Ah! Got it. Now I understand the why. Thank you very much!
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:02:10PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
>
> that's not quite correct.
>
> ssh.com's sftp2 and scp2 use the sftp protocol over ssh protocol v2
>
> openssh's scp uses the rcp protocol over ssh protocol v1 and v2
>
> openssh's sftp uses the sftp protocol over ssh protocol v1 and v2
>
> so if you want to use an openssh client to get files from a
> ssh.com server you have to use 'sftp' since 'scp' does not
> implement the 'sftp' protocol.
>
> however, you can use openssh's sftp in batchmode, see sftp(1).
