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

[Dirk Munk]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't agree, because that would be a binary transfer. At the time I 
read an O'Reilly book on SSH, and it clearly stated that only ASCII 
transfers were possible. Great for text files, not usable for binaries, 
including JPG's etc. , at least not on VMS or between Unix and Windows 
because of the <lf> to <lf><cr> conversion.