Re: Additional thoughts on text transfers

To: Richard Whalen <Whalenr%process.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Additional thoughts on text transfers
From: Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 17:38:56 +0100

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:50:05AM -0500, Richard Whalen wrote:
> Since modern day files may be encoded in a variety of textual formats the
> client and server need to come to an agreement on a format when exchanging
> text files.

Modern day files are binary documents (pdf, doc, viruses), so no
conversions is necessary.  SFTP is slim and simple, you can do text
conversion in you client application based on suffix-heuristics,
for example.

References:
- Additional thoughts on text transfers
  - From: Richard Whalen

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