Re: shell-command-on-region takes 60 secs and huge memory for simple process

APA> David, APA> what's the version of EFS you have installed? APA> Consider upgrading to APA> Latest Installed APA> Package name Vers. Vers. Description APA> =============================================================================== APA> <lines deleted by Adrian> APA> efs 1.26 1.26 Treat files on remote systems the same as local files. APA> If you're a couple of revs behind. APA> Do is as suggested under 7. in APA> http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html Well, I went ahead and just upgraded to 21.4.4, following the instructions on the web site. I got to "List & Install", and still got a backtrace, which follows. Versions: emacs-version: "21.4 (patch 4) \"Artificial Intelligence\" XEmacs Lucid" efs-version: "1.20pre2/1.63" It seems a little odd that the tar file is named "efs-1.26-pkg.tar.gz", but it contained version 1.20pre2. What does the "1.63" refer to? ------------------------------ Signaling: (error "Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp' not readable") signal(error ("Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp' not readable")) cerror("Package-get database file `%s' not readable" "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") apply(cerror "Package-get database file `%s' not readable" "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") error("Package-get database file `%s' not readable" "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") package-get-update-base(nil t) package-get-require-base(t) #<compiled-function nil "...(137)" [pui-info-buffer pui-menu buffer-read-only sep-string start outbuf package-get-require-base t get-buffer-create "===============================================================================\n" nil message "Creating package list ..." sit-for 0 buffer-disable-undo erase-buffer kill-all-local-variables use-local-map list-packages-mode "Packages" "\nWarning: No download sites specified. Package index may be out of date.\n If you intend to install packages, specify download sites first.\n\n" " Latest Installed\n Package name Vers. Vers. Description\n" " Latest\n Package name Vers. Description\n" mapcar #<compiled-function ... "...(204)" ... 10> sort copy-sequence #<compiled-function ... "...(10)" ... 3> documentation set-buffer-modified-p pop-to-buffer delete-other-windows featurep menubar set-buffer-menubar add-submenu clear-message pui-display-keymap major-mode mode-name truncate-lines pack! age-get-remote pui-list-verbose package-get-base pui-selected-packages pui-deleted-packages current-menubar mode-popup-menu] 6 ("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/package-ui.elc" . 13436) nil>() call-interactively(pui-list-packages) ------------------------------ The ftp buffer contents follows. It seems like it thinks that "package-index.LATEST.pgp" is a directory. -------------------------------- 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> hash ftp> Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark). 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/efsbgA6ob 200 PORT command successful. 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)