related issues, nor do I know someone offhand who has.

[...]

> 200 Port 9.144 at Host 192.168.0.1 accepted.
> 150 List started.
> 226 Transfer completed.
> ftp> quote mdtm /USERDISK:/FCAHOON/LOGIN.COM

It seems that the `mdtm' is issued by ange-ftp-file-modtime and it
seems that function needs to do the wrong thing with VMS file names.
What the right thing is I don't know, though.

> 550 Unable to find file
> quote mdtm /USERDISK:/FCAHOON/LOGIN.COM
> ftp> 550 Unable to find file
> ftp> quote mdtm /USERDISK:/FCAHOON/LOGIN.COM
> 550 Unable to find file
> quote mdtm /USERDISK:/FCAHOON/LOGIN.COM
> ftp> 550 Unable to find file
> ftp> get USERDISK:[FCAHOON]LOGIN.COM /tmp/ange-ftp51154-W
> 200 Port 9.145 at Host 192.168.0.1 accepted.
> 550 %RMS-E-FNF, file not found

I cannot see a difference in the `get' command between 20 and 21, so I
can only guess that `mdtm' commands in front of the get have some
influence.  Maybe it's worth to make ange-ftp-file-modtime a no-op
and see if the `get' then succeeds.