Most VCD people use Mac instead of Windows/PC or Unix workstations. Here are some ideas from Sanda and Tony to help Mac Users.

Other important info for Mac and non-mac users to use the CS account can be found here.

• FTP and SFTP: Fetch (http://fetchsoftworks.com/) or FUGU (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/) provides a good GUI for doing FTP/SFTP. FUGU also does SSH.

  If you don't want to download and install another program, you can use the Mac OS X supplied command-line tools for ssh and for sftp. Just go to the terminal application (under applications/utilities) and run: ssh your-userid@cgi.cs.kent.edu or sftp your-userid@cgi.cs.kent.edu.

• Text Editor: Another issue is where to actually write the HTML code on the Mac. I know that theoretically you should be able to do this in any word program, but Word does not respond well to the HTML code. In fact it is not a good program at all for writing code on the Macs. I would recommend vi or vim which is available as commands from the terminal application. Google for Vim documentation or see this vi introduction and this quick reference card and for starters.

  If you don't like vi/vim, you have also the choice of using emacs (also from the Mac terminal). See this Emacs introduction for starters.

• To handle word (.doc), excel (.xlt) and other MS Office file types, you can install the free OpenOffice.org.