Issues with SFTP

[Markus Friedl]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:56:27AM -0500, Whitaker, Kenneth wrote:
>      ascii     Set the "representation type" to "network  ASCII".
>      binary    Set the "representation type" to "image".

but the concept of 'ascii' is unknown to the sftp
client, the server and the protocol. despite it's
make sftp has nothing in common with ftp.

>    verbose   Toggle  verbose  mode.  In   verbose   mode,   all
>                responses from the FTP server are displayed to the
>                user. In addition, if verbose mode is on,  when  a
>                file  transfer completes, statistics regarding the
>                efficiency  of  the  transfer  are  reported.   By
>                default, verbose mode is on if ftp 's commands are
>                coming from a terminal, and off otherwise.

someone could steal code from scp and implement this.