Incoming from s. keeling:
> Incoming from Jule Slootbeek:
> > 
> >     I have a problem scp'ing to and from my school's computer science 
> > department server. When i try to scp something all i get is the 
> > timestamp. I'm not sure if the problem lies on my side or on they're and 
> > [snip]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp -r -v 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/classes/cs215/projects classes/cs215
> 
> "-r" is "Recursively copy entire directories."
> 
> Are you sure ~/classes/cs215/projects exists?  Is it a directory?
> Does ./cs215/projects exist?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Does ./classes/cs215/projects exist?

> What happens when you try to scp a single file?  I usually tar up the
> whole dir structure and scp the archive.  Try that.  At least it'll
> tell you whether scp works at all.  If it does, then your syntax above
> is incorrect.
> 
> On babbage:
> 
>   mkdir ~/archive
>   tar czf ~/archive/projects.tgz ~classes/cs215/projects
> 
> Then "scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive/projects.tgz ."

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