Jason McIntyre:

> i suspect that direct copies between remote hosts is the default, and -3
> changes that. and that "This mode is the default" refers to batch mode
> when using -O, not the -3 option.

No and no.

Direct copying between remote hosts used to be the default, and -3
was introduced to transfer through the local host.  Eventually the
latter behavior was made the default, making -3 a nop, and another
option, -R, was added for direct copies.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de