* Robert Kiesling (Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:57:32 -0400 (EDT)) > > * Andrew DeFaria (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:19:00 -0700) > > > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > > > sftp gives you a familiar FTP shell; it is not just a command you run > > > I understand that. > > > > you can list the files on the remote system and make decisions about > > > > what files you want instead of requiring that knowledge beforehand > > > Simple. Just ssh <remotemachine> ls /path. > > > > Andrew, please, stop it. Do you really don't understand the difference > > between a simple command line tool like scp and a client that offers > > extended functionality?! > > I should know better than to get involved with a budding flame war > like this'un.
This is no "flaming war". It's just nonsense to say "everything I can do with foo I can do with bar, too". Of course you can do everything you can do with mutt also with telnet to port 110. It's not /what/ you can do but /how/. > What, "extended functionality," are you referring to, Jason R. DePriest described the difference between a simple command you run and a SFTP/SCP client quite well in [1]. If you still don't know what he's talking about, I refer you to the man page of yafc[2] or lftp[3] for example. > besides a graphical user interface? GUI? What are you talking about? Thorsten [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/92306 [2] http://yafc.sourceforge.net/manual/index.php [3] http://lftp.yar.ru/lftp-man.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
