DO (9.1.1.8) and a defined SFTP doesn't support a switch between ASCII / Binary / Automatic mode - all is disabled. When I select FTP they will be enabled.
In UltraEdit (15.0.0.1046) it works with SFTP.
Now I have to copy all files from Windows to the Unix server - in ASCII mode - which is not possible.
Now I have to use UE again for SFTP ... (also for all my other SFTP servers with certificate + password requirement).
Please fix this soon. I need it for my daily work - and don't want to miss DO! I've also payed for it ...
The options are disabled because the SFTP protocol doesn't have end-of-line conversion like FTP does. SFTP is always in binary mode.
The conversion could be done on the client side (for both uploads and downloads, and always assuming that the server uses Unix EOL, which is a safe assumption with SFTP), though. If you want that the best thing to do is file a feature request with GPSoftware.
Alternatively, depending on which other tools are involved, it might be possible to keep the files with Unix EOLs on the PC side so they don't need conversion. Most good text editors can edit either EOL format and will preserve whichever format the file had when it was loaded, and let you convert from one format to the other (usually via the Save As dialog's Type drop-down). UE almost certainly will do that, which would solve it unless there's something else on the Windows side which requires or adds the Windows-style EOLs.