From kde-devel  Sun Jan 31 08:05:04 1999
From: Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:05:04 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: kfm symlink-bug
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=91777619708984


Stefan Siegel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i just tried to log on "ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/", using kfm. The
> problem i found:
> All the Files shown by kfm are "unknown symlinks" but they should be
> symlinks
> to folders.
> When clicking on the icons (e.g. informatik) kfm shows an alert-box,
> saying that the file does
> not exist, i have to add a slash in the location line manually, to
> navigate on.
> I think this is a bug which should be solved before 1.1.
>
> Greetings,
>                   Stefan

Aye! I was able to reproduce this problem too.  The links in the ftp
site you mentioned are missing a trailing "/".  This causes kfm to
interpret these links as "unknown file symlinks" instead of "directory
symlinks".   This is a tricky one.

Dawit A.