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From: "Doug Keller" <dkeller@VNET.IBM.COM>
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To: bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US (Barry A. Warsaw)
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Subject: Re: EFS to a Win95 box using Hummingbird Ftpd?
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Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 >
 > Hummingbird's Exceed (Win95/NT X server) product comes with an ftpd
 > that seems to work well, however efs can't quite grok the output
 > lines.  Seems that the -l listing gives lines that look like:
 >
 > -rwx------ 1  staff      47797 Jun 10 13:49 BOOTLOG.TXT
 > -rwx------ 1  staff      92870 Jul 11  1995 COMMAND.COM
 >
 > I get the following error message:
 >
 > Line has too few fields: -rwx------ 1  staff      47797 Jun 10 13:49 BOOTLOG.TXT

"ls -l" does the same thing ftp'ing from Linux to AIX, I don't get the
the message, EFS just thinks everything is owned by user "staff".

 > This comes from prim/sort.el because efs is telling sort that there
 > are 9 fields, when clearly there are only 8.
 >
 > It seems like it should be possible to teach efs/dired to understand
 > these lines, but I'm not quite One with efs-pc.el.  Does anybody have
 > a patch?  If not, I'll work one up, but it'll be a week or so...

doug

