Kirk Wolf wrote:
In the wild, scp and sftp are binary protocols. Most implementations don't do any conversion for either.
sftp is modeled on ftp where there has always been the switch between text and image (binary).
IBM chose to make sftp binary (but there is a switch in the z/OS sftp client to do conversion) and for scp (on both the z/OS client and server) to always do conversion.
Perfectly technically feasible and perfectly tone deaf. It should have been the other way around. In fact, it is. OMVS sftp has the text/binary switch. On the other hand, scp, which possesses the -r (recursive directory/subdir copy) is crippled on OMVS by being only text mode. How absurd and illogical and flying in the face of universal usage of scp outside OMVS. I would post a summary of our community conversation on this point over the past few days on the m...@openbsd.org list for laughs but I don't want to expose IBM to their kidding :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
