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Re: sftp removing writable bit


* Robert Kiesling (Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:57:32 -0400 (EDT))
> > * Andrew DeFaria (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:19:00 -0700)
> > > DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> > > > sftp gives you a familiar FTP shell; it is not just a command you run
> > > I understand that.
> > > > you can list the files on the remote system and make decisions about
> > > > what files you want instead of requiring that knowledge beforehand
> > > Simple. Just ssh <remotemachine> ls /path.
> > 
> > Andrew, please, stop it. Do you really don't understand the difference 
> > between a simple command line tool like scp and a client that offers 
> > extended functionality?!
> 
> I should know better than to get involved with a budding flame war 
> like this'un.

This is no "flaming war". It's just nonsense to say "everything I can 
do with foo I can do with bar, too". 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/.

> 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].

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.

> besides a graphical user interface?

GUI? What are you talking about?


Thorsten

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/92306
[2] http://yafc.sourceforge.net/manual/index.php
[3] http://lftp.yar.ru/lftp-man.html


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