On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:06:34 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:

> >  beautiful EBCDIC encoding and the podunk, 7-bit, toy-computer ASCII
>encoding
>
>Poking the I HATE EBCDIC bear? :)
> 
If the reader ignores the bigotry, he stated a true fact about ASCII.

But it's irrelevant since ssh (and I assume scp) don't use ASCII.

>When I wrote up some doc showing application programmers how to setup
>mainframe SSH keys, the example showed scp to transfer the text public
>key to the non-mainframe box.  It was less error-prone since the
>translation to ASCII was built in and (I think) impossible to turn off.
> 
And thus an impediment to transferring a pax file.

-- gil

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