Re: [MLUG] ascii mode in sftp

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

(See e-mail below from Martin Přikryl.)  Martin Přikryl, the author of
WinSCP, has agreed to add ascii and automatic modes to future releases of
WinSCP.  I really don't think that will bloat it much.  It's only a few
lines of code to translate CR/LF.  So I think it's a good plan.  Have you
all tried WinSCP yet?  It's pretty nice, but you have to be using Windows
on the client side.  Do they have a similar GUI for SCP for Linux clients?
Would be nice.  --Mike


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Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:02:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[iso-8859-2] Martin Přikryl" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: "[iso-8859-2] Mike Miller" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Subject: [iso-8859-2] Re: WinSCP for ASCII transfers

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Hi Mike!

> 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.

Next version of WinSCP will include ascii file transfer mode. Also
automatic option will be supported.

Have a nice day.

Martin Prikryl
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http://www.martinprikryl.cz/
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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

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