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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4f5fb97f$0$9212$c3e8da3$12bcf670 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> This is why I am somewhat susprised that sftp doesn't have any of that.

   sftp was born and bread in a land of all byte-stream files.

   I used to work with a programmer who would run around claiming
   "binary always works" for FTP transfers.  He was used to using
   dos2unix and unix2dos after transfering files.

   He also made that claim while we were instructing a user on how
   to use Multinet FTP features to transfer a file from UNIX on to
   a VMS system resulting in a fixed record format file.  Ha.