Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:22:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> | also sprach Michael A. Miller (on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:16:15PM -0500):
> | > Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not
> | > allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines
> | > in our libraries)
> |
> | can't you install a cygwin version into your homedirectory???
>
> I doubt there is a "home" directory, or even multiple accounts, on the
> machines he is referring to. Perhaps they have zip drives or cd
> drives. If so then you might be able to put the 'doze client on that
> and run it straight from the removable media.
pscp from PuTTY will fir on a floppy disk. It you can get a DOS prompt you
can run it just like normal scp:
C:\>a:\pscp.exe tony@shell.my.domain:~tony/file.zip c:\temp
Will create a file c:\ but that can be deleted when you're done.
Doesn't require any kind of "installing".
Yours Tony.
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