On 4/11/2017 10:18 AM, alister wrote:
> 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?

Sneakernet.  He types a command into a file and mails a USB stick with
the file.  Someone at the other then plugs the USB stick into the
machine and redirects stdio from the file.  This is such an improvement
over the 5-1/4 inch floppy days!

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Rick C

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