On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:06:56 +0100, Mike Fleming wrote:

> In article , The Natural Philosopher
>  writes:
>
>> On 08/04/17 10:37, Mike Fleming wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>> How are you accessing it at all? If you are using ssh, then its 99%
>> certain that sftp will work, and you have all you need to 'mount'
>> filesystems that you are able to access anyway.
>
> Can't run ftpd. Can't install anything. No root privilege, all of which
> I've said above.
>
>> IN most cases installing the sshd, will also enable default sftp
>> services.
>
> Can't install. See above.
>
>> Client wise,  this is pretty much it
>>
>> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-
mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
>
> Can't install. See above.
but you may not have to
is the server already running ssh most are
in which case scp sftp or sshfs could  be used to copy files.

if not then how is your terminal emulator connecting?






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