Re: Help test EFS
I've been having trouble with this on a machine running the native build of
XEmacs (from the current CVS trunk) on Windows NT 4.0 using the cygwin ftp client. When I
try to open a file on an FTP server (I've tried several and
it doesn't seem to matter which server) the file is truncated at a random location a
few thousand bytes into the file. If you look at the ftp log everything seems to be ok,
but efs doesn't seem to wait for the file to be transfered before using the result.
I've tried to debug this a bit, but haven't learned very much. Has anyone else
seen problems like this?
I'm connected via an ISDN line so ftp transfers are not too fast. This might have
something to do with it. I'll try it on other machines with faster net connections
and see if that affects things. If I can provide any more information let me know.
Mike Alexander <mailto:mta＠arbortext.com>
Arbortext, Inc. +1-734-997-0200
--On Friday, May 18, 2001 8:37 AM +0200 "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]"
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
Steve Youngs has just released EFS package version 1.25. This is an
experimental prerelease of EFS available as
/ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/efs-1.25-pkg.tar.gz
In order to turn this into an official package release, I urgently
need your help in testing it. I've tested EFS on a number of servers,
but I only have access to Unix machines for client testing. So I
especially need some reports from Windows users, connecting to both
Unix and Windows ftp servers. This is especially as some subtle but
possibly crucial aspects of the EFS<->client interactions have
changed.
I'm slowly working towards a testing suite, but it is not yet done and
the urgency of the XEmacs/Cygwin situation has prompted me to try to
release earlier.
Let me emphasize that, if I cannot get some testing done by the
community, the release will be significantly delayed, as we cannot
risk putting out a faulty EFS to the general user community, given its
current prominent role in the XEmacs package system.
I appreciate your help.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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