Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Problem with ange-ftp

[Andrew C. <ak...@sh...>]

Hi Gil and Piet,

Thank you for the bug report and response.  I believe the problem is
in fact caused by my patch

  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=257781&forum_id=5272

because it prevents Emacs from using PTY's, which seem to be required
by ange-ftp (see comments in ange-ftp.el).  So if one goes in
s/darwin.h and changes

  /* #define HAVE_PTYS */

to

  #define HAVE_PTYS
  
ange-ftp will work again.  I remember that I needed to disable PTY's
because the implementation on Mac OS X seemed to be losing characters
because of an apparently 1024-character fixed size buffer.  I don't
know whether the problem has been fixed or not but now I can't seem to
find a way to demonstrate this.

My suggestion is to keep PTY's on now and see if anything breaks.
Also see comments in ange-ftp.el for a suggestion for a different fix
using a gateway.

Andrew.