From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CBkD7-00028X-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:21:49 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (klewellen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8R1LnEo027661 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:21:49 GMT (envelope-from klewellen@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (klewellen@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i8R1Lnsm027658 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:21:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: klewellen owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:21:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Lewellen To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20040927010230.GA5154@luke-laptop.yelavich.home> Message-ID: References: <20040920191737.GA6381@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <20040927010230.GA5154@luke-laptop.yelavich.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:21:49 -0000 Hi, I have no local access to a Linux machine, as said. However nettamer is not necessarily the only way I can connect to the net. I have all the connection information, so any program that is a stand alone ppp/ip, as with agents for example, can get me to the net. I will ask about these tools in dos, and a connection method. Thanks, Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:23:46AM EST, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Hi all, >> This is an odd one, so I hope I ask it in such a way to make sense. >> I do not have a Linux machine. I have been trying to get this, and >> thought I had one in the he works but it seems that party either made up >> the machines they were offering, or for some other reason is not coming >> through. > > Thats a shame, but I guess it can't be helped. > > >> first, is there a way to move large amounts of data stored in the >> workspace of a Linux shell service to another location in tact, with >> relative ease, and without taking all of the data on the entire system? > > There is certainly a way of doing this, read below. > >> second, if my machine was also a Linux one, would this kind of storage be >> easy to do? > > If you had a Linux machine locally, I.E one that you owned and used yourself, > it would be a lot easier to do, as the tools that I am thinking of are readily > available on Linux. > > The tools I am thinking of, are the SSH suite of tools, particularly one command > being scp. This command allows you to copy data securely over a network > connection, by means of encryption. > > You will have to investigate whether such tools are available for DOS, but if > there is, it will be easy to copy all the data over in one command, without > bringing the rest of the system with it. > > The only problem might be that you may have to use tools other than net tamer > to connect to the net in order to use scp. > > As I said earlier, if you have local access to a Linux machine, this would be > a hell of a lot easier to do. > > I hope this helps. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >