EFS 1.6 bug: bug or not?

Edward Hartnett (ejh@larry.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Thu, 21 Apr 94 16:19:47 -0400 

Fellow efs'ers:

I got a message from a guy suggesting I try to get a package and try
it out. Here's the line from his message:

  Ok, ftp.Lehigh.EDU, file pub/evap/evap-2.x/evap-2.1.tar.Z-beta.

So I used the mouse to grab the machine name from his message, which,
as you can see, has the L in Lehigh and the EDU all in caps.
Everything worked fine, but when I tried to copy a file efs got
confused because it had converted the name of the machine to all
lowercase, but when it tried to copy the file it looked for a buffer
*ftp anonymous@ftp.Lehigh.EDU* and there was none, there was only *ftp
anonymous@ftp.lehigh.edu*

Whether this is a bug or not is a matter of opinion.

The only time I can see it being a problem is for someone new to
ftping and to emacs, who would not be able to notice what the problem
was and would likely get confused and frustarted.


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 19.22.2 of Tue Nov 30 1993 on larry.gsfc.nasa.gov (hpux)
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of ftp.lehigh.edu is unix.

current state:
==============
(setq
     efs-19-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-auto-version "1.6/1.4"
     efs-cp-p-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-cu-version "1.6/1.1"
     efs-defun-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-dired-version "1.6/1.8"
     efs-netrc-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-report-version "1.5/1.1"
     efs-version "1.6/1.11"
     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-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-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
     efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-generate-anonymous-password t
     efs-hash-mark-size 1024
     efs-high-security-hosts nil
     efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-local-apollo-unix nil
     efs-ls-cache-max 5
     efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix super-dumb-unix)
     efs-max-ftp-buffer-size 3000
     efs-maximize-idle nil
     efs-message-interval 0
     efs-nlist-cmd "nlist"
     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-umask nil
     efs-verbose t
     efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
     efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-local-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-local-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-gateway-host nil
     efs-smart-gateway nil
     efs-gateway-program "remsh"
     efs-gateway-program-args nil
     efs-gateway-program-interactive nil
     )