From d2df61b3cc35f297aeebb4a308fc90bb5fba0c7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jacob Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:09:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update faq-pscp-ascii. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@3509 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/faq.but | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 389f7cc3..80d02da3 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.48 2003/10/14 19:57:50 jacob Exp $ +\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.49 2003/10/15 12:09:24 jacob Exp $ \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ @@ -148,14 +148,15 @@ anyone else wants to try it. \S{faq-pscp-ascii}{Question} Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in ASCII mode? -Unfortunately not. This is a limitation of the file transfer -protocols: the SCP and SFTP protocols have no notion of transferring -a file in anything other than binary mode. +Unfortunately not. -SFTP is designed to be extensible, so it's possible that an -extension might be proposed at some later date that implements ASCII -transfer. But the PuTTY team can't do anything about it until that -happens. +Until recently, this was a limitation of the file transfer protocols: +the SCP and SFTP protocols had no notion of transferring a file in +anything other than binary mode. (This is still true of SCP.) + +The current draft protocol spec of SFTP proposes a means of +implementing ASCII transfer. At some point PSCP/PSFTP may implement +this proposal. \H{faq-ports} Ports to other operating systems -- 2.11.0