In article , The Natural Philosopher
 writes:

> 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.

Correct. As I said above. But (a) I don't have root access and (b) I
would quite like to keep this job, which perhaps I didn't make clear
enough, so I shan't be trying to set any of them up.

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Mike Fleming

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