Workarounds for missing ftp functionalities in sftp

[Fedon Kadifeli]

I am trying to replace the legacy (telnet, ftp, rlogin, rcp, remsh...) commands with the secure equivalents (ssh, sftp, scp...). I have installed T1471AA on HP-UX and the Cygwin equivalents on my Windows PC.

During my first usage of these commands, what I see missing from the sftp (and scp) command is:

(1) No ascii/binary file transfer option selection.
(2) No way of interactive prompting to multiple file transfers (like the ftp "prompt" and "mget/mput" commands).

Any suggestions and workarounds will be highly appreciated.

[Muthukumar_5]

what is the version of sftp you are using?

You can use scp for multiple file transfer.

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Muthu

[Fedon Kadifeli]

Secure shell (for HP-UX) is version 4.20. I guess the utilites both in HP-UX and Cygwin are using SFTP protocol version 3.

I routinely transfer files from a system using ftp like this:

...
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode On .
ftp> ascii
200 Type set to A.
ftp> mget *txt
200 Type set to A.
mget char.txt? n
mget chartab.txt? y
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for chartab.txt (765 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 778 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 778000.00Kbytes/sec.
mget ls.txt?

That is, I want to interactively select and transfer *some* of the files, let's say, ending with txt to my PC and do the trasfer in ascii (text) mode.