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) I'm afraid this had no effect. Following this is my current "ftp" buffer. Note that I'm still using Cygwin "ftp". There had been some mention of moving that out of the way, but I found that demonstrated even more bizarre behavior. It presented dialogs like "ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org is not a pty? kill?". I eventually ^g-ed it when it seemed to be doing nothing. However, when I set up to set "efs-use-passive-mode" in my "custom.el", I thought to look in my init.el to see if I was doing anything efs-related. I noticed that I was setting the following two variables: (setq efs-disable-netrc-security-check t) (setq efs-treat-crlf-as-nl t) When I commented these out and restarted, I was actually able to complete the "Update Package Index" operation. I wasn't able to do it before. It said "Updated package-get database" in the message area. However, doing either "List and Install" or "Update Installed Packages" fails with the same error as usual. I also got prompted about the permissions on my $HOME/.netrc, which is understandable. ------------------ open ftp.xemacs.org Connected to xemacs.org. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server (Xemacs FTP Archives) [207.96.122.9] quote user "anonymous" ftp> ftp> 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. ftp> ftp> quote pass Turtle Power! 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply. ftp> ftp> hash Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark). ftp> ftp> passive Passive mode on. ftp> ftp> quote pwd 257 "/" is current directory. ftp> ftp> quote syst 215 UNIX Type: L8 ftp> ftp> quote cwd /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp/ 550 /pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp/: Not a directory ftp> ftp> quote site idle 500 'SITE IDLE' not understood. ftp> ftp> quote cwd /pub/xemacs/packages/ 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ftp> ls "-al" /tmp/dmkarr/efsbYAmrk 227 Entering Passive Mode (207,96,122,9,203,88). 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list 226 Transfer complete. ftp> ftp> ------------------ -- =================================================================== David M. Karr ; Best Consulting dmkarr(a)earthlink.net ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004)