[Info-vax] FTP/SSL from OpenVMS (client) to Unix Filezilla (server) failure

[Bob Koehler]

In article <a2f9f$5034ee5f$5ed43c14$24821 at cache80.multikabel.net>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> Years back I tried to use SFTP on VMS. It wasn't a success, SCP worked 
> much better. I'm sure that at the time SFTP transferred in ASCII mode, 
> now I read that it is transferring in binary mode, very odd.

   SFTP originally did not have an ASCII mode.  I just sent a bunch of
   bytes from one computer to the other and you got to figure out
   what to do with them after they got there.