I neglected to mention when I sent this earlier, that GNU Emacs will
display the buffer anyway in spite of the error message, however
XEmacs will not.
> Enter your bug report in this message, including as much detail as you
> possibly can about the problem, what you did to cause it and what the local
> and remote machines are.
>
> If you can give a simple set of instructions to make this bug happen reliably,
> please include those. Thank you for helping kill bugs in TRAMP.
>
>
> This is a problem in both GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
>
> /r@scp:server:/path/to/file/file.pm
>
> when /path/to/file/file.pm is 0444 and I am not the owner or group
> owner, but am a member of the group, an error is thrown (?). In XEmacs,
> the error says:
> Specified time is not representable
>
> in GNU Emacs the error is:
> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
> I have included the information for both of the emacsen I tried this
> on.
>
>
> Emacs : GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
> of Thu Jul 6 2000 on zarquon
> Package: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $)
>
> Emacs : XEmacs 21.2 (patch 34) "Molpe" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux) of Wed May 31 2000
>on zarquon
> Package: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $)
>
>
> current state:
> ==============
> (setq
> tramp-ls-command nil
> tramp-current-method nil
> tramp-current-user nil
> tramp-current-host nil
> tramp-auto-save-directory nil
> tramp-default-method "rcp"
> tramp-rsh-end-of-line "\n"
> tramp-remote-path '("/bin" "/usr/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin"
> "/usr/ccs/bin" "/local/bin" "/local/freeware/bin"
> "/local/gnu/bin" "/usr/freeware/bin")
> tramp-login-prompt-regexp ".*ogin: *$"
> tramp-password-prompt-regexp "^.*\\([pP]assword\\|passphrase.*\\): ? *$"
> tramp-wrong-passwd-regexp "^.*\\(Permission denied.\\|Login [Ii]ncorrect\\|Received
>signal [0-9]+\\|Connection \\(refused\\|closed\\)\\|Sorry, try again.\\).*$"
> tramp-temp-name-prefix "tramp."
> tramp-file-name-structure
>'("\\`/r\\(@\\([a-z0-9]+\\)\\)?:\\(\\([a-z0-9_#]+\\)@\\)?\\([a-z0-9.-]+\\):\\(.*\\)\\'"
> 2 4 5 6)
> tramp-file-name-regexp "\\`/r[@:]"
> tramp-make-tramp-file-format "/r@%m:%u@%h:%p"
> tramp-end-of-output "/////"
> shell-prompt-pattern "^[^#$%>\n]*[#$%>] *"
> )
>
> --
> __
> / / (_)__ __ ____ __
> / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a
> /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
