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.\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
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-.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.16 2001/08/08 07:16:58 deraadt 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
-.Op Fl pqrvC46
+.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 o Ar option
+.Op Fl o Ar ssh_option
.Sm off
.Oo
.Op Ar user@
flag to
.Xr ssh 1
to enable compression.
+.It Fl F Ar ssh_config
+Specifies an alternative
+per-user configuration file for
+.Nm ssh .
+This option is directly passed to
+.Xr ssh 1 .
.It Fl P Ar port
Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.
Note that this option is written with a capital
The program must understand
.Xr ssh 1
options.
-.It Fl o Ar option
-Can be used to give options in the format used in the config file.
-These options are passed directly to
-.Xr ssh 1 ,
-for instance
-.Fl o "Protocol=1"
-would force protocol 1.
+.It Fl o Ar ssh_option
+Can be used to pass options to
+.Nm ssh
+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. For example, forcing the use of protocol
+version 1 is specified using
+.Ic scp -oProtocol=1 .
.It Fl 4
Forces
.Nm