From f3d6f4eefcf665b2dfd78ac2beff5a7fcea7c16a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:21:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document problems with lukemftp. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 5a9cd82d16b..1ad301645a2 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -699,6 +699,19 @@ release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler and the default CFLAGS. +* Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. + +If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not +representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the +ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.3 +with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other systems as well. To +avoid this problem, switch to using the standard ftp client. On a +Debian system, type + + update-alternatives --config ftpd + +and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. + * On Windows 95/98/ME, subprocesses do not terminate properly. This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems -- 2.39.5