[ On Saturday, March 10, 2001 at 16:42:52 (-0500), Bob Babcock wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ASCII Files
>
> To be blunt, why are the programs that implement the ssh protocol so stupid?
> Ftp solved this problem years ago by making ascii transfers part of the
> protocol. Apparently ssh doesn't do this, but that doesn't stop an ssh
> program from doing the trivial line termination translations when it sends a
> file. All that would be needed are commands or checkboxes for, say,
> "binary", "to-unix", "to-dos" and "to-mac". Auto-sensing is a little harder,
> and I don't know if an ssh program can tell what OS is running on the other
> end.
Well, to be blunt the file transfer protocol and programs are absolutely
NO place to put conversion routines. Do them right once in a proper set
of utilities for each relevant platform and be done with it
--
Greg A. Woods
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