In article , Martin Gregorie
 writes:

> On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:20:18 +0100, Mike Fleming wrote:
>
> > Sadly for me, vi is my only option - can't access our AIX box other than
> > through a terminal emulator and there's no NFS/Samba shares on it. At my
> > PPoE, I was able to map straight onto a share and used Textpad to edit
> > files, which was a lot quicker way to work for me than using vi.
> >
> I don't know AIX at all, so question: does it support SSH and/or FTP? If
> so, it might be a pain, but you could at least suck files files back to
> you local box to do large and/or multi-file extensive edits of the type
> that involve moving large chunks of text between files.

It's a Unix variant. It supports them. It supports shares as well.
However, I'd be in trouble if I started trying to set up shares or
running an FTP daemon. If was good enough 25 years ago, it's good
enough now.

> If you're allowed to install another editor you could consider trying
> microEmacs, which runs in a standard Xterm window.

No Xterm, and I can't install anything. Including in Windows, so I'd
be stuck with Wordpad, which isn't really a significant advance on vi.

It's a PITA but doesn't actually stop me doing the work. And I keep my
hand in on vi, so I can use it on the Pi.

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Mike Fleming

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