Re: efs fails to connect to any hosts

APA> Now I know what happened: Skip had his signature inserted before APA> all the good stuff. I don't expect needing to read on beyond APA> signatures in mails. Yeah, I figured nobody would know who the mail was from if I stuck it at the end of such a long message... Martin> large number of lisp shadows. He has a whole lisp directory in Martin> ~/emacs that might interfere with the working of efs. APA> That's a good point. I made another pass through my ~/emacs directory and zapped a lot of stuff I either never use anymore or that have more recent versions in XEmacs (like tramp). Martin> Another point is that his xemacs is compiled on OSX version Martin> 10.2, but he is now running 10.2.1. APA> Skip, could you take a look at this possibility? Kinda weird, but I took a look. When I got my Powerbook it came with a 10.2.1 CD, which I immediately used to update the system (before I did any fink stuff), so I don't think I would have built it under 10.2. Still, I tried "fink update xemacs xemacs-sumo-pkg" this morning. This failed sometime late in the install. Rather than pursue it, I deleted the fink xemacs*, then downloaded the 21.5.9 tarball and the sumo package and installed from source. The install was uneventful, but the result is the same: *ftp admin＠localhost* seems not a pty. Kill? (y or n) APA> What about this from the original mail? APA> ("-i" "-u" "-g" "-v" . "-A") APA> Wrong type argument: characterp, "-i" Red herring. I originally muffed the append of the -A flag to efs-ftp-program-args. APA> This problem was probably just an incorrect customization which is APA> fixed now? Just an earlier setq. I'm trying a "fink update-all" now (which looks like it won't update anything significant) and ran a MacOSX software update (just stuffit expander was updated). Once that's complete I'll try rebuilding. Last night I tried stepping through (efs-start-process). It appears that the ftp program exits almost immediately after startup. -- Skip Montanaro - skip(a)pobox.com http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/