From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
To: "emacs user" <address@hidden>
CC: address@hidden
Subject: Re: tramp (2.1.6-pre); ssh problems from cygwin to Linux
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:39:42 +0100
"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.