I have a simple text file that I am uploading from a windows platform to a Unix server using SFTP (Client: FireFTP). I have noticed that when uploading using SFTP rather than pl
FTP != SFTP. This is most important thing you should note.
And ASCII mode is just a ancient nonsense. There is no such thing in quite modern SFTP, which just transfer bytes as they are (there is no reason to do it other way).