[ On Sunday, March 11, 2001 at 14:20:05 (-0500), Blue Lang wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ASCII Files
>
> There is no reason not to include these kinds of routines in ssh, except
> for the fact that sftp is not, in any sense, an ftp client. It is an
> interactive wrapper around scp.
Actually it's the other way around now in SSH-2.4.0 -- scp is more of a
wrapper around sftp (though it's not exactly that).
> If someone wanted to write this
> functionality into scp, that would be great. I suggest doing it in open..
IMNSHO anyone who even considers doing such a thing should not be
allowed to write code -- that's the totally wrong approach. As has
already been said, any file transfer program, and in particular any file
transfer protocol, should *NEVER* be allowed to alter the contents of
any file. Furthermore it's much better do build one correct tool to do
data conversions than to spread similar functionality amongst any number
of other tools where it can only rot and/or diverge. Just because FTP
did it doesn't mean it was the right way to do it (or even a good way to
do it). Mistakes are best left in the past.
--
Greg A. Woods
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