Re: Ange-ftp: Getting files with no extension on dumb hosts

[Michael Albinus]

Eric <etklaus@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,

Hi,

> I'm having trouble using ange-ftp to get files with no extensions from
> a "dumb host". The host doesn't support any flags on ls commands
> (although simply 'ls <filename_filter>' works), so I added it to
> ange's dumb host list.
>
> However, I can't open files without an extension. This seems to be
> because ange treats these as directories and tries to list their
> contents with a DIR command. I looked briefly through the lisp, but
> nothing jumped out at me as an easy way to force ange to treat a
> certain path as a file rather than a directory.

Could you, please, show the contents of the ange ftp buffer? The buffer
is called "*ftp user@host*", user and host being your used names.

Best regards, Michael.