scp remote path specification

[Markus Friedl]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:43:28PM -0600, Frank Tobin wrote:
> If you _ever_ want to do this sort of thing in the future, you need to at
> least let your design account for it.  For example, let the remote-path
> specification be put into the config file, where you can do host-specific
> options, instead of an argument, where it is much more difficult to do so.

there is no config file for scp and ssh does not know anything about
scp. scp is just a random protocol over a ssh channel.

ssh2 subsystems should fix this problem, but you have to write
a scp client for the SFTP-protocol first. who wants to? this would
help many people.

-markus