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. --bug report follows this line-- getting the latest version as of this morning, some files in the lisp directory are not compiled... is that OK? Emacs : GNU Emacs 21.0.103.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2001-05-09 on beach.weizmann.ac.il Package: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 2.29 2001/06/03 18:41:26 grossjoh Exp $) current state: ============== (setq tramp-ls-command nil tramp-test-groks-nt nil tramp-file-exists-command nil tramp-current-multi-method nil tramp-current-method nil tramp-current-user nil tramp-current-host nil tramp-auto-save-directory nil tramp-default-method "rcp" tramp-rsh-end-of-line "\n" tramp-remote-path '("/bin" "/usr/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/ccs/bin" "/local/bin" "/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin" "/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin") tramp-login-prompt-regexp ".*ogin: *$" tramp-password-prompt-regexp "^.*\\([pP]assword\\|passphrase.*\\): ? *$" tramp-wrong-passwd-regexp "^.*\\(Permission denied.\\|Login [Ii]ncorrect\\|Received signal [0-9]+\\|Connection \\(refused\\|closed\\)\\|Sorry, try again.\\|Name or service not known\\).*$" tramp-temp-name-prefix "tramp." tramp-file-name-structure '("\\`/r\\(@\\([a-zA-Z0-9]+\\)\\)?:\\(\\([-a-zA-Z0-9_#]+\\)@\\)?\\([-a-zA-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 "^[^#$%>\n]*[#$%>] *" backup-by-copying nil backup-by-copying-when-linked nil backup-by-copying-when-mismatch nil backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch 200 )