On 4/11/2017 2:39 PM, rickman wrote:
> 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!

I mean USB sticks are so much faster!

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Rick C

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