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

[Dirk Munk]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2012-08-22, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> On 2012-08-22 07:13:04 +0000, gopalakrishnan said:
>>>
>>>> I finally got this going and I can transfer files (...but read on).
>>>> We had to include the following rules on the ISA:
>>>
>>> You can continue to pound against incompatible software here, or you can
>>> switch to something that works better (sftp), or you can call HP support
>>> and log a bug and let them sort it out.   Your choice.
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> In the absence of further information, I am assuming you are using
> the TCP/IP sftp client.
>
> Be aware that sftp has undergone incompatible changes in this area
> between versions.
>
> What it actually did in older versions was to convert the file to
> stream-lf internally and send that to the remote server (assuming you
> were sending files _from_ VMS).

So indeed SFTP was uaing ASCII mode. Sending a file to a Windows system 
most likely would have resulted in a <cr><lf> file on the Windows side 
as with normal FTP ASCII transfers.

>
> What it does in recent versions depends on the ascii/binary mode settings
> in use. Note: don't assume that just because (1) the ascii/binary mode
> commands are documented in the sftp online help and (2) are accepted by
> the sftp client, that they actually do anything.
>
> The commands were documented as been available before they actually did
> become available.
>
> Simon.
>