Of course. This is the buffer from my W32 Emacs. The buffer is essentially the same when I use Emacs on UNIX.
This is the result of doing open-file on /ftp:userfoo@foohost.bar.company.com:/home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote
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Invalid help command foo.
open
foohost.bar.company.comConnected to
foohost.bar.company.com.
220-QTCP at FOOHOST.
220 Connection will close if idle more than 5 minutes.
user "userfoo" Turtle Power!
331 Enter password.
230 USERFOO logged on.
hash
Hash mark printing On ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
dir /home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote/ c:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp50768Hh
200 PORT subcommand request successful.
125-NAMEFMT set to 1.
125 List started.
dir /home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote/ c:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp50768Hh
250 List completed.
ftp: 91 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 91000.00Kbytes/sec.
200 PORT subcommand request successful.
125 List started.
quote mdtm /home/prodjava/start_batch_PostureNote/
250 List completed.
ftp: 91 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 91000.00Kbytes/sec.
500 Subcommand MDTM not valid.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Michael Albinus
<michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
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.