From: Daniel P. <da...@ri...> - 2002-01-25 05:42:20
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Steve Youngs wrote: > |--==> "DP" == Daniel Pittman <da...@ri...> writes: > > DP> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Steve Youngs wrote: > >>What is Tramp supposed to do if it can't find 'mimencode'? > > DP> Tell you so with an error message that is at least vaguely > DP> comprehensible. Did it actually manage the first? IIRC it used to hang doing that but I think that Kai solved that, or maybe I did. Anyway, did it tell you what broke? [...] > DP> Oh, and if it's a common place to look, like a standard OS path > DP> or, say, something as popular as SourceForge, submit a patch to > DP> add it to the distribution. :) > > Couldn't find it. SourceForge shell access has a 30 minute idle > timeout and 'find' hadn't found it in 30 minutes (told you it'd take a > long long time). That's why I just gave up and copied the dang file > there. Do they supply nohup? Er, hacked together Perl that does a pair of fork() operations? Maybe those let you manage it. Um, but wouldn't you, like, limit it to /usr, dramatically reducing the search space or is SF set up very oddly? Daniel -- Using English spelling rules, 'fish' could be spelled 'ghoti' -- 'gh' as in 'cough', 'o' as in 'women', and 'ti' as in 'station'. -- George Bernard Shaw |