Re: no ASCII support in sftp

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 04/09/05 

Date: 09 Apr 2005 14:39:42 GMT

On 2005-04-08, Jack Patteeuw <jjpatteeuw@nospam.net> wrote:
> Yes, I know ASCII not in sftp (why it is not there I'll never understand).
>
> Is the standards committee (which ever one it is that control ssh and
> these utilities) likely to approve this sometime in the next year or so?

There's provision for in in the latest draft protocol spec:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-08.txt
(look for "SSH_FXF_TEXT"). 

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