Thank you all for your many ideas which have taught me a lot. I discovered that my hosting firm forbids SSH. I don't know why or what is the significance of this in the universe of webhosts. I chose them because they are physically close and also are _real humans_ whom I can drive to visit.
It turns out I had the perfect software installed and was using it all the time for another purpose: Netdrive. I installed it as a backup method (eventually to move to RSYNC when I grow up). It allows me to map a remote server (rsyncit.com) to a local drive letter, which makes life easy for a DOS fan like me who has done everything from the command line since DOS 3.1. At the end of each day (on those days when I'm sentient anyway) I just run a batch file XRE.BAT: cd\ e: cd\ xcopy /d /s *.* y:\jr_backup\e and it's done. I have a batch file for each drive letter. (It did take a month to perform baseline population of the remote server with 2 gb of data.) So it turns out I can link to my webhost using Netdrive, and just upload and download stuff (I assume, haven't tried it yet, but the remote server now appears as drive letter W) as if it were on my local drive. Yesterday one of you even had to explain to me off list about drag and drop, because I've never used it and didn't know how. And in fact operating from the command line is much faster and easier. Why use drag and drop? I'd welcome further thoughts on this new adventure, which now makes populating my websites much easier than I had been doing for almost ten years. Thanks again to all Jeffrey Race Today in Bangkok +1 617 629-2805 (follows me worldwide) _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
