Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Portability of archives?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>

    >     Tom> If it supports ssh, you should be able to get an sftp setup
    >     Tom> running, perhaps with some (pretty trivial) "local
    >     Tom> customization" of the tla sftp transport.

    > Huh?  sftp requires a separate binary _on the server_, 

Yes, and if you have ssh access, you can install one.

    > and must be
    > enabled in the sshd configuration _on the server_.

No, you can work around that in your login scripts.  A vanilla sftp
client might not grok it -- hence the reason I suggested "(pretty
trivial) `local customization'".


-t