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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
