Re: Do we have standards available for scp ??

[RJ Atkinson <rja%extremenetworks.com@localhost>]

That this level of complexity exists in something this simple
really adds moment to the notion of documenting the existing
practice, IMHO.

On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 12:54  PM, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:39:41AM -0700, Daniel Prevett wrote:
> > I was under the impression that scp2 was a truncated sftp client, and 
> > that
> > scp1 was rcp over ssh.
>
> yes, now
> 	scp2 means the scp binary from SSH.com's 1.2.x software.
> 	scp1 means the scp binary from SSH.com's 2.x and 3.x software.
>
> > I know that OpenSSH's implementation of scp can
> > use either an ssh1 or ssh2 connection, but that everyone else's
> > implementation of scp that uses ssh2 uses the sftp subsystem.  Could we
> > clarify which one we are talking about here?
>
> it's what's called scp1 SSH.com's 1.2.x software.
>
> scp1 speaks RCP.