Craig Lanning <lanning(a)scra.org&gt; writes: I've been getting this on my laptop at work, running Debian GNU/Linux with an XEmacs fresh from the 21.2 branch of CVS. Freakily, on my box at home, running pretty much the same software as far as I can tell (with the same version of efs, anyway), things work fine. Oddly, on the box that works, in the *ftp...* buffer I can see the CWD attempt failing, but then XEmacs seems to continue and use "ls -l" to look at the file---I seem to remember that's how it's supposed to work. So I'm confused, too. What might be causing this problem? Is there something configurable that might do it? I'm accessing the same ftp site in both cases---ftp.xemacs.org---so it's not a difference in ftp site. If XEmacs calls the ftp program, then that's the same version too, since I'm using unstable Debian on both boxes, and I keep it up to date pretty consistently. A search in www.deja.com brings up someone else who seems to have the same problem: <URL:http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=637844876>;.