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On Tuesday 04 December 2007 22:14, David Banning wrote:
> >      running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run
> >      mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program
> >      out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in
> >      plain text - (not a gui html editor) ?
> >
> >    I use putty to ssh to remote servers and use vi to edit files once
> >    logged in to the server.
>
> But putty has be installed on the machine you are working on, right?

Not necessarily. When you go to the download site for putty and click on 
the .exe (<http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe>), 
Windows will ask you whether you want to download the program or run it. Tell 
Windows to run it. It may give you the odd warning but eventually it should 
start up a putty window. (It's possible even this can be locked down tight on 
a Windows box - but usually it isn't blocked).

Jonathan