On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Robert Forkner wrote:
> I am needing to know if sftp will allow for ASCII file transfers? It seems
> to be defaulting to binary, and I need it to be ASCII for some scripts that
> need uploading. More specifically, I have some users that are using the GUI
> sftp, and their scripts are not working because window appends the '^M"
> escape character on line returns. This is nothing new to ftp, but if I
> could control how it's being uploaded (e.g., ASCII instead of BINARY), then
> my problem should be solved.
this needs to be a FAQ. :) everything in sftp is binary, and it doesn't,
right now, do cr->lf translation.
there are some hacks around for it, but i would just run it thru sed.
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