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Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in ASCII mode?

April 26, 2017ASCII files mode PSCP psftp transfer

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Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in ASCII mode?

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Unfortunately not. 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.