Issues with SFTP

[mouring]

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> hence, if the default in virtually every other ftp is that prompt is on
> by default, it should be on by default when/if added to sftp. principle
> of least surprise...
> 
> ...otherwise, someone (admittedly, perhaps not very bright, but that is
> what the PC and Web revolutions bring as their baggage...) who wants to
> copy only four of the five files in the directory, and not have the
> fifth overwrite one she has by the same name is going to be in for a
> rather unpleasant surprise...
> 
I refer to you ncftp  which by default (last I used it) it was off.  People
managed very well.

- Ben