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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jjl3pf$6uf$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> 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've seen this as well, but with SCP.  There is no point in worrying 
about it unless it is also present in the latest TCPIP version (unless 
you have support for an older version and want to stick with it).