Re: tramp (2.1.6-pre); ssh problems from cygwin to Linux

[Michael Albinus]

"emacs user" <address@hidden> writes:

> thanks for looking into this.  when I press ? in dired after teh
> attempt to copy the file, I get this explanation of the error:
>
> Copy [-p] `/ssh:address@hidden:/home/me/.dvipsrc' to `/home/me/.dvipsrc'
> failed:
> (file-error . touch failed)
>
> Copy [-p] failed for 1 of 1 file
>       Wed Mar  1 02:03:15 2006        Buffer `me'
>
> does this help?

Yes, indeed. Tramp tried to modify the time stamp of the local file
copy with the command "touch". This didn't work; likely Tramp didn't
find the "touch" command in your Cygwin environment. Could you check
this?

Best regards, Michael.