I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there, Lou. SFTP is its own protocol; it runs over SSH, but is substantially more complicated than "scp". "sftp" is not just user interface, like scp is.
I took his comment to mean, "I've always understood SFTP to be the FTP protocol that runs over SSH", and so I replied that his understanding was correct.
I didn't consider him saying "like using scp" to mean he thinks "it is scp". Rather, I took it to mean, "it uses SSH to copy files, like scp".
But, I can see how one could interpret it that way. It was not my intent.
I'm staying the heck of out of the pedantry business in the future. This has been a ridiculous bundle of threads all spawned just because I had a bee in my bonnet about how the term SFTP is confusingly misused by lots of folks. I don't even use any of these "FTP" protocols for anything (I use rsync or SVN for website data, and scp for one-off file copies--I haven't used an FTP GUI since I owned an Amiga). I only ever touch FTP for testing problems our users report, and then always using lftp on the command line. I've got no dog in this race...
