[KLUG Members] ssh questions

[bill]

A couple of SSh questions:

1. When running SSH and connected to a remote box, what's the best way 
to copy a file to or from the remote box?  Is it something I can do 
within SSH or must I use an external program like SCP?

2. If I run a command that takes a while to execute, can I exit the SSH 
session and expect the command to keep running or must I do something 
else first (like putting it in the background, etc.)?

kind regards,

bill hollett