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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-03-12, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>
>> sftp doesn't have an option to send text files while translating
>> line termination.
>
>
> I just checked on OS-X. I am surprised that there is no apparent comands
> to dictate text or binary transfers.
>

In Unix-land, which is what OS-X basically is, the convention is just to
send the file as a stream of bytes without any internal conversion.

Given all the various possible internal file structures for VMS sequential
files, this is not possible on VMS if you want the file to be usable on
the destination (non-VMS) system.

>
> Does the problem occur on any text file size ? Or only fil sizes larger
> than a certain amount ?

It also fails with my login.com which is about 3 to 4 blocks in size.

Simon.

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