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

[Dan O'Reilly <dano%process.com@localhost>]

SCP = RCP on steroids

Therefore, is it unreasonable to assume that sftp would be more robust to
be able to handle all types of file formats, not just those common to the
UNIX world?  The root problem is that scp/sftp (in fact, all of SSH, for
that matter) is VERY UNIX-centric, and unfortunately, that's not the total
state of the world...

At 12:15 PM 5/10/2002, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 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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