bug in scp (OpenSSH)

Scott Packard packard at mail2.jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Sep 7 09:59:36 EST 2001


I'm afraid I disagree.  I like the scp progress info.
To a naive user it let's them know that at least 
something is happening.  The advanced user knows
enough to turn it off, IMO.

Regards, Scott

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Dave Dykstra wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:44:33 -0500
> From: Dave Dykstra <dwd at bell-labs.com>
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: bug in scp (OpenSSH)
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:42:11PM -0400, Erik Benner wrote:
> > I like the command line option to turn it off, or better yet a compile
> > option to toggle the default and a command line to toggle as well. Should
> > the toggle be for the bar or the throughput update?
> 
> I don't think scp should print any progress information by default.
> 
> - Dave Dykstra
> 




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