Re: tramp (2.1.6-pre); ssh problems from cygwin to Linux

[emacs user]

touch seems to be available, at least under bash it is:

address@hidden:~ $ which touch
/bin/touch
address@hidden:~ $ touch .dvipsrc
address@hidden:~ $

any other way I can check this?


> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> To: "emacs user" <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: tramp (2.1.6-pre); ssh problems from cygwin to Linux
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:39:42 +0100
>
> "emacs user" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > thanks for looking into this.  when I press ? in dired after teh
> > attempt to copy the file, I get this explanation of the error:
> >
> > Copy [-p] `/ssh:address@hidden:/home/me/.dvipsrc' to `/home/me/.dvipsrc'
> > failed:
> > (file-error . touch failed)
> >
> > Copy [-p] failed for 1 of 1 file
> >    Wed Mar  1 02:03:15 2006        Buffer `me'
> >
> > does this help?
>
> Yes, indeed. Tramp tried to modify the time stamp of the local file
> copy with the command "touch". This didn't work; likely Tramp didn't
> find the "touch" command in your Cygwin environment. Could you check
> this?
>
> Best regards, Michael.

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