Character Set conversion from EBCIDIC to ASCII

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Oct 17 10:10:38 EST 2014


On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Jitendra.Hushare at sungard.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    We as an organization are going to use SFTP for our data transfer.
> Our requirement is to SFTP the file from IBM Mainframe (z/390) to Unix
> or Windows. Currently we are using FTP, which converts the character
> set from EBCIDIC to ASCII and also take care of CR and LF aspect.
>
>    My question is, do the same feature is available in SFTP, where it
> smartly understand the source and destination operating system and
> does the character set conversion and take care of CR and LF as FTP
> does currently. Please suggest.

No, OpenSSH does not and will not implement character set conversion.
You might be able to find a 3rd-party sftp client or server that does
it.

-d


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