While installer is for general use only, portable executables are meant for more specific needs as well as advanced users. The difference between them is that the installer is what pre-configures executables for the purpose of overriding their default portable behavior. These executables which are in the Portable executables package are very identical to the executables in the Installation package. WinSCP can be downloaded as standalone Portable executables. A third-party plugin exists for FAR file manager. It is available as a plugin for the Altap Salamander file manager. WinSCP is basically based on implementation of SSH protocol from PuTTY as well as FTP protocol from Firezilla. For the purpose of secure transfers, it uses SSH and supports SCP protocol in addition to the SFTP.

Other than this, offers a basic file manager as well as file synchronization functionality. Its prime function is to conduct secure file transfer between remote and local computer.

WinSCP is an open-source FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, WebDAV and SCP client to Microsoft Windows.

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