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Re: Extended attributes and archives (tar, cpio, mpax, makefs...)



> sftp might be a bit more complicated,

It's a hell of a lot more complicated.

At least, unless scp is a lot more than just rcp over ssh, which is
what I thought it was, basically.

> but at least some an implementation PoV, scp is just crap.

So one particular implementation of it is crap.  That's a reason to not
use that implementation.  It is not a reason to throw out the protocol
baby with the implementation bathwater.

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