RE: "On the other hand, scp, which possesses the -r (recursive directory/subdir copy)..."
recent versions of OpenSSH sftp client now support recursive directory processing. This includes IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH 1.3 and Co:Z SFTP 3.5.1 which are both based on OpenSSH 6.4p1. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > Kirk Wolf wrote: > >> In the wild, scp and sftp are binary protocols. Most implementations >> don't >> do any conversion for either. >> > > sftp is modeled on ftp where there has always been the switch between text > and image (binary). > > IBM chose to make sftp binary (but there is a switch in the z/OS sftp >> client to do conversion) and for scp (on both the z/OS client and server) >> to always do conversion. >> > > Perfectly technically feasible and perfectly tone deaf. It should have > been the other way around. In fact, it is. > OMVS sftp has the text/binary switch. On the other hand, scp, which > possesses the -r (recursive directory/subdir copy) > is crippled on OMVS by being only text mode. How absurd and illogical and > flying in the face of universal usage of scp > outside OMVS. > > I would post a summary of our community conversation on this point over > the past few days on the [email protected] > list for laughs but I don't want to expose IBM to their kidding :) > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
