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From: Tony Holmes <tony@crosswinds.net>
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Subject: Re: SCP/SFTP Brain Fart
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> It seems that your shell profile executes stty(1) even
> for non-interactive shells.  That is wrong.  Make sure
> that you shell profiles and rc files do not call stty
> or produce any output for non-interactive sessions.
> Such output confuses scp.

So obvious!

The offender:

=2Elogin

stty erase =08

This was a carry over from ages ago when my chosen terminal s/w didn't
support the backspace mapping.

Thank you and I will bear the pointy hat proudly!

--=20
Tony Holmes

Ph: (416) 993-1219

Founder and Senior Systems Architect
Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.