Sorry if this belongs elsewhere but I was sure someone here would know. I was under the impression that when using SFTP to transfer files they were automatically treated as Binary files. So if the remote file uses CRLF to terminate lines, the downloaded file would have CRLF terminating it's lines. So I have a vendor that has replaced his FTP with SSH/SFTP. my code is written to expect CRLF because that is the way the files were when using the old FTP system to download. Now, when I use SFTP the files just have the LF. The vendors answer is that we need to use ASCII mode to transfer the files to get the CRLF. I didn't know that there WAS an ASCII mode in SFTP let alone that using ASCII as opposed to Binary would change the line terminators. The files in question are technically ASCII text files but shouldn't I be getting an EXACT copy of the file when I use Binary mode (assuming that I am right and that is indeed the default with SFTP)?
What I really need is an explanation or a pointer to where I can get an explanation so that I really know what I am talking about when I talk to this vendor (and KNOW that I know what I am talking about). Stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
