RE: solving the SFTP text mode issue

[Richard Whalen <Whalenr%process.com@localhost>]

> 
> As for record-based text file formats... The basic assumption 
> of SFTP is
> that a file is a single binary block of data that may be 
> manipulated however
> one wants. I simply don't see how this can be reconciled with 
> record-based
> text files. SFTP simply wasn't designed with that in mind, 
> and I for one
> wouldn't like to see the protocol retrofitted with alien concepts.
> 

Then SFTP does not define a file Transfer protocol, it defines a file Access
protocol.