UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,
I'm hoping this is an easy question, but I'm having a weird problem trying to simply copy and paste text from MS Windows (XP) Notepad and then pasting into vi or vim in AIX. When I type "oslevel" I get "5.3.0.0". The problem is that once the text is pasted, there are sections of text missing. I have tried:

1. pasting into vi from MS windows notepad. this caused all sorts of alignment and extra spacing issues.

2. pasting into vim. i tried to use :set paste, but get the random missing lines of text issue.

3. i tried the command in vim, :set clipboard=unnamed but that didn't work either.

Any thoughts? Seems like there is a buffer setting that needs to be tweaked or something, but i'm pulling out my hair (what's left of it) here.

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

Try this:

On your AIX host, at shell type this:

Code:

cat >/tmp/filename.txt

Your cursor should now be on the next line waiting for input, paste from windows right into the shell. Once you are done, just Ctrl C out of it. Once you ctrl-C, open the file, cat /tmp/filename.txt and hopefully it should have all of the text and should not have anything missing.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried using the cat command and I am still missing many lines of text in the final file. I double checked the source file in Notepad and the text is in the source file. I am using SSH tectia terminal software to connect remotely to AIX, not sure if that has anything to do with my issue? I can sftp the files back and forth with no problems, but i was hoping to be able to use copy&paste since its quicker.