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

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Thu Aug 23 09:10:26 EDT 2012


In article <64d7$50360db1$5ed43c14$27172 at cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

   I think the VMS SFTP was trying to look like it was doing binary
   transfers from a Windows system, so text files would contain CRLF
   line separators.

   Other SFTP did nothing with the data.  Transfers between UNIX and
   Windows, for example, would result in the wrong line separators.



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