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===== Configuring WinSCP Sessions ===== | ===== Configuring WinSCP Sessions ===== | ||
- | Most shells nowadays offer options to make user experience better. Unfortunately many of these options makes the shell incompatible with WinSCP. | + | Most shells nowadays offer options to make the user experience better. Unfortunately many of these options make the shell incompatible with WinSCP. |
- | This mostly affects SCP protocol. Example is colorized output on ''ls'' command that puts ANSI color sequences to the command output that WinSCP cannot parse. | + | This mainly affects the SCP protocol. An example is colorized output with the ''ls'' command that outputs ANSI color sequences to the command output which WinSCP is |
+ | unable to parse. | ||
- | Also SFTP protocol can be affected. Typical example is printing some message from start-up scripts. WinSCP (and any other SFTP client) will attempt to parse the message as SFTP packet, which obviously fails. | + | Also, the SFTP protocol can be affected. A typical example is where some message is |
+ | printed from a start-up script. WinSCP (and any other SFTP client) will attempt to parse the message as an SFTP packet, which will obviously fail. | ||
- | You should configure your start-up scripts to conform to non-interactive sessions (like WinSCP). Some shells calls different profile/start-up scripts for interactive and non-interactive sessions. You can use also some environment variables, like ''TERM'' to distinguish interactive and non-interactive sessions. | + | You should configure your start-up scripts to conform to non-interactive sessions (like WinSCP). Some shells call different profile/start-up scripts for interactive and non-interactive sessions. You can also use some environment variables, such as ''TERM'' to distinguish interactive and non-interactive sessions. |
===== Client Requirements ===== | ===== Client Requirements ===== | ||
WinSCP should run on any system running Windows 95 or later. | WinSCP should run on any system running Windows 95 or later. |