Pasting via ssh causes data loss

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 30 12:20:27 PST 2008


Eugene Pimenov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm not really sure weither it's related to freebsd or ssh.
> 
> When I paste a lot of data (6060 bytes, 60 lines 100 bytes each + ‘\n’)
> via ssh into `cat > test.txt` or the small program, one freebsd receives
> 5181, another receives 3221 bytes.

I regularly do copy-pastes of textual data of that size (and larger) in
interactive sessions (with text editors) without problems, between
FreeBSD machines and from Linux to FreeBSD machines. Are you sure it's
not a problem with your terminal application and not on the server side?
(try a different terminal).


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