From 99972f1d7aa7e7c95a23279d5447d279619f196c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mouring <mouring>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:25:46 +0000
Subject:    - stevesk@cvs.openbsd.org 2001/08/14 17:54:29      [scp.1 sftp.1
 ssh.1]      consistent documentation and example of ``-o ssh_option'' for
 sftp and      scp; document keyword=argument for ssh.

---
 scp.1 | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'scp.1')

diff --git a/scp.1 b/scp.1
index 395ffdf8..10bd85ca 100644
--- a/scp.1
+++ b/scp.1
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Created: Sun May  7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.16 2001/08/08 07:16:58 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.17 2001/08/14 17:54:29 stevesk Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd September 25, 1999
 .Dt SCP 1
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .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@
@@ -107,13 +107,17 @@ to use for the encrypted connection.
 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, to force the use of protocol
+version 1 you may specify
+.Ic scp -oProtocol=1 .
 .It Fl 4
 Forces
 .Nm
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