On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robinson, Paul T (NonStop) wrote: > >>> From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> Or how 'bout.... <drum roll> >>> >>> scp! >> >> Probably would not work in my case, the other end of the connection is a >> non-Windows box that cares deeply about the difference between ascii and >> binary files--not clear to me that scp makes a distinction. Also that box >> has a split personality (which is why we need the 'quote' command in ftp >> sometimes, to tell it which personality to use) and I don't see any way for >> scp to handle that. > > Seems to me like this would be pretty easy to test...
The only purpose of an ascii transfer is to convert text conventions (line endings, ascii/ebdcii encoding, etc). With scp, this does not happen, as scp is a drop in replacement for cp/rcp. Instead, you have to combine it with a dos2unix command of some sort to do the convesion yourself. -- 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/
