X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: sftp removing writable bit Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:08:26 -0700 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Thorsten Kampe wrote: > This is no "flaming war". It's just nonsense to say "everything I can > do with foo I can do with bar, too". Actually, no, it's not nonsense at all. In fact it's a very good argument! > Of course you can do everything you can do with mutt also with telnet > to port 110. It's not /what/ you can do but /how/. Not at all analogous... >> What, "extended functionality," are you referring to, > Jason R. DePriest described the difference between a simple command > you run and a SFTP/SCP client quite well in [1]. [1] what? Difference? Yes. Advantage? Not necessarily... > If you still don't know what he's talking about, I refer you to the > man page of yafc[2] or lftp[3] for example. Yes, why bother explaining yourself... >> besides a graphical user interface? > GUI? What are you talking about? > > Thorsten > > [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/92306 Again, this tells you nothing other than sftp gives you a shell. BFD! ssh gives you a frigging shell... > [2] http://yafc.sourceforge.net/manual/index.php > [3] http://lftp.yar.ru/lftp-man.html Neither of these are particularly compelling... -- Andrew DeFaria Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/