On 16 Oct 2005, at 17:13, Dave Anderson wrote: >> That being said, FTP is well past the time it was designed for. >> OpenSSH >> is very stable and featurefull. Just make sure it isn't *too* >> featureful >> for what you're doing. > > There _is_ one useful-to-me feature of FTP that I can't find in SCP or > SFTP: any equivalent to 'ascii mode' (I frequently transfer text files > between systems with different end-of-line conventions). Am I just > being blind, or is there really no way to do this?
Surely you want the file to appear at the other end in exactly the same format that it was on your system? This sort of thing is normally a client-program issue. I have interarchy on my mac and it deals with all of that, plus it has a preference for whether or not to convert newlines. Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vanhegan.net/sudoku/ http://weblog.vanhegan.net/
