On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Paul Stevenson wrote:
[...]
> I try to get a file from a remote machine with ssh2. ssh-agent is
> such that I can do this transparently from the command line, but I get
> 'End of file during parsing'
[...]
> $ ( echo /bin;echo /usr/bin;echo /usr/sbin;echo /usr/local/bin;echo
> /usr/ccs/bin;echo /local/bin;echo /local/freeware/bin;echo
> /local/gnu/bin;echo /usr/freeware/bin;echo /usr/pkg/bin ) | while read
> d; do if test -x $d/ksh -a -f $d/ksh; then echo $d/ksh; break; fi; done
TRAMP looks for a suitable remote shell.
> ^D/bin/ksh # Starting remote shell `^D/bin/ksh' for tilde
The remote system spits out some *very* odd characters. The '^D^H^H'
don't belong there.
This confuses TRAMP, which breaks in horrible ways as it tries to cope.
If you find out where those characters come from, things should improve.
I think.
Daniel
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