Accessing your occs directory from a remote machine using jEdit

It's easy to access the files on your occs home directory using jEdit's ftp plugin.  To set this up, do the following:

To install the plugin:

• Start up jEdit on your local machine.  (You can download jEdit from www.jEdit.org.)
• From the Plugin menu, choose Plugins-->Plugin Manager-->Install.
• Find FTP in the list of plugins.  Check the box and click on Install.
• When the install is completed, you can close the Plugins window.
• "FTP" should appear under the Plugins menu.

To connect to a server:

• After you start up jEdit for an editing session, you can open or save files in your occs directory.
• Choose either Plugins-->FTP-->Open from Secure FTP Server or Plugins-->FTP-->Save to Secure FTP Server.
• This will bring up a window in which you can enter the remote host that you want to connect to (occs.cs.oberlin.edu) and your username and password.

To compile and run programs that you have saved on occs:

• You can access occs through either ssh or putty.  With either of these programs, you can log in to occs.  You will have a command window to work in.
• jEdit has a plugin called SshConsole which does the same thing.