PuTTY

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PuTTY is a terminal application for Windows. The complete package comes with a few other useful programs such as pageant, for managing your ssh keys, and pscp, for securely copying files between computers.

pscp

  1. Install using the full Windows installer or by downloading the pscp.exe file to a folder such as c:\putty
  2. The easiest way to run pscp is by adding the directory to your path. This allows you to run the command from any directory.
    1. Right-click My Computer, go to Properties
    2. Select Advanced and click Environment Variables
    3. Scroll down in the System Variables box until you find Path, then click it and click Edit
    4. Add the pscp directory to the end of the value string (make sure there's a semicolon separating it from the previous entry)
    5. If you're confused about this, just guess and check, it shouldn't hurt things too badly
  3. Now open cmd from the Run dialog
  4. cd to the directory you want to copy something from and use a command similar to the following (typing in your password as necessary):
pscp myfile.txt bob@yakko.cs.wmich.edu:www/
  1. This will upload the file myfile.txt (from the current directory) to your www directory on yakko
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