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.\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
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-.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.28 2003/06/10 09:12:11 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.20 2001/09/17 23:56:07 stevesk Exp $
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.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SCP 1
.Nd secure copy (remote file copy program)
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm scp
-.Bk -words
-.Op Fl pqrvBC1246
+.Op Fl pqrvBC46
.Op Fl F Ar ssh_config
.Op Fl S Ar program
.Op Fl P Ar port
.Op Fl c Ar cipher
.Op Fl i Ar identity_file
-.Op Fl l Ar limit
.Op Fl o Ar ssh_option
.Sm off
.Oo
.Ar host2 No :
.Oc Ar file2
.Sm on
-.Ek
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
copies files between hosts on a network.
authentication is read.
This option is directly passed to
.Xr ssh 1 .
-.It Fl l Ar limit
-Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s.
.It Fl p
Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
original file.
.It Fl o Ar ssh_option
Can be used to pass options to
.Nm ssh
-in the format used in
-.Xr ssh_config 5 .
-This is useful for specifying options
+in the format used in the
+.Xr ssh 1
+configuration file. This is useful for specifying options
for which there is no separate
.Nm scp
-command-line flag.
-.It Fl 1
-Forces
-.Nm
-to use protocol 1.
-.It Fl 2
-Forces
-.Nm
-to use protocol 2.
+command-line flag. For example, forcing the use of protocol
+version 1 is specified using
+.Ic scp -oProtocol=1 .
.It Fl 4
Forces
.Nm
.Nm
to use IPv6 addresses only.
.El
-.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+.Sh AUTHORS
+Timo Rinne <tri@iki.fi> and Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
+.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
-exits with 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
+is based on the
+.Xr rcp 1
+program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of
+California.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rcp 1 ,
.Xr sftp 1 ,
.Xr ssh-add 1 ,
.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
-.Xr ssh_config 5 ,
.Xr sshd 8
-.Sh HISTORY
-.Nm
-is based on the
-.Xr rcp 1
-program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of
-California.
-.Sh AUTHORS
-.An Timo Rinne Aq tri@iki.fi
-and
-.An Tatu Ylonen Aq ylo@cs.hut.fi