X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Robinson, Paul T (NonStop)" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:06:10 +0000 Subject: RE: inetutils 1.5-4, ftp + inline password immediately quits Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m8H68JLH002321 NightStrike wrote: > The only purpose of an ascii transfer is to convert text conventions > (line endings, ascii/ebdcii encoding, etc). With scp, this does not > happen, as scp is a drop in replacement for cp/rcp. Instead, you have > to combine it with a dos2unix command of some sort to do the convesion > yourself. Precisely. I am talking to a legacy non-dos non-unix system, and the conversion is nontrivial. But the FTP server on the other side knows exactly what to do. Anything else is more trouble. Andre DeFaria wrote: >Or just stay in "Unix mode"... ;-) I wish. Entertaining as all this discussion is, the original point remains: There is a bug in the FTP delivered in inetutils 1.5-4. I regret not making it clear up front that non-FTP solutions aren't feasible. --paulr -- 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/