I was using sftp to pull a file from a system and the transfer aborted with the message:
Code:
Received message too long
followed by a large number and I was kicked all the way out to a shell prompt.
Anyone know what problem might have caused this? I was using the Cygwin's sftp when this happened.
The file I was getting wasn't very large (5.5M) and certainly nowhere near the largest I've grabbed using sftp. Luckily the remote system was 'IX and I was able to dust off my memories of the "split" command (before USB drives became common, "split -b 1400k" was burned into my synapses) and reassemble the file once I got all the chunks transferred. Still, having to do this is weird. Any ideas?
TIA...
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Rick
