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

[Piet v. O. <pi...@cs...>]

>>>>> Andrew Choi <ak...@sh...> (AC) writes:

AC> Hi Gil and Piet,
AC> Thank you for the bug report and response.  I believe the problem is
AC> in fact caused by my patch

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

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

AC>   /* #define HAVE_PTYS */

AC> to

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

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

Thanks, it works.
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