<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div style="color:black">From: <span style="color:black">Tobias Jung</span> <a href="mailto:newsgr@tobiasjung.net">newsgr@tobiasjung.net</a><br></div><div style="color:black"><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>Carpii UK wrote (Tue, 27 May 2014 21:21:21 +0100): <br> <br>> I dont know how anyone can even think of using ftp or scp in 2014. <br> <br>Well obviously you're in an environment where you're not forced to use it. <br>I seriously envy you... <br><br></div></div></span></blockquote><br><div>Back in 1994-95, I wrote one of the first graphical FTP clients for a suite of Internet tools called “Columbus" for Windows 95 - I know, shoot me now. </div><div><br></div><div>Since then I’ve had a love/hate relationship with any sort of file transfer tool including code repositories like svn and git. I’ve seen files get messed up so many times I now try to KISS (keep it simple stupid) - hence I use discrete programs that perform one task very well and scp is my tool of choice for file transfers and it’s ubiquitous on *nix boxes.</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Wong</div></body></html>