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Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00

Albert Lunde <atlunde@panix.com> Mon, 15 July 2013 09:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00
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> There was a short discussion a few months ago about Section 6.1 of an
> expired SFTP  drafts.  I used Version 3 as the baseline as that is
> the version which OpenSSH implemented.  In my opinion it would be
> easier to document Version 3 as an IETF specification instead of
> trying to pursue the previous efforts.

Van Dyke software seems to have implemented features from the later SFTP 
drafts in their products.   I have used them, and can say that they are 
useful in getting a more faithful transfer of files between Windows systems.

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