Re: The yearly FTP rant (Was: Re: Passive FTP]

["Freddie Cash" <fcash () mail ocis net>]

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:30:28AM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
> ...
> > It would be a fine sign of progress if vendors stopped shipping FTP
> > and replaced it with scp/ssh. Someone ought to write a version of
> > scp that has exactly the same interface as FTP (but none of the
> > network protocol) and then we could invisibly swap it out and have
> > done with this most horrible bodge of a protocol...
> ...

S/FTP does this.
 
> Fine for us command line apes.

> And then how would you eliminate all those Losedoze FTP apps?

Point them all to WinSCP and say, "See, it's possible."  And hope that 
the developers pick up the challenge and make alternatives.

Cheers,
Freddie                 PhoenixTek Consulting
fcash () bigfoot com    Unix / Networking Services
                        (250) 314-4029

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