Re: shell-command-on-region takes 60 secs and huge memory for simple process

David> Signaling: (error "Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp' not readable") David> signal(error ("Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp' not readable")) APA> Odd, I was able to update the index just now. APA> Steve, what do you make of this? SY> Odd indeed. Try: SY> (setq efs-use-passive-mode t) David> I'm afraid this had no effect. Following this is my David> current "ftp" buffer. Note that I'm still using Cygwin David> "ftp". There had been some mention of moving that out of David> the way, but I found that demonstrated even more bizarre David> behavior. It presented dialogs like "ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org is David> not a pty? kill?". I eventually ^g-ed it when it seemed to David> be doing nothing. David> However, when I set up to set "efs-use-passive-mode" in my David> "custom.el", I thought to look in my init.el to see if I David> was doing anything efs-related. I noticed that I was David> setting the following two variables: David> (setq efs-disable-netrc-security-check t) David> (setq efs-treat-crlf-as-nl t) David> When I commented these out and restarted, I was actually David> able to complete the "Update Package Index" operation. I David> wasn't able to do it before. It said "Updated package-get David> database" in the message area. However, doing either "List David> and Install" or "Update Installed Packages" fails with the David> same error as usual. I also got prompted about the David> permissions on my $HOME/.netrc, which is understandable. Hi David, here are my customized settings for efs, a bit editted: 11 lines matching \befs- in buffer .emacs-i586-pc-win32. 262: '(efs-nslookup-program "nslookup") 263: '(efs-disable-netrc-security-check t t) 266: '(efs-gateway-type (quote (proxy "ftp" ("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")))) 319: '(efs-nslookup-threshold 10000) 347: '(efs-generate-anonymous-password "aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com") 363: '(efs-gateway-host "engine.ecf.teradyne.com") 390: '(efs-use-passive-mode nil) 442: '(efs-umask 22) 654:;;; '(efs-ftp-program-name "C:\\WinNT\\System32\\Ftp.exe") 655:;;; '(efs-gateway-tmp-name-template "c:/tmp/efs") 657:;;; '(efs-tmp-name-template "c:/tmp/efs") If that does not help, I'd suggest you try to get ftp from ftp.xemacs.org working outside of XEmacs. Does cygwin ftp work from a bash shell? Does MS ftp work from a CMD box? Good Luck, Adrian David> ------------------ David> open ftp.xemacs.org David> Connected to xemacs.org. David> 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server (Xemacs FTP Archives) [207.96.122.9] David> quote user "anonymous" ftp> ftp> 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. ftp> ftp> quote pass Turtle Power! David> 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply. ftp> ftp> hash David> Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark). ftp> ftp> passive David> Passive mode on. ftp> ftp> quote pwd David> 257 "/" is current directory. ftp> ftp> quote syst David> 215 UNIX Type: L8 ftp> ftp> quote cwd /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp/ David> 550 /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp/: Not a directory ftp> ftp> quote site idle David> 500 'SITE IDLE' not understood. ftp> ftp> quote cwd /pub/xemacs/packages/ David> 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ftp> ls "-al" /tmp/dmkarr/efsbYAmrk David> 227 Entering Passive Mode (207,96,122,9,203,88). David> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list David> 226 Transfer complete. ftp> ftp> David> ------------------ David> -- David> =================================================================== David> David M. Karr ; Best Consulting David> dmkarr(a)earthlink.net ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/