[Info-vax] Potential loss of data problem in sftp client in TCP/IP Services ?

[Ken Fairfield]

On Monday, March 12, 2012 8:12:48 AM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> I am experiencing a file truncation problem with a TCP/IP engineering
> image version of the TCP/IP Services sftp client and I am wondering
> if anyone here can reproduce it.
> 
> Try using the sftp client to send something small (so that it's easy to
> check; I am using my login.com) to a Linux sftp server.
> 
> When I do this (both in "ascii dos" mode and binary mode) the last
> few dozen bytes of my login.com are lost during transfer.

I don't understand this.  Granted, I don't have access to
a VMS sftp client or server anymore, but on my RHEL 5.5 server,
the sftp client knows nothing of the ftp mode commands like 
"binary", "image", "ascii", etc...  I thought these were 
simply dropped from sftp.

   Regards, Ken