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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] sftp rename?


From: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] sftp rename?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:52:31 +0100
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Brian May wrote:

> Why is sftp needed when there was/is already scp?

scp is based on rcp and has annoying problems with funny filenames.  The
protocol has been frozen years ago; you can't transmit any file
attributes except mode bits, and error handling is *extremely* poor.




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