need some help with networking on a friends

[Marianne Taylor]

On September 4, 2002 02:59 am, you wrote:
> begin  Marianne Taylor's  quote:
> | I have to say that I have never got scp to work either.  When you
> | get it figured out - care to share the proper syntax?
>
> scp [filename] name at address.ext:targetdirectory/
>
> when prompted for password, provide same. the example assumes that you
> are in the directory containing the file to be copied.
>
> to do it the other way, you can list the fqpn relative to the user and
> instead of the target directory put a space and a period, which will
> specify the current directory.

Thanks Kevin and Dep.  That has it working.  I guess I never put in the colon!