Re: Weird behaviour when entering the filename

[Francis Moreau]

Hello Michael,

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
> Your current problem is that Tramp has chosen an inappropriate encoding
> mechanism on your remote host:
>
>> 18:22:43.801802 tramp-send-command (6) # perl -e 'binmode STDIN; binmode 
>> STDOUT; print pack(q{u*}, join q{}, <>)' < /etc/passwd 2>/dev/null; echo 
>> tramp_exit_status $?
>> 18:22:43.853588 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) #
>>
>> tramp_exit_status 127
>> ///7918cfc694ee6398d9db1b7991544b9a#$
>> 18:22:43.854092 tramp-barf-unless-okay (1) # File error: Encoding remote 
>> file failed
>
> I'm a little bit concerned about the ^H chars, they shouldn't be there.
>
> On busybox, there shall be uuencode/uudecode commands (at least my
> BusyBox v1.10.2 has them). Could you, please, check, whether they are on
> your device?

I checked and uuencode/uudecode are not installed, they've been
probably disabled during the busybux configuration.

FYI, perl is not installed either.

-- 
Francis