Hi, I am using Emacs on Windows-XP with ange-ftp to edit files on a remote Unix system (SunOS).
When this works, it works great! :-), but there also seem to be phases where Emacs will hang while accessing the remote site with ange-ftp. In fact, Emacs does not totally hang as I can regain control with C-g, but in other respects it behaves as if frozen - I.e. window will not redraw and there's no reponse to key or mouse operations. It's possible that the problem is related to the remote FTP host, or a network or firewall issue (all things I have no control over), however I regularly access the same ftp account with ncftp & ncftpget, without any problems. I've read the FAQ, searched the archives... installed an alternative ftp.exe program, and played with various ange-ftp settings, all to no avail - each time I think it's fixed but the problem always returns eventually. Please help!... Some info on my setup, please ask for anything else: Output of C-u M-x version: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO Snippet from my current ~/.emacs, but I have tried many variations: '(ange-ftp-dumb-unix-host-regexp ".*") '(ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/emacs-21.3/bin/ftp.exe") '(ange-ftp-gateway-ftp-program-name "c:/emacs-21.3/bin/ftp.exe") '(ange-ftp-process-verbose t) '(ange-ftp-retry-time 30) '(ange-ftp-send-hash nil) '(ange-ftp-try-passive-mode nil) With the Windows-XP supplied ftp.exe the freeze is absolute - even C-g will not abort and the emacs task must be killed from the task manager. I am using a replacement ftp.exe, copied to the path shown above, and taken from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip Cheers, -bernie.
