--On Monday, August 26, 2002 9:02 PM +0200 Administrateur(a)SLASH.dyndns.org 
wrote:
 When I try to update my packages index, XEmacs displays a dialog box
 with this message:
 *ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org* seems not a pty. Kill?
 if I say Yes, XEmacs kills the buffer. If I say No, the buffer is not
 killed but I can't access it.
 Thanks for this great soft and for your help 
You're probably using an ftp client (perhaps the cygwin ftp client) that 
doesn't produce any prompt message if it's input is not a tty.  When efs 
starts the ftp client it waits for output from it and after a while it 
gives up and produces this error message.  I've fixed it by customizing 
efs-ftp-program-args to '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v"
"-p").  The important option 
is -p which tells the cygwin ftp client to produce a prompt even if not 
attached to a tty.
Mike Alexander                <mailto:mta@arbortext.com>
Arbortext, Inc.               +1-734-997-0200