Re: A text transfer mode is needed for the SSH File Transfer Protocol

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja%darkwing.uoregon.edu@localhost>]

which assumes that sftp should treat text files like ftp does rather than 
like rcp does.

I'm not at all convinced that sftp should do that.

joelja

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Richard Whalen wrote:

> We have had a few customers report problems when transferring text files
> between dissimilar systems with different implementations of the SSH File
> Transfer Protocol.  I believe that these problems would not exist if the
> protocol was able to correctly deal with the differences in the way that
> different systems store text files.
> 
> ----------------------
> Richard Whalen
> Process Software
> 508-879-6994x261
> 

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