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Re: Draft draft of coming sftp revision...



> Specific comments:
> 5.3 Size
> I think that it needs to state that this is the binary size, and
> that the number of bytes provided when the file is read in TEXT mode may
be
> different (either larger or smaller).

Thanks.  I've updated this section.

> 6.6 Creating and Deleting Directories
> There seems to be a missing "path" between the sentence about
> attributes and "specified the directory to be created."  Also note that an
> error can be returned from an attempt to delete a directory if the user
does
> not have permission for that operation.  Note that some systems may allow
> file creates and deletes in a directory, but not deletion of the actual
> directory due to separation of write access and delete access on the
> directory.

I've reworked this section so it is a little less of a runon
paragraph, and fixed the problems you pointed out.

> In implementing the SSH_FXF_TEXT VMS should be able to seek text files for
> reads with a little bit of work, but seeking a text file for write would
> probably return an error more often than not.  Writes to an existing text
> file when opened in Append mode should not be a problem.

I've added some text about using SSH_FXF_APPEND to append to
text files.

Thanks again for the comments.

- Joseph





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