Figure out how scp works and do it old school.  Basically scp is a wrapper around an SSH session which results in piping a file to or from a server.  Unfortunate for scp users is the documentation is considered to be the source-code for the scp clients and servers.

So what do you do if need to get a file that's up on an SSH server and scp is either not there or broken by your omnipotent software vendor?  Follow these steps and you'll have a working scp without scp.

First off thanks to Jan Pechanec's weblog:

and the kind people at OpenSSH:

These instr

Instructions have been tested on RHEL and should work on other *nix systems.  Putty in 
Windows works as noted:

1.  To pull a file from the server:

Linux
ssh account@server.com 'scp -f somefile.txt' > somefile.txt

enter the password if prompted

Then hit <CTRL><SHIFT>@ (a good number is 7 times) and hit enter

Windows

plink account@server.com "scp -f somefile.txt" >somefile.txt

enter a password (PLINK won't display a password prompt when using the '>' pipe)

Then hit <CTRL><SHIFT>@ (a good number is 7 times) and hit enter

You should now have a file sitting on you system in your current directory.  If something doesn't work the way you expect it drop the > somefile.txt from the command and try again.

Uploading a file to the server is a little more involved as the server needs to know how many characters are in the file being uploaded.

On Linux run:

wc -c somefile.txt and note the number of characters

Then run:
ssh account@server.com 'scp -t somefile.txt'

enter the password when prompted

then enter:

C0644 the_number_of_characters somefile.txt

Next paste the contents of the file to be uploaded and hit enter

and finish up with:

e

You should now be back to your command prompt