Re: SSH on Z/OS 1.4

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 07/30/05 

Date: 29 Jul 2005 19:40:14 -0400

>>>>> "David" == David <shadoweyez@hotpop.com> writes:

    David> In normal SFTP, ssh'd encrypted version of ftp, there are two
    David> modes of files, ASCI and binary, according to the character
    David> set...

SFTP is not an "SSH encrypted version of FTP". It has nothing at all to
do with FTP; it is a completely separate protocol:

http://www.snailbook.com/docs/sftp.txt

SFTP does have some facility for communicating file encoding attributes
including a notion of "text file," but this is not identical to the FTP
ASCII/binary modes. 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net

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