SCP!

[Kevin Kinsey]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-12-12 20:23, Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h at lvor.halvorsen.cc> wrote:
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>>On 12/12/05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
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>>>You use PSCP.EXE instead of PUTTY.EXE from a Windows' "cmd" prompt.
>>>That's probably awful, if you're looking for something with fancy,
>>>colourful GUI buttons, but it has certainly saved my a$$ a few times :)
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>>http://winscp.net/ is a nice GUI scp and sftp client for Windows.
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>Many thanks!  I don't use Windows, unless I'm *REALLY* forced to do so,
>because I almost invariably find the whole experience extremely annoying
>and distracting from the work I really want to do, but this will be
>useful to know for any future occasions I'm forced to use Windows :)
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I don't use it either, if there's a FreeBSD box within walking
distance, or perhaps even a short drive; but most of my
clients do, so I'm pretty familiar with it, as so many of us are.
I do have a win2k laptop that needs to be "converted" as
soon as I can buy a newer one for wifey.  I'm doing it kind
of piecemeal ATM, though :D

I have installed an X server over the win2k installation,
and cygwin, and bash, some other 'Nix like tools; I can
occasionally *almost* feel at home now, but there is also
a slightly 'out of place' feeling to the whole experience ...
especially when you realize that you are running a
windowing system over the top of another windowing
system because you **know** that it is, technically, superior;
sort of like "french kissing your sister" (which I *don't*
know from experience, but it's an occasionally used
comparison here in the US) ... (ugh!)

--KDK

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