This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.2 (beta37) "Pan" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin) of Fri Nov 17 2000 on PASTON configured using `configure -with-png -with-xpm --site-includes=/usr/local/include --with-dragndrop --cflags '-g -O'' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: xemacs -q C-x C-f blah＠blah.com:/ * blah(a)blah.com * seems not a pty. Kill? (y or n) (Doesn't even have to be a real host) Works fine using my 22.2.b35 build in the same environment. Recent keystrokes: button1 button1up C-x C-f up C-a C-l / C-k l o v e d a d a ＠ b r a c n BS k n e l l . b t . c o . u k : / RET y M-x s u b TAB BS BS BS b u TAB C-g misc- user Recent messages (most recent first): Parsing /home/philipa/.mailrc... Loading mail-abbrevs...done Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading emacsbug...done Quit Loading emacsbug... Making completion list... Quit *ftp lovedada(a)bracknell.bt.co.uk* seems not a pty. Kill? (y or n) Yes *ftp lovedada(a)bracknell.bt.co.uk* seems not a pty. Kill? (y or n)