[X4U] Re: FTP Application Survey

Gretchen Hayman gretchen at sedl.org
Wed Apr 27 12:27:25 PDT 2005


On Apr 27, 2005, at 04:38, Allan Hise wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>
>> honestly I use scp at the commandline, but I'm a bit of a freak.  I 
>> have
>> this function defined
>
> Agreed. Thats the way to go. No passwords in the open, etc. And it 
> comes
> with the OS.

Sorry to be a weenie here, but scp is most definitely _not_ an ftp 
application.  scp and ftp use different protocols (and ports); scp uses 
ssh and ftp uses ftp.  Just wanted to make sure that was clear to those 
who might not know.

--
gretchen



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