Re: EFS-1.16/Dired-7.9 problems with FSF GNU Emacs-20.3

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
12 Mar 1999 10:10:49 +0100


>>>>> "KB" =3D=3D Broadey, Kevin M <kevin.broadey@eds.com> writes:

KB> I then did "C-x d user@host:/tmp" to view a remote directory.  "v" an=
d "f"
KB> failed with "No file on this line" despite there being a file on the =
line in
KB> question.  I suspect this is because the locale setting on the remote=

KB> machine was causing the date/time to come out in the En_GB format - <=
date>
KB> <month> <year/time> - instead of En_US/C - <month> <date> <year/time>=
=2E  I
KB> know ange-ftp suffers from this problem, but I though efs had cracked=
 it.
KB> Apparently not.

There's no way to fix it that I know of---EFS needs a list of valid
month names, and there doesn't seem to be a portable way to get it.

KB> So I guess the real question is - how do I go about building efs/dire=
d for
KB> emacs-20.3?

I think the only issue with 20.3 is `characterp', which should be an
alias for `integerp'.  EFS 1.18 (basically done, out one of these
days) doesn't use `characterp' anymore.

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