> scp and sftp were added after the fact scp was there from the beginning, or thereabouts. It certainly was present the first time I played with it which was

> scp and sftp were added after the fact scp was there from the beginning, or thereabouts. It certainly was present the first time I played with it which was within a few months of the first release. ssh was specifically designed as a replacement for BSD remote tools (rsh/rlogin/rcp) even falling back to those protocols if ssh wasn't available (although the FallBackToRsh option was removed from OpenSSH a decade or so ago I think). That's also why "slogin" is installed as a symlink to "ssh", to keep it similar to rsh/rlogin. It only made sense for there to be a "scp" to work like the existing "rcp". You are right that sftp only came later.