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Re: O.T. FTP upload

From	Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: O.T. FTP upload
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Date	2011-11-04 15:12 -0700

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On 11/4/11 2:29 PM, Lew wrote:
> On Friday, November 4, 2011 2:13:54 PM UTC-7, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:31:11 -0700, Lew wrote:
>>
>>>> If your ISP supports SSH, and most do, that's a good argument for
>>>> investigating sftp and/or PuTTY (which provides a decent scp command
>>>> line tool for Windows).
>>>
>>> Or Cygwin, which sports "ssh".
>>>
>> I was assuming that Roedy doesn't have either installed: if PuTTY can do
>> what he needs its the best choice since all it does is implement SSH for
>> Windows. Yes, I know it does/did implement Telnet as well, but that's
>> less added cruft than pulling in a shell and the core UNIX utilities.
>
> Two points:
> - How is that "cruft"?
> - These posts are public and long-lived.  Many people will read them besides the OP.  Those folks might find the benefits of Cygwin compelling, and should be aware of the alternative.  That "cruft" that you disparage could be the very added value that makes Cygwin better than Putty for some individuals.  It does for me.  Why would I opt for Putty, which is a non-standard solution and does not include "find", "ls", "grep" or the rest?  Blecch!
>
> YMMV.
>
I like to combine the two and used "MinTTY" for the terminal used by Cygwin.

Though now I'm on a MacBook Pro, so I needn't worry about such nonsense ;-)

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  Re: O.T. FTP upload Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-01 09:33 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-11-01 18:49 +0000
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:40 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:33 -0700
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-01 22:11 -0400
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-02 21:20 +0000
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 17:31 -0700
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-04 21:13 +0000
        Re: O.T. FTP upload Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 14:29 -0700
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-04 15:12 -0700
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-04 15:15 -0700
            Re: O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:43 -0400
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-05 19:44 +0000
            Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-06 06:58 -0800
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  Re: O.T. FTP upload Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-11-02 16:33 -0700
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  Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-03 10:30 -0400
    Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 08:09 -0700
      Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-03 13:56 -0400
      Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 22:26 -0400

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