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MediaTek LinkIt™ Smart 7688 Developer's Guide
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4.7. File Editor and Transfer
As a developer, you want freedom to use any text editor of your choice for coding. You can launch
the built-in vim editor in system console to edit source code files directly in LinkIt Smart 7688 or
you can use other editor from a remote computer, but during development, including tasks such
as program execution, it’s common to transfer files between LinkIt Smart 7688 and the remote
programming computer to finish the job. The default system image of LinkIt Smart 7688 provides
several tools for transferring files over Wi-Fi connection. Table 15 shows the types of file transfer
tools:
File Transfer Service
Protocol
Host
Platform
Tool
SCP (Secure Copy) SCP
Windows
WinSCP
OS X scp command
Linux scp command
Samba SMB/CIFS Windows File Explorer built-in
support
OS X Finder built-in support
Linux smbclient
Table 15 File Transfer Tools
4.7.1. Using SCP to copy files in Windows:
SCP tool is one of the most reliable ways to transfer files is through the SCP protocol. You can
download tools that support SCP protocol.
WinSCP is used in this guide. It provides both GUI and
command line interfaces:
a) To use GUI, start WinSCP and click Yes when you see a warning window as shown in
Figure 33.
Figure 33 SCP Security Warning
b) Select SCP for file protocol, enter mylinkit.local in the host name box, root for user
name and password you set in Web UI. Click Login as show in Figure 34 .