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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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	Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
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Subject: Re: sftp mount?
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:31, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > * Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> [20031107 17:28]: wrote:
> > > At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can
> > > transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets q=
uite
> > > painful after a while.
> >
> > What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use
>
> Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it.
> In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly.  I don't
> want to be copying back/forth.  It can't really be automated either,
> since I'm not doing the same task over and over.

Am I missing something? To edit the remote files *directly*, login
via ssh and edit. ????

Malcolm