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From: Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>
To: muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de
Cc: bwarsaw@python.org, ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Bug in efs (XEmacs 19.15 and XEmacs 20.3 b2)
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In-Reply-To: <muenkel@tnt.uni-hannover.de> Fri, 30 May 1997 09:40:43 +0200
References: <199705291450.QAA14524@daedalus.tnt.uni-hannover.de>
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>    Barry> have some cd's in my .netrc and guess I haven't realized
>    Barry> that they're being silently ignored.
>
>Are you sure? The cd's, bin's and so on in my .netrc crashes efs. I
>can't open any file on any remote host with these lines and that even
>on hosts with no entry in my .netrc.

Try indenting your .netrc entries like so.  I've been doing this for years
now, and efs has never once choked (although your ftp client very likely
will unless you have one that takes on|off arguments to some of the option
toggles.) 


machine prep.ai.mit.edu
	login anonymous
	password friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu 
 	macdef init
		  type binary
		  prompt off
		  hash on
		  quote site umask 000
		  quote site idle
		  cd /pub/gnu 

