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Subject: Re: OT: Mac OSX question

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:44:06 07/19/05

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On July 18, 2005 at 19:06:48, Will Singleton wrote:

>On July 18, 2005 at 18:27:09, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>I am not sure what the drop box you talk about is, but I have always just
>>used scp for transfering files.  I have never seen any permission problems.
>>
>>Tord
>
>What is scp?

'scp' is a program for copying files through ssh.  It is a command line
utility which works almost exactly like 'cp', which is used to copy files
from one location to another on the same machine.  For instance, if
I am sitting in front of my iMac at home and want to transfer the file
foo.bar to the machine in my office, I type:

scp foo.bar romstad@europa.uio.no:~/some/directory/

The file is then copied to the directory ~/some/directory/ on my
office machine.

>Can the average non-unix user make use of it?

I know very few average non-unix users, but I suspect that they
wouldn't like it.  However, I am sure there are lots of user-friendly
graphical front ends to scp.  After a quick Google search I found
the following program:

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

I haven't tried it, but it looks good (and is free).

Tord




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