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From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Date:  Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:29:27 -0500
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> IOW what's the advantage of an sftp client over just plain scp?

Directory listings. Unless I miss something, it's hard to scp a file 
when you don't already know its path.

-- 
Matthew
"It's impossible! But... do-able."
   -- Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery, Entrapment)


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