Re: ange-ftp does not wait for file download to complete

[Lennart Borgman]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> When retrieving a file through ftp with something like
>
>    C-x C-f Find file: 
> /ftp:address@hidden:/some-path/the-file.html
>
> most of the times for me the file buffer will be empty.
>
> I do not understand what is happening. I added some (message ...) 
> statements for tracing. Here is what I got in the message buffer:
...
> I have been testing this with the ftp program that comes with w2k, the 
> one mentioned at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/AngeFtp and 
> also ncftp from Cygwin. I am doing this on windows 2000:
>
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2006-03-08 on W2ONE


I must have made some mistake when testing. Today I have no problem at 
all when using the ftp program suggested at EmacsWiki.

Probably I was setting the wrong variable when testing yesterday. Sorry 
for the noice. However maybe the problem with Windows ftp should be 
mentioned in the manual?