To transfer files back and forth to CS unix servers from a unix system, use either the scp(non-interactive) or sftp(interactive) commands. Both of these commands will ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

I'm normally a mac user. On the mac side we have available a great text editor for programmers called TextWrangler. It is free (with a pay-for bigger brother), it does all the proper colouring of text ...