scp not tolerant of extraneous shell messages

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 12:22 PM -0500 7/1/02, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
>You are really looking for sftp which has no shell dependancies.
>
>But in general. No.. Fix your startup scripts.  scp is rcp in a
>ssh wrapper.  and rcp will also fail.

For what it is worth, I fixed this in my own shell processing by
moving any message-producing commands inside of:

     if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ] ; then
        echo "Welcome!"
     fi

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