Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Did you read the article about Goodman?
Yes, very amusing, but not apt. scp has been around for decades and its usage uniformly (outside OMVS) has been for
mixed binary
and textual data. There is no switch to differentiate, ergo it views everything
as binary data.
You can invoke Goodman but it's only a nerdly joke w/r/t to the subject at hand. It's not relevant to a piece of
software with millions
of users which has worn a deep groove of usage across two decades. IBM's diddling it to automatically do char
translation without
recourse is absurd.
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www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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