On 08/04/17 09:50, Mike Fleming wrote:
> 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.

http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=main.samba

AIX will run NFS, samba, sshd, and/or ftpd.

I'd probably use sshd, and sftp... I use that to securely mount my
remote server over the internet.

Unless it was right next to me in which case NFS.

My use of samba has reduced to occasionally firing it up to allow a
portable MASC to access the data.

And then spending a week deleting all the historic  printers the MAC has
ever connected to, that its incompetent owner has set to be exported to
any local CUPS system.

But I digress.



>
>> 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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