NightStrike wrote: > 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.
Precisely. I am talking to a legacy non-dos non-unix system, and the conversion is nontrivial. But the FTP server on the other side knows exactly what to do. Anything else is more trouble. Andre DeFaria wrote: >Or just stay in "Unix mode"... ;-) I wish. Entertaining as all this discussion is, the original point remains: There is a bug in the FTP delivered in inetutils 1.5-4. I regret not making it clear up front that non-FTP solutions aren't feasible. --paulr -- 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/
