Gruss bug team: not a bug, really, but I have my dired switches set to "-abl", but the ftp I'm connecting to: denmark% ftp ftp194.pair.com Connected to isris.pair.com. 220 ftp194.pair.com NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready. Name (ftp194.pair.com:turner): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. only allows a subset of ls switches, so when I connect with efs I see: ftp> ls -abl 200 PORT command successful. 504 Only ls flags accepted are -C, -F, -l, -t, -r, -1, -S, -L, -R, and -p. now I could easily live without the -b option, but they don't even allow -a, which I definitely want for normal dired buffers I looked around in the efs customize options but didn't see a way to set ls switches specifically for efs clearly the remote system is broken, but what's the best way to work around it, other than setting dired's ls switches for this machine? thanks -- John A. Turner, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Blue Sky Studios, 44 S. Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601 http://www.blueskystudios.com/ (914) 259-6319 Emacs : XEmacs 21.5 (beta1) "anise" [Lucid] (mips-sgi-irix6.5) of Mon Jun 25 2001 on denmark Package: efs efs believes that the host type of ftp194.pair.com is unix. current state: ============== (setq efs-auto-version "1.20pre1/1.8" efs-cu-version "1.20pre1/1.12" efs-defun-version "1.20pre1/1.1" efs-dired-version "1.20pre1/1.32" efs-dump-version "1.20pre1/1.2" efs-fnh-version "1.20pre1/1.4" efs-netrc-version "1.20pre1/1.2" efs-ovwrt-version "1.20pre1/1.3" efs-report-version "1.20pre2/1.10" efs-version "1.20pre1/1.63" efs-x19.15-version "1.20pre1/1.2" efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil efs-anonymous-umask nil efs-auto-save 1 efs-auto-save-remotely nil efs-backup-by-copying nil efs-binary-file-host-regexp nil efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|t?gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|sit\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|[jm]pg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\|lib\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\|T?GZ\\|[JM]PG\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$" efs-buffer-name-case nil efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil efs-debug-ftp-connection nil efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t efs-ding-on-umask-failure t efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil efs-expire-ftp-buffers t efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v") efs-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *" efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *" efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil efs-generate-anonymous-password t efs-hash-mark-size 1024 efs-high-security-hosts nil efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil efs-local-apollo-unix nil efs-ls-cache-max 5 efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix dumb-apollo-unix super-dumb-unix) 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