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 . . .