Martin> What jumps out from his report is the large number of lisp
    Martin> shadows. He has a whole lisp directory in ~/emacs that might
    Martin> interfere with the working of efs.
Yes, I do.  I sometimes pick up packages before they are assimilated into
XEmacs.  I then have to figure occasionally what of my stuff that needs to
be tossed out.  This may be such a case.
If I run under "xemacs -q", I get different behavior.  It simply hangs with
the message "Opening FTP connection to localhost..." if I try to visit
/admin@localhost:8021/ (the local Zope ftp listener).  I still see no log
info in the Zope window.
I then tried renaming ~/emacs to ~/emacs- and running xemacs again (without
the -q option).  I am back to the same error message:
    *ftp admin@localhost* seems not a pty. Kill? (y or n)
I will see if rebuilding helps.
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