On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:20:37 -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote:

>Kirk Wolf wrote:
>> BTW: the scp included in IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH always does ASCII-EBCDIC
>> conversion.
>
>Well, Kirk, you've answered my question. Indeed, the z/OS OpenSSH User's Guide 
>Version 2 Release 2 SC27-6806-00 says:
>
>    scp assumes that files are text. Files copied between EBCDIC and ASCII 
> platforms are converted.
>
>OpenSSH scp for the entire rest of the computing universe assumes all 
>transfers are binary, and IBM has recoded it to
>assume everything is text.
>
>*Thunk* (banging head against keyboard)
> 
IBM's sftp does binary, at least by default.  I understand there's a client 
command
to select ASCII<->EBCDIC.

I hate EBCDIC!

-- gil

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