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		stjohnswarts on Nov 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deprecating scp very few things can handle stuff like that going from windows->$another_os. You'll just have to compress them down with a format that understands those and preserves them and transfer it. Some of them don't even make sense on other filesystems.

jlokier on Nov 7, 2020 [–]

That's true. But sometimes you just want to move things from Windows to Windows. Then cygwin rsync isn't up to it. (scp isn't either.)

That's different from MacOS, where there's a Mac-native version of rsync to transfer attributes that don't exist on $another_os.

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