[h-e-w] ange-ftp seems to be expanding local HOME variable in remote path names

[Paul Gatewood]

Whenever I try to use ange-ftp to connect to a remote host, the local HOME
environment variable seems to be getting expanded and prepended (sometimes
several times!) to any remote directory or file names, resulting in a
pathname which does not exist on the remote host.

I've seen various posts about ange-ftp, but none which seem to address this.
Has anyone else had this problem, or does anyone have an idea how to
troubleshoot it?

Thanks for any help.
I would appreciate if you could "cc" any post to my email address address@hidden, since I am still trying to figure out how to view postings!

Here's my setup:
Local OS: Windows XP
emacs version: 21.3.1
remote OS: SunOS
local environment variables:
    HOME=\\CSCSRVMERDSS1\User\paul
    TEMP=c:\temp


I start dired with the argument
  /address@hidden:

The dired buffer which opens shows only
  /address@hidden:/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/export/home/paul:
  /CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/export/home/paul/.: No such file or directory


On the remote machine, my home directory is
  /export/home/paul

On the local (Windows XP) machine, the HOME environment variable is set to
  \\CSCSRVMERDSS1\User\paul


The associated ftp buffer shows:
  Invalid help command foo.
  open daffy
  Connected to daffy.dcapes.csc.com.
  220 Daffy FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
  user "paul" Turtle Power!
  331 Password required for paul.
  230 User paul logged in.
  hash
  Hash mark printing On  ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
  pwd
  257 "/export/home/paul" is current directory.
  ls "-al /CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/export/home/paul/." c:/temp/ange-ftp2700I9W
  200 PORT command successful.
  150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (20.4.114.102,1759) (0 bytes).

  226 ASCII Transfer complete.
  ftp: 109 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 109000.00Kbytes/sec.
  ls "-al /CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/export/home/paul/." c:/temp/ange-ftp2700Omp
  200 PORT command successful.
  150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (20.4.114.102,1760) (0 bytes).

  226 ASCII Transfer complete.
  ftp: 90 bytes received in 0.01Seconds 9.00Kbytes/sec.
  ls "-al /CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/CSCSRVMERDSS1/User/export/home/paul/." c:/temp/ange-ftp2700bwv
  200 PORT command successful.
  150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (20.4.114.102,1761) (0 bytes).

  226 ASCII Transfer complete.
  ftp: 128 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 128000.00Kbytes/sec.





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