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23.3; Can't visit VMS file from Windows Emacs 23.3.1

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Carroll, Tom" <TCarroll <at> ap.org>
Subject: bug#6019: closed (Re: bug#9315: 23.3; Can't visit VMS file from
 Windows Emacs 23.3.1)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:17:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#9315: 23.1; ange-ftp with VAX

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 6019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Alan.Grunwald <at> tatasteel.com
Cc: 9315-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9315: 23.3; Can't visit VMS file from Windows Emacs 23.3.1
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:14:46 +0200

Alan.Grunwald <at> tatasteel.com writes:

> I'm running emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw0nt5.1.2600) of 20011-03-10 on
> 3249CTO
>
> If I type C-x C-f /grunwald <at> machin:login.com to edit my login.com on a
> remote VMS system called machin, emacs prompts for my password and then
> fails to open login.com.

Finally, this has been solved in Emacs 24.1. Thanks for your continuous
testing all the proposed patches!

Note, that `ange-ftp-binary-file-name-regexp' is the empty string in
Emacs 24. For proper editing of text files on a remote VMS machine, this
variable must be changed to match binary files.

> Thanks,
> Alan

Best regards, Michael.

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From: "Carroll, Tom" <TCarroll <at> ap.org>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.1; ange-ftp with VAX
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:09:22 -0400

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This is a problem with Emacs 23.1, and NOT with 22.1.1.

Attempting to perform a find-file on a VAX no longer works.  Looking
into the ftp buffer
reveals what appears to be the problem: the syntax of a directory
command is incorrect.

Note that this does not cause Emacs to crash - just to fail to access
remote files.

For example: in connecting to a machine called Pine (not the email
program! - we 
have a tree motif here) with the user tcarroll results in the following:

dir [.".AP:.TCARROLL]"
c:/DOCUME~1/tcarroll/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp3268PtF

The correct syntax is created by Emacs 22.1:

dir AP:[TCARROLL] c:/DOCUME~1/tcarroll/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp2724gSG

I hope you understand VAX file syntax - VAX stuff is pretty far out of
date these days.

By the way, Emacs is fantastic, and as a technology professional I live
half my life in
this software.

Thanks!

Tom


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <f11> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-SPC C-e <escape> 
w <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> C-x C-f C-a C-k <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <S-insert> <return> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <escape> x e m a c s SPC r e p o r t SPC 
b <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g C-h a r e p 
o r t SPC b u g <return> <escape> x r e p o r t SPC 
e m a c s SPC b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Listing /tcarroll <at> pine:/AP:/... [2 times]
Listing /tcarroll <at> pine:/AP:/TCARROLL/... [2 times]
Listing /tcarroll <at> pine:/AP:/... [2 times]
Listing /tcarroll <at> pine:/AP:/TCARROLL/... [2 times]
byte-code: FTP Error: DIR failed: 550 %RMS-F-SYN, file specification
syntax error
Mark set
Listing /tcarroll <at> pine:/AP:/TCARROLL/DOC/... [6 times]
byte-code: FTP Error: DIR failed: 550 %RMS-F-SYN, file specification
syntax error
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