>>>> "Mike" == Mike Alexander
<mta(a)arbortext.com> writes: 
Mike> I did some debugging tonight and it appears that this problem is being
Mike> caused by "200 PORT command successful" messages coming from the
Mike> cygwin FTP client after the get command is issued.  EFS was thinking
Mike> that this response meant the get command was done when in fact it had
Mike> only just started.  I fixed it by adding this to my custom.el file:
Mike>  '(efs-skip-msgs-alist
Mike>     (quote (("" . "^110 \\|^125 \\|^150 ")
Mike>     ("^ls \\|^put \\|^get \\|^append \\|passive" .
Mike>        "^500 EPSV not understood")
Mike>     ("^ls \\|^put \\|^get \\|^append " .
Mike>        "^200 PORT command successful"))) t)
Mike> Only the last entry is new.  I have no idea what changed in efs or
Mike> cygwin to make this start failing since I'm pretty sure it worked
Mike> until recently.
I'm afraid I need more data on this one: I've not been able to
reproduce this, neither in passive nor normal mode.  The fix you
suggest is very probably The Wrong Thing.  Could you please do an M-x
efs-report-bug RET after encountering the problem?
-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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