Re: ange-ftp errors out for some directories

[lawrence mitchell]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Looking at this part of the backtrace,

>       run-hook-with-args-until-success(dired-noselect 
> #("/ftp:homepages.demon.co.uk:/vol2/demon.co.uk/v/e/g/vegetable/" 0 27 nil 27 
> 60 (inhibit-line-move-field-capture t field output rear-nonsticky t) 60 61 
> nil))
>       find-file-noselect("/ftp:homepages.demon.co.uk:~/" nil nil t)
>       find-file("/ftp:homepages.demon.co.uk:~/" t)

> I wonder what is the connection between the file name you opened,
> which seems to be your home dir, and the directory
> /ftp:homepages.demon.co.uk:/vol2/demon.co.uk/v/e/g/vegetable/ for
> which the error occurs.

I believe that /vol2/demon.co.uk/v/e/g/vegetable/ is the absolute
path to the home dir.  The host I'm connecting to is the webpage
upload server of my ISP.  When I log in via command-line ftp, I
get:

| $ ftp homepages.demon.co.uk
| Connected to homepages.demon.co.uk.
| 220 homepages.demon.co.uk FTP server (Demon/Academ/WU [11] Dec 4
| 10:44:41 GMT 2001) ready.
| Name (homepages.demon.co.uk): vegetable
| 331 Password required for vegetable.
| Password:
| 230-User vegetable logged in.  Access restrictions apply.
| 230 Disk usage is 14587117 bytes.  Quota is 20971520 bytes.
| ftp> pwd
| 257 "/vol2/demon.co.uk/v/e/g/vegetable" is current directory.
| ftp>

I'm away from home for a week, and so will find it difficult to
follow up to this quickly.  However, I'll do my best to try and
debug it.

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lawrence mitchell <address@hidden>