Larry Landen said:
> I just got Linux (Fedora Core 3) onto my computer, and I don't know how to
> use it.  However, I have been taught how to compile and run programs while
> logged on, and would now like to know how I can download the files from my
> cs-account at BYU and bring them into my root directory.  Unfortunately, I
> only know how to do this in Windows XP where I have Win-SCP do that for
> me.
> Can anyone help me?

There are several ways to do this, actually.  One of the easiest is to use
KDE's "fish" capabilities, although this will only work in KDE
applications like KWrite, Kate, etc. and not in generic X applications
like OpenOffice.  Basically, just put something like
"fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory" in your
konqueror/kwrite/kate/whatever address bar, and it should ask you to log
in.  Basically this accesses the files remotely using SSH, so everything
is encrypted.  You can just access these files remotely like this the
whole time, or you can just drag/drop them wherever you want them locally.

When you're feeling more advanced, take a look at the man pages for rsync
and scp.  Just for examples, I use them basically like the following:

> scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/on/remote/host local/path

or, for lots of files you need to synchronize:

> rsync -e ssh -avz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/on/remote/host/* local/path/


Hopefully this helps,

Lloyd Brown


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