Call for testers - Dired

Hello People. I've just uploaded a new Dired package to the 'Pre-Releases' directory on ftp.xemacs.org. The maintainer is looking for feedback, especially from Windows... Michael wants to hear about, not only the bad news, but also the good. Getting The New Dired: ===================== 1) Tools -> Packages -> Add Download Site -> Pre-Releases 2) Tools -> Packages -> List and Install 3) select dired (mouse-2 or RET) 4) Packages -> Install/Remove Selected 5) Re-Start XEmacs. For me, it is Options -> Manage Packages If that method gives you problems (it may do for Windows users), simply download: So, I tried downloading the new packages, and had lot of trouble. This it the messages that I was getting: (2) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (ftp-error FTP Error: list data file C:\windows\TEMP/efsbJBN3H not readable) I eventually tracked it down to 'efs-tmp-name-template' The default value for this variable was "C:\\windows\\TEMP/efs" The problem is that the template C:\windows\TEMP/efs, was interpreted by ftp as c:windowsTEMP/efs. After changing the template to: (setq efs-tmp-name-template "c:/TEMP/efs") the package installer worked fine. So, either efs-temp-name-template needs to be setup differently or it needs to be backquotified before it is given to ftp. I'm using xemacs 21.1.13 on windows 98. -jeff