Report on package efs 1.5

Ken Robinson (Ken.Robinson@serg.cse.unsw.edu.au)
Tue, 22 Feb 1994 01:13:07 +1100 

Dear Ange / Sandy:

The following is not a very good bug report, but I am mailing you in case you
recognize some of the symptoms.

I installed efs and selected (require 'efs-auto) as the means of getting efs
loaded.  In brief testing it seemed that all was OK.  A little later, problems
were observed:

First we seemed to be getting the error message ``No file in line'' when
attempting to find a file in a dired buffer.  This only occurred on some
occasions, but on directories on which it occurred it was consistent.

I then noticed that efs was not loaded.

I noticed the problem noted in efs-auto (although the above problem does not
only occur with Apollo machines) and put in an explicit require of efs, or
manually loaded before fetching a remote file.  Now the behaviour changed as
follows: after ftp-ing and logging in (either anonymous or otherwise), efs
would attempt to list a directory and hang!

Why isn't efs being auto loaded, and why when it is loaded do I get the above
problem?

I'm grateful for any comments

Ken Robinson

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 19.22.1 of Wed Dec  1 1993 on ceres (usg-unix-v)
Package: efs 1.5

current state:
==============
(setq
     efs-19-version "1.5/1.2"
     efs-auto-version "1.5/1.3"
     efs-cu-version "1.5/1.0"
     efs-defun-version "1.5/1.2"
     efs-dired-version "1.5/1.6"
     efs-netrc-version "1.5/1.0"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.5/1.3"
     efs-report-version "1.5/1.0"
     efs-version "1.5/1.7"
     efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
     efs-anonymous-umask nil
     efs-auto-save 0
     efs-auto-save-remotely nil
     efs-backup-by-copying nil
     efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|mpg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
     efs-buffer-name-case nil
     efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil
     efs-default-account nil
     efs-default-password nil
     efs-default-user nil
     efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t
     efs-ding-on-umask-failure t
     efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil
     efs-expire-ftp-buffers t
     efs-fancy-buffer-names "%s@%s"
     efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
     efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
     efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-generate-anonymous-password t
     efs-hash-mark-size 8192
     efs-high-security-hosts nil
     efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-local-apollo-unix nil
     efs-ls-cache-max 3
     efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix super-dumb-unix)
     efs-maximize-idle nil
     efs-message-interval 0
     efs-netrc-filename "~/.netrc"
     efs-nlist-cmd "ls"
     efs-nslookup-on-connect nil
     efs-nslookup-program "nslookup"
     efs-prompt-for-transfer-type nil
     efs-pty-check-retry-time 5
     efs-pty-check-threshold 1000
     efs-retry-time 5
     efs-root-umask nil
     efs-send-hash t
     efs-short-circuit-to-remote-root nil
     efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
     efs-tmp-name-template "/tmp/efs"
     efs-umask nil
     efs-verbose t
     efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
     efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
     )