Thanks Humphrey, I did mention about Winscp earlier in the thread. What I needed is something that runs in Linux at command line level (so that I can put in crontab). I do have winscp & I'm aware winscp can handle 'ascii'. The fact that winscp has 'ascii' built in goes to show 'ascii' mode is still useful. Due to network/security design, my Linux box has to be initiating party (ie the client) to the remote Windows box (ie the server) to get & put files. So I'll need something on my Linux box that can do scp/sftp (or rsync via ssh; or ssh+cat+) with 'ascii' mode as our current ftp method of transferring files has been mandated to be replaced by scp/sftp/ssh Tks U -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list