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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fish vs sftp -- not the same, folks.
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Jan Hudec |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fish vs sftp -- not the same, folks. |
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Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:45:12 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 13:58:25 -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> I've heard quite enough disinformation on this list lately.
>
>
> A few quotes to clear it up:
>
> >From the man page of lftp 3.0.x:
> > Fish is a protocol working over an ssh connection to a unix account.
> > SFtp is a protocol implemented in ssh2 as sftp subsystem.
>
> By Aaron J. Seigo on Friday 14/Feb/2003, @00:39:
> > fish works even on systems that don't allow or can't do sftp (crazy
> > admins, old ssh, etc). otherwise they're pretty much the same
> > functionality wise. fish puts a perl script in your home dir
> > (.fishsrv.pl), while sftp doesn't require that. instead it requires a
Sounds strange. I thought that bourn shell is a server for FISH (FISH ==
FIles over SHell) -- so it should do without a perl script...
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