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

[Henry Crun]

On 15/03/12 20:58, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Bob Koehler<koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> More specifically, ftp knows about 36 bit systems. At least
> it used to have the options needed.
>
> -- glen
also:
s/bread/bred/ -- look it up

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