On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 09:35:25 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> >
> >> I thought "sftp" has no ASCII mode. Kirk?
> >>
> >> IBM's sftp in Ported Tools for z/OS does have ascii enablement (for
> >IBM-1047 <-> ISO8859-1 only):
> >
> >- the sftp client has added an "ascii" subcommand
> >
> Yup. Works. (If they can customize it that much, why
> can't they make it work from 3270 OMVS? Or at least
> as long as there's no prompting needed?)
>
>
Hey, that's a great idea :-)
BTW: Dovetailed Technologies will be giving a presentation at SHARE next
month on the new 1.3 release of OpenSSH.
Are you going to be there this year Gil?
> >- the sftp server has a new "SftpServerConvert" option
> >
> "option", not "subcommand". Does that mean it's like a setup
> or PARMLIB option, and can't be controlled by end user?
>
Agreed - its not very useful, and there is no way to remotely control it
inside a session, unlike Co:Z SFTP :-)
>
> I stumbled (GIYF) upon a mention that some sftp software has
> an ASCII-like option. But that does UNIX<-->DOS newline conversion.
> I suppose its network protocol uses network newline conventions
> ('0d0a'x). I see that z/OS sftp ASCII generates '0a'x. Good riddance,
> DOS.
>
> I wonder what PuTTY's PSFTP does?
>
PSFTP has a "text mode" that handles Windows newline conversion.
Co:Z SFTP (client or server) allows you to control line termination rules,
including "RDW", truncation/padding, codepages, etc.
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