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Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> > No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have
> > over say... scp?
> 
> You can use your favourite FTP client, right?!

No, that's ftps.  sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp.

Brian

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