Re: [MLUG] ascii mode in sftp

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I honestly don't use sftp often so I am not familiar with how perfect it
might be. Didn't mean to hassle you over it. Just happen to think it is
better to teach people to solve a problem than to modify otherwise sane
programs for them. Backwards compatibility is largely a waste. :)

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://www.kavlon.com

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> Why is ascii mode the default in ftp?  Because few people use it?  No.
> Nearly everyone who uses ftp sometimes uses ascii mode.

> That's not a bad suggestion.  Maybe I should learn to accept this new
> approach.  MS should design their programs to cope with unix text.  Right
> now programs like Notepad don't handle it at all.
> 
> Please don't give me the pedantic advice that I shouldn't use Notepad.
> It's not about me.  If it were, you wouldn't be hearing any of this.
> It's about other users.  I want to get them on track as easily as possible
> with minimum investment of my time.
> 
> I might *have* to do that.  My original question was whether sftp has
> simply done away with ascii mode.  I think they have.  No one has given me
> reason to think otherwise.
> 
> Well, good for you, but that doesn't change the fact that there are
> literally thousands of WinNT machines on campus.  All but maybe two of our
> professors has one in his/her office.  All of our grad students use them.
> All of our students use Win machines.  Nearly all faculty use them from
> home.  So ascii transfers between unix and Win will be quite common (if
> people even use unix).  I will tell them this:  When I snap my fingers,
> everyone switch to Linux and leave me alone.  That will only work in my
> dreams.

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