EFS 1.15 bug: "Unable to identify remote host type" at ftp.cs.colorado.edu

Ken Olstad (keno@gmidev.globalmt.com)
Mon, 18 May 1998 09:42:26 -0500 

To whom it may concern:



Emacs  : XEmacs 19.15p4 [Lucid] (alpha-dec-osf3.2) of Tue Jun  3 1997 on gmidev
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of ftp.cs.colorado.edu is unknown.

Bug occurred during efs-guess-host-type.

Contents of *ftp anonymous@ftp.cs.colorado.edu*:
Please edit sensitive or irrelevant information.
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open ftp.cs.colorado.edu
Connected to freestuff.cs.colorado.edu.
220 freestuff.cs.colorado.edu FTP server (BeroFTPD 1.0.5(1) Fri May 15 11:54:13 MDT 1998) ready.
ftp> quote user "anonymous"
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
ftp> quote pass  Turtle Power!
230-    Hello gmidev.globalmt.com, you are 8 out of a max of 40 users.
230-
230-    Welcome to the Computer Science Departmental FTP server at the
230-    University of Colorado, Boulder.
230-    Be sure to visit our WWW site, at http://www.cs.colorado.edu
230-
230-    All transfers are logged with your host name and email address.
230-    If you don't like this policy, disconnect now!
230-
230-    If your FTP client crashes or hangs shortly after login, try using a
230-    dash (-) as the first character of your password.  This will turn off
230-    the informational messages which may be confusing your ftp client.
230-
230-    Please e-mail comments, questions, trouble reports, and complaints
230-    to trouble@cs.colorado.edu.  Please drive safely.
230-
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Fri Apr 12 12:48:39 1996 - 765 days ago
230-Please read the file README.users
230-  it was last modified on Tue Mar 11 10:16:07 1997 - 433 days ago
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> quote pwd
257 "." is current directory.
ftp> 

current state:
==============
(setq
 efs-cu-version "1.15/1.12"
 efs-defun-version "1.15/1.1"
 efs-dired-version "1.15/1.32"
 efs-dump-version "1.15/1.1"
 efs-fnh-version "1.15/1.3"
 efs-netrc-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-ovwrt-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-report-version "1.15/1.9"
 efs-version "1.15/1.56"
 efs-x19.15-version "1.15/1.2"
 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-host-regexp nil
 efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|t?gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|sit\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|[jm]pg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\|lib\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\|T?GZ\\|[JM]PG\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
 efs-buffer-name-case nil
 efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil
 efs-debug-ftp-connection 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-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
 efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
 efs-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
 efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
 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 dumb-apollo-unix super-dumb-unix)
 efs-max-ftp-buffer-size 3000
 efs-maximize-idle nil
 efs-message-interval 0
 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-set-modtimes-synchronously nil
 efs-short-circuit-to-remote-root nil
 efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
 efs-text-file-name-regexp ".*"
 efs-treat-crlf-as-nl nil
 efs-umask nil
 efs-use-passive-mode 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-gateway-type nil
 reporter-version "3.2"
 features '(mail-abbrevs sendmail reporter efs-report hmouse-drv hypb hact
	    hhist hversion comint-xemacs efs-dired efs-x19\.15 efs-fnh passwd
	    efs-ovwrt efs-cu efs-netrc efs-defun comint ring efs efs-dump
	    cus-face dired-faces dired-xemacs dired font-lock auto-show
	    fontl-hooks ediff-hook vc-hooks x-iso8859-1 x-menubar mouse
	    mode-motion itimer lisp-mode iso8859-1 page lib-complete custom
	    widget buff-menu derived frame text-props mini-cl cl cl-19
	    backquote lucid-scrollbars cut-buffer lucid-menubars xpm gif
	    motif-dialogs x tty toolbar scrollbar network-streams subprocesses
	    menubar dbm md5 lisp-float-type dialog window-system)
 )