Personally I love vi for quick edits (config files and so on)
you'll want to ask them if you've got shell access with your account.
You'll also want to ask them if you can run
tar gunzip zip unzip chmod chown ...
a lot of hosts will only let you copy files around
You'll find however a lot of the filemanagers will let you upload zip / tar / gz files and will let you decompress them on the server. |