Subject: bug#4042: 23.0.94; ftp problem in emacsW32

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:34:50 +0200

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Xah Lee<[email-masked]> wrote:
> am having problems using ftp in emacsW32.
>
> Basically, when i try opening
> /ftp:[email-masked]:/httpdocs/
>
> emacs prompt for password, then after i hit Enter, emacs stuck there.
> Switching to “*Messages*” shows nothing relevant. Switching to
> “*ftp [email-masked]*” shows empty buffer.
>
> any idea how to debug this?
>
> Carbon emacs (emacs22) on my OSX 10.4.* works ok.
>
> GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) of 2009-05-28 on
> LENNART-69DE564 (patched)

The patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32 comes with an ftp programs that
has worked better for me than the one included in Windows. I have got
no bug reports on this, but it might be that program that is at fault
here. Or it might be some changes I have made in that part of Emacs.

Could you please first try starting from

   emacs -Q

and reproduce the problem? That will use the ftp program that comes
with Windows.