Issues with SFTP

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Whitaker, Kenneth wrote:

> 
>  Who is the "someone" to sending the patch ?
>
>  Your current "get a*" for example would grab every "a*" file no
> prompting.
>
>  My goal is not losing functionality with the ftp command.

sftp is not ftp. If you want a commandline sftp client which emulates
the uglieness of ftp, you won't find it here.

There are a few things missing from sftp - I wish people would try out
Tobias' overlapping read/write patch instead of arguing about prompting
and progress meters.

-d