Ben> i've never seen problems from the attempt to cwd to a file. Ben> this probably has nothing to do with things, but i had Ben> problems awhile ago with efs until applying the attached. APA> Hello Ben, APA> have you sent this patch to the maintainer of EFS APA> Author version: 1.19 2000-03-27: Mike Sperber APA> <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; APA> also? Michael> No. EFS reports should *always* go to: Michael> efs-bugs(a)hplb.hpl.hp.com Michael> via M-x efs-report-bug Michael> due to the fact that EFS bug reports rarely contain Michael> enough information to be acted upon without the Michael> information provided by it. I don't care that much about Michael> mail addressed to me personally. Michael> Before the NT folks yell at me again for not blindly Michael> applying every patch coming my way (I *did* put up a test Michael> snapshot way before the release), let me note that the Michael> CWD hackery is in place to work around a bug in wu-ftpd Michael> 2.6, which means just about every other ftp server in the Michael> universe. Therefore, I'll need some time to assess and Michael> test (!) any fix for this I come up with. <voice="very soft"> Well Michael, will you call me a pushy guy if I ask again about the status of a patch to dired which I submitted 1999-08-16 (http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-patches/199908/msg00033.html). I asked you about it privately 2000-02-17: I asked again about it's status 2000-04-02: http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/200004/msg00013.html Guess what I am about to ask this time? I think I don't even dare to ask ... Adrian </voice> Michael> -- Michael> Cheers =8-} Mike Michael> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla