Re: [h-e-w] Re: ange-ftp not working this AM

[Guy Worthington]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:02:32PM +0100, Uday S. Reddy wrote:
> Jeff Rancier writes:
> 
> > (1) ange-ftp works
> > (2) I download some utilities from cygwin, not explicitly ftp, but ftp gets 
> > downloaded (typically from the command line I prefer ncftp).
> > (3) ange-ftp doesn't work.
> > (4) I rename /usr/bin/ftp.exe to /usr/bin/ftp.tmp
> > (5) ange-ftp works
> 
> 
> I now explicitly specify the path name of Windows ftp for ange-ftp.
> 
I can't remember who donated this code snippet but thankyou:


;;; if using cygwin ftp (we probably are since cyg-path is first in
;;; exec-path), then fix up a problem with NTemacs and cygwin-1.3.2
;;; Alternatively, you might try this 
;;; (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "C:\\WINNT\\SYSTEM32\\FTP.EXE")
(setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args
      (list "-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" ""))


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