[h-e-w] ange-ftp and ncftp

[Pirot, Thierry]

        Hello, 

I heard that cygwin's ftp didn't fit with ange-ftp, indeed it crashed my
emacs 20.7 on w2k. 
I turned to window's ftp, to see some other kinds of crashing 
that eventually turned out to come from a -D switch in the dired ls command.

I wonder if it is possible to use cygwin's ncftp with ange-ftp ?
Here is what resulted from my trial: 

ftp buffer: ---------------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/ncftp: illegal option -- i
Usage:  ncftp [-u user] [<host> | <URL>]

Program version:  NcFTP 3.0.2/501 October 19 2000, 04:47 AM             
Library version:  LibNcFTP 3.0.4 (October 18, 2000)
System:           CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.1.8(0.34/3/2) 2001-01-31 10:08
i6...
This is a freeware program by Mike Gleason (address@hidden).
Use ncftpget and ncftpput for command-line FTP.

open easydoc

Backtrace buffer: --------------------------------------------
Signaling: (file-error "writing to process" "invalid argument" #<process
*ftp address@hidden>)
  send-string(#<process *ftp address@hidden> "open easydoc\n")
  ange-ftp-raw-send-cmd(#<process *ftp address@hidden> "open easydoc"
"Opening FTP connection to easydoc")
  ange-ftp-normal-login("easydoc" "giropar" "********" "" #<process *ftp
address@hidden>)
  ange-ftp-get-process("easydoc" "giropar")
  ange-ftp-send-cmd("easydoc" "giropar" (dir "/"
"c:/DOCUME~1/PirotT/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftpa1441om" "-al") "Listing
/address@hidden:/")
  ange-ftp-ls("/address@hidden:/" "-al" t t)
  ange-ftp-get-files("/address@hidden:/" t)
  ange-ftp-get-file-entry("/address@hidden:/")
  ange-ftp-file-directory-p("/address@hidden:/")
  apply(ange-ftp-file-directory-p "/address@hidden:/")
  ange-ftp-hook-function(file-directory-p "/address@hidden:/")
  file-directory-p("/address@hidden:/")
  find-file-noselect("/address@hidden:/" nil nil 1)
  find-file("/address@hidden:/" 1)
  call-interactively(find-file)

        Thierry.