need some help with networking on a friends

[Keith Antoine]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:44, Tim Wunder wrote:

>
> Your at a location other than bigpond.net.au and you want to copy a file
> called filename.sxc that's in /home/kantoine/docs on bigpond.net.au to
> /home/remotefiles at your current location: scp
> kantoine at bigpond.net.au:./docs/filename.sxc /home/remotefiles
>
> To go the other way:
> scp /home/remotefiles/filename.sxc kantoine at bigpond.net.au:./docs/
>
> In either method, you'll get prompted for kantoine's password and the file
> will get copied, securely.
>
> It's just like the syntax for cp, except that you need to specify the
> user/hostname of the remote location you're copying to/from as
> "<user>@<hostname>:", in addition to the directory/filename.
>
> HTH,
> Tim

Ok, Tim many thanks for that, will have to digest it all <grin> but I think 
that I have it now. It was the user at hostname bit that was getting me. Plus 
its easier when you see exactly what I have to write in.
As I said previously, I used to be able to picture (imagine) things but the 
brain now freezes.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage