Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37633:fa0afa395c91
Document problems with lukemftp.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 09 May 2001 15:21:44 +0000 |
| parents | 3454051c553d |
| children | cf324803e6ca |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Wed May 09 15:13:33 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Wed May 09 15:21:44 2001 +0000 @@ -699,6 +699,19 @@ another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler and the default CFLAGS. +* Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. + +If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not +representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the +ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.3 +with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other systems as well. To +avoid this problem, switch to using the standard ftp client. On a +Debian system, type + + update-alternatives --config ftpd + +and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. + * On Windows 95/98/ME, subprocesses do not terminate properly. This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems