Cliff Cyphers wrote: > > Why bother? ssh, sftp, scp are no harder to use than telnet, ftp. What > OS are you using? For GNU/Linux + other Unix can use gftp as a gui > client to handle sftp and scp. > > And can use any ssh client for machine access. Putty is cross-platform: > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > I don't follow what you're saying. Are there Ruby libraries in the putty distribution? Hal