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\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.48 2003/10/14 19:57:50 jacob Exp $
\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.49 2003/10/15 12:09:24 jacob Exp $
\A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
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\S{faq-pscp-ascii}{Question} Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in
ASCII mode?
Unfortunately not. This is a limitation of the file transfer
protocols: the SCP and SFTP protocols have no notion of transferring
a file in anything other than binary mode.
Unfortunately not.
SFTP is designed to be extensible, so it's possible that an
extension might be proposed at some later date that implements ASCII
transfer. But the PuTTY team can't do anything about it until that
happens.
Until recently, this was a limitation of the file transfer protocols:
the SCP and SFTP protocols had no notion of transferring a file in
anything other than binary mode. (This is still true of SCP.)
The current draft protocol spec of SFTP proposes a means of
implementing ASCII transfer. At some point PSCP/PSFTP may implement
this proposal.
\H{faq-ports} Ports to other operating systems