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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2001-05-09 15:21:44 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2001-05-09 15:21:44 +0000
commitf3d6f4eefcf665b2dfd78ac2beff5a7fcea7c16a (patch)
treed9f4c79690dfbf9c49004d472033aa639bee77e9 /etc/PROBLEMS
parentc8224de64d911c25779eed0d7b0a0434ec4ebfc2 (diff)
Document problems with lukemftp.
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@@ -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