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Old 09-26-2008
Transferring files between Windows and AIX
How do I transfer Plain Text and/or BMP image files between my WindowsXP PC and my AIX 4.1 PowerPC?

I have no network or USB options, just a Floppy disk drive and a CD drive on each machine.

Is it possible at all? Any help would be gratefully receivedSmilie
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Old 09-26-2008
Write your stuff on a floppy disk, put the floppy disk into your AIX box and check the man page for "dosread". Example No. 2 could be helpful.
# 3  
Old 10-08-2008
Third party softwares like "Smart FTP" will do this
# 4  
Old 10-08-2008
He wrote:
Quote:
I have no network or USB options, ...
So it will be not easy with smartFTP I guess.
# 5  
Old 10-08-2008
oops.. i miss that statement...
# 6  
Old 10-08-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver How far can you get on AIX
I will assume that you are comfortable on the PC-side to read/write to floppy disk or cdrom. On the AIX, what do you know about those media devices normally at /dev/disk or /dev/dsk ?
In general sense, you will need to
mount the disk
>mount /dev/disk/floppy0 /mnt
or
>mount /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /cdrom

You will need to learn more about your system in order to know how to use the above two examples.

then see what is on the disk
>ls -l /mnt
or
>ls -l /cdrom
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Old 10-08-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by joeyg
>mount /dev/disk/floppy0 /mnt
As far as i know AIX (unlike Linux) has neither a NTFS- nor a FAT16/FAT32-driver, therefore mounting a floppy drive in AIX seems to be impossible.

There are - as zaxxon has already mentioned - the "dosdir", "dosread" and "doswrite" commands, which can read/write/list FAT16-formatted floppies though. The commands are quite straightforward and their usage is easily picked up by reading the manpage.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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