Re: Additional thoughts on text transfers

[nico <nico%verizon.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Richard Whalen wrote:
> And what kinds of systems have you exchanged text files with?  Ever try VMS?
> The majority of text files on VMS systems are stored as variable length
> record files with implied line separators.  In most files there is a 2 byte
> record length between each record, that does not provide carriage control.

Would not an extension by which the client and server can tell each
other the "type" of a given file suffice? That way the conversions have
to be made before/after the SFTP exchange and there is no need to burden
the protocol with all the issues related to record-oriented files, seek
offset issues, etc...

Nico