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Originally Posted by knc1

Your on Mac OSx then?

What you downloaded is a graphical client that might come in useful later - for more advanced things that what is needed at the moment.

If your on Mac OSx (a BSD based OS) you should already have, as part of the standard system install, the ssh client of OpenSSH (a BSD based program).

Just open a terminal window and give it a try.
Expect something like this:

core2quad ~ $ ssh
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
           [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
           [user@]hostname [command]

Note: "mac_spec" refers to the MAC address of the nic, not something about your machine.

I think that Mac OSx (like every other full *nix in the world) has the man(ual) documents installed.
Now try:
man ssh

Hi knc1

Thanks very much for this. I just hit man ssh and got the same or similar result to you:

SSH(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH(1)

NAME
ssh -- OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)

SYNOPSIS
ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
[-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11]
[-i identity_file] [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
[-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
[-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path] [-W hostort]
[-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] [user@]hostname [command]

DESCRIPTION
ssh (SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for
executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin
and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two
untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary
TCP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

ssh connects and logs into the specified hostname (with optional user
name). The user must prove his/her identity to the remote machine using
:

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