From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T20:49:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Arachno Ruby IDE 0.5.5 for Linux

In article <426fbaa3$1_2@127.0.0.1>, no@noemail.com says...
> Is there really such
> thing as simple file transfer?  Even more confusingly, if memory serves me
> right, sftp (as in openssh) actually isn't anything like ftp (RFC 959, the
> one at port 20/21) at all.

SFTP (Simple File Transfer) is, IIRC, either a precursor or an 
alternative to FTP, in much the same way that SMTP was an alternative to 
some other mail transfer protocol long since lost to time (maybe X.400).  
Nobody uses *that* SFTP anymore, but its name still lives on in 
/etc/services.

Secure FTP is, in fact, unrelated to FTP; it uses SSH, and then you get 
directory listings with ls, copy files with scp, etc.


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