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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It would be good to also have "hash" display progress as many ftp users consider it to be core functionality. Setting mget and mput as aliases to get and put would also ease confusion. Basically, if you're going to steal the semantics of ftp, please do it as fully as possible. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>--Jason Lacoss-Arnold, Systems Technical Specialist</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Technical Services - Unix Arch.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>314-955-8501</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Markus Friedl [<A HREF="mailto:markus@openbsd.org">mailto:markus@openbsd.org</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:04</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Whitaker, Kenneth</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: 'openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Issues with SFTP</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:56:27AM -0500, Whitaker, Kenneth wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ascii Set the "representation type" to "network ASCII".</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> binary Set the "representation type" to "image".</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>but the concept of 'ascii' is unknown to the sftp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>client, the server and the protocol. despite it's</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>make sftp has nothing in common with ftp.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> verbose Toggle verbose mode. In verbose mode, all</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> responses from the FTP server are displayed to the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> user. In addition, if verbose mode is on, when a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> file transfer completes, statistics regarding the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> efficiency of the transfer are reported. By</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> default, verbose mode is on if ftp 's commands are</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> coming from a terminal, and off otherwise.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>someone could steal code from scp and implement this.</FONT>
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