tramp (2.0.12); Strange error message; no password prompt

[Rainer Thiel]

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I am using tramp 2.0.12.  The local machine is a Notebook with Windows
98 (cygwin installed) where connections with plink work as expected when
run from a shell prompt.  The remote machine is
<applin.hrz.uni-marburg.de>, an application server of Marburg University
(Germany) run under Unix.  My username on that machine is thielr.

Problem description:

When trying to access a file in a subdirectory on my home directory on
the server specified above, I try to do as follows:

C-x C-f /plink:address@hidden:thiel/Temp/Hotels-Bonn.txt RET

(The file I am trying to access is named 'Hotels-Bonn.txt' and lives in
the directory 'Temp' which is inside the directory 'thiel' which is in
my home directory on the Server.)

When doing so, I get the following message in the minibuffer:

tramp: Looking for Are you sure you want to continue connecting
(yes/no)\?

Answering either 'yes' or 'no' has no obvious effect.  Especially, I
don't get a prompt for the password needed to connect to the server (I
did get a password prompt with previous versions of tramp, I think 2.0.3
or 2.04, without being able to actually access the remote file).

After a while, a debugger message (which I do not understand) 
appears.  Since it appears to contain control characters, I enclose it as 
attachment1.txt.

>> attachment1.txt

In another attempt to access the same file in the same way, I also found
another buffer with the following messages:

---
The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
think it is.
The server's key fingerprint is:
1024 8c:65:66:63:20:75:bd:61:3d:14:79:9d:60:0a:c3:73
If you trust this host, enter "y" to add the key to
PuTTY's cache and carry on connecting.
If you want to carry on connecting just once, without
adding the key to the cache, enter "n".
If you do not trust this host, press Return to abandon the
connection.
Store key in cache? (y/n)
---

(The buffer didn't make itself visible while trying to connect.)

Another debug-buffer (which I don't understand either) also contains 
control characters and is therefore appended as attachment2.txt.

>> attachment2.txt

Hope this helps to understand the problem ...

Best,

Rainer Thiel

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Rainer Thiel
FB 10, Klass. Phil. - D-35032 Marburg, Germany (EU)
address@hidden
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~thielr/

attachment1.txt
Description: Text document

attachment2.txt
Description: Text document