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

[Bob Koehler]

 On 2012-08-23, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.

   Wouldn't be the first time O'Reilly published a mistake.

   I transfered tons of binary files using SFTP prior to its getting
   an ASCII/binary switch.  Transfers between UNIX and Windows always
   showed line ending problems just like FTP would if I transfered
   them in binary.

   Reminded me of a fellow I worked with a few years earlier, who had
   only Sun and Windows experience, who always insisted "binary always
   works".  He assumed that dos2unix and unix2dos was to be expected.

   He couldn't for the life of him understand the use of site commands
   with Multinet FTP server to get a proper transfer of a UNIX text
   file into a VMS fixed length record format.