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

[Michael Sperber]

Luke Mewburn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:42:38PM +0100, Michael Sperber wrote:
>   | >>>>> "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.
>
>
> I have fixed the code in the NetBSD ftp client for this, and
> the fix will make it into the next public release of tnftp
> (which is an autoconf-ed portable version of the NetBSD ftp client).
>
>
> I hope that helps, and apologies for the long delay in resolving
> this issue.

Yes, it does.  Many thanks, and sorry for taking so long checking out!

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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