John, Thanks. That's the way documentation should be written. John On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, John wrote: > scp is actually quite simple for most purposes. This command > scp gw:/etc/passwd /tmp > will copy the passwd file from my computer to the /tmp directory on my > computer. > > You can, of course, copy from your computer to a remote one: > scp my-delights gw:/tmp > > You can also use wildcards in the usually Linux manner: > scp gw:/var/ftp/pub/* /tmp > and the most likely switches are > -r for recursion > -q to turn off the progress meter > -p to preserve permissions, timestamps etc. > -C to turn on compression, you would want this if there's a modem or other > slow network between you and the remore computer. > > If ssh is configured to work without password prompts, then scp will too. > > > On Saturday 17 August 2002 05:29, John J. Boyer wrote: > > Thanks to all the people the other day who told me how to get ssh working. > > That's fine now. The next thing is to do secure ftp. I looked at scp, but > > it doesn't seem very interactive, or there are so many options that I > > can't see how it is normally used. This is a common failing of man and > > even info pages. > > > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703