[CALUG] offsite for file access

[Bryan J Smith]

Not sure exactly what someone is looking for here, but just to add ...

If SCP/SFTP isn't an option, but one is using a terminal, and something
like various Linux terminals, or on Windows MobaXterm, SecureCRT, etc...,
one can actually 'stream' files through a terminal using Z-modem is an
option.  Yes, it still exists 30 years later.  ;)

I don't think PuTTY supports it, and Linux terminals vary.  On Windows,
with MobaXterm I can right-click and use 'send/receive via Z-modem.'  In
SecureCRT, it will auto-detect an incoming Z-modem stream and download.

On the 'remote' server side, this requires the 'rz' (receive Z-modem) or
'sz' (send Z-modem), which is in the package 'lrzsz' in most distros. One
would type 'rz' to 'receive' on the remote server (send from Linux
terminal, MobaXterm or SecureCRT) and 'sz' to 'send' (send to Linux
terminal, MobaXterm or SecureCRT).

As I mentioned one may have to right-click and say the opposite of the
command, send/receive in the local terminal.

- bjs


On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:19 PM Chuck Frain <chuck at chuckfrain.net> wrote:

> After just highlighting the desired text in Putty, go to your local text
> editor and try pasting it there. That would be the simplest solution I
> believe.
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:57 AM Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> I have an offsite unix account, assume telnet access, using putty.
>>
>> I want to use it to download a file ( via http)  and store it.
>> Right now, a long link to that file to be downloaded
>> is sent to my offsite unix is in an email.
>> The link is long, so I need copy/paste.
>>
>> However, my *nix know how editing text between apps
>> is lost.
>>
>> At that site,  I have pine available, lynx, links.
>> In pine , I managed to export the email text body
>> containing only the link  (I think ).
>>
>> would:
>> lynx < myfilelink
>> be a way to download the link ?
>>
>> or
>>
>> wget > myfilelink ?  or a pipe ??
>>
>> ( to avoid actually typing the link )
>>
>> Is there an easier way to do this?
>> I seem to be unable to take the short route and
>> simply copy into a OS buffer  ( ^C ) the text
>> inside the pine email body.
>>
>>
>> suggestion ?
>>
>> thx,
>>
>> Walt . . .
>>
>> I want to do that by telnetting or ssh .
>>
>>
>>
>> Tools available there are pine, lynx, links
>>
>> ---- The government is lawless, not the press (people). ( [Supreme Court]
>> Justice Douglas re: The Pentagon Papers )
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