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tonij67@hotmail.com wrote:
> Wierd problem going on here:
> 
> I need to transfer files to a OS/390 machine from a Solaris machine.  I
> use scp for a whole lot of transfers every day with no problems so it
> seems like the obvious choice. (I am using OpenSSH  4.3p2)   We have
> been having problems in that every time we send a ZIP file to this z/os
> system, they are unable to decompress it.  i.e. its corrupted.
> 
> I can send zip files to every other machine on our network, and even a
> few machines on *their* network, all different platforms.  The only one
> that has issues is this one OS/390.  I suggested they investigate the
> verison of SSH they are running and they told me that scp expects all
> files to be text, so the only way for this to work is for us to use
> sftp instead of scp.
> 
> So I am just scratching my head here...all of the reading I have done
> has lead me to believe that scp doesnt even *HAVE* a text/binary mode,
> that its always binary.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what gives here?
> 
The IBM Ported Tools User's Guide states that scp assumes files are 
text. Files copied between EBCDIC and ASCII platforms are converted.

On the other hand, sftp assumes they are binary. If it is invoked on the 
z/OS side, there is an ASCII subcommand (just like for an ftp client) to 
tell it to do text conversion. Most platforms don't have that subcommand.