[MLUG] Re: scp between unix and windows

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I decided to write to the author of WinSCP about the scp ascii file
transfer issue (see below).  The same problem comes up when you do file
transfers by samba -- it's a straight binary transfer.  So there is one
good thing about ftp after all.  :-)  Why did DOS have to come up with its
own standard for ascii files?!?  --Mike

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:39:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: Martin Prikryl <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Subject: WinSCP for ASCII transfers

Martin--

I love your WinSCP program -- very nice work!  It really makes file
transfers easy and secure.

I have a suggestion for a feature I would love to see in WinSCP:

When I use WinSCP to transfer ascii files between Windows and unix (e.g.,
Solaris), the files are transferred exactly "as is" so that CR/LF
translation doesn't take place (unlike FTP ascii mode).  So ascii files
need to be repaired after they are transferred (e.g., using unix2dos or
dos2unix).  It would be great if WinSCP could do the CR/LF translation
automatically.  It could be implemented by using three modes in WinSCP --
binary, ascii and automatic (with binary as the default, as it is now).
In automatic mode, translation would be based on filename extensions and
files with certain extensions (e.g., .txt, .text, .html, .htm, .ps) would
be treated as ascii while all others would be treated as binary.

This feature would be a great help because WinSCP transfers are almost
always between unix and Windows machines, so the conversion of text files
is a very common problem for WinSCP users.

If WinSCP already has this functionality, I hope you'll tell me how I can
access it.  If it doesn't have it already, I recommend that you add my
suggestion to the WinSCP "wish list."

Regards and thanks,

Mike

-- 
Michael B. Miller, M.S., Ph.D., M.P.E.
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