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  1. Article: 12916 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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  3. From: Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de (Ralf Hildebrandt)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  5. Subject: Re: transfering files securely (encryption ?)
  6. Date: 30 Oct 2001 08:27:58 GMT
  7. Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
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  15. On 29 Oct 2001 19:47:11 GMT, Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
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  17. >Cygwin on Windows does allow OpenSSH to be used there.  But it does
  18. >not address the lack of support in the SFTP protocol for handling
  19. >the differences between Stream-Binary, Stream-ASCII, Stream-EBCDIC,
  20. >Stream-Unicode, and various Record based file formats used on various
  21. >operating systems.  SFTP treats everything as Stream-Binary no matter
  22. >what.  
  23.  
  24. This restriction was never a problem for me. I just write the stuff the way
  25. it should appear on the target box.
  26. YMMV.
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