FTP Buttons greyed

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I bought DOpus 9 (latest version) some weeks ago and I must say its a great tool which makes my daily work much easier.
I do a lot of FTP with the SSH Port 22 connection Type. Some buttons (FTP ASCII transfer mode, FTP binary transfer mode and FTP auto transfer mode) which set the transfer method from ASCII to binary or automatic is always greyed (inactive). Is it a bug, or a future feature or just just an user error?

Btw. A ssh shell would be a great feature for future releases. It could use the same address book like FTP. :smiley:

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I believe SSH doesn't support ASCII transfer mode - all transfers are automatically done as binary.

3

You mean ssh as protocol does not support ASCII transfer mode or the DOpus implementation part?
I normally use the tool WinSCP (winscp.net/eng/index.php). This tool can do ASCII transfer mode and binary as well.

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As I understand it, the SSH protocol doesn't have binary and ASCII transfer modes like FTP does. Of course, an SSH/SCP client can still do the end-of-line conversion work itself when reading/writing data from/to an SSH/SCP connection but it isn't part of the protocol and the server at the other end won't coordinate its own end-of-line conversions like an FTP server would.

Is it just something you're curious about or do you have something at the other end which gets confused by CRLF combinations?

5

I was confused at the beginning when I saw the transfer mode buttons which are greyed during ssh connections. Now I know that ssh doesn't support ASCII transfer. But I wish you put it on your feature wishing list for DOpus as well as a ssh client call.

6

ASCII transfer is meaningless if the other end doesn't support it as well.

7

Correct me if I'm wrong, but only one end must change 0a to 0d0a or 0d0a to 0a.
If both sides alter gotten we a double 0x0d.

With FTP, also only the server alters. With ssh, only the Client could alter.

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Yes it's a server function to convert ASCII (text) files with windows CRLF for the differences between windows and unix (etc)

It's not supported in FTP over SSH.

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[quote="greg"]Yes it's a server function to convert ASCII (text) files with windows CRLF for the differences between windows and unix (etc)

It's not supported in FTP over SSH.[/quote]

Thats correct. What I mean is, if the SSH service sends and receives the data binary, opus could do the CRLF altering. Just as a future feature.

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Yes it could in theory but you could also just use a text editor that did the EOL the way you want them:)

Normally the EOL does not matter and most sites will recognize / ignore the extra EOL terminations.