Sending file over ethernet, between diferent OS.

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Hellos guys, this is my first post here & im running out of options,

you see, i have a computer that runs on UNIX, its a computer for a machine that does some specialited work, the machine its old, from the late 90's i think 2000, and it runs on UNIX.

I need to extract a text file (Diagnostic Log) from the UNIX system, the computer has a DDS driver but that one its not functional, we tried installing a floopy disk but its a SCSI MOBO instead of SATA(Or ATA), we dont have the adapter SCSI to USB to extract the file conecting it to another computer like we have done in SATA or ATA disks.

I dont know what options we have left, someone said that we could connect the computers via ethernet or serial port (RS232) and send the file byte by byte, but i dont know if thats posible and if its posible how we can achieve this result, since nobody really knows UNIX commands,

Any ideas? Thank you in advance.
 
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you have no clue sometime i7baby you just like to respond to posts to get your post count up it appears.

Unix is very alive and well it is just not called unix any more. Every linux variant on the market is derived in one form or another from the same base version of unix. There are even commercial variants still being sold. The only reason nothing is called unix is all based on a bunch of copyright lawsuits.

transferring the file will be the simple part if you have the device on the network. A simple line mode FTP command will transfer the file and you can get free FTP servers for just about any OS. The hard part is going to be putting the IP address on ethernet interface. The exact command vary a bit since they put the...
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Why do you want to copy a diagnostic log. Just bring it up on screen and read it.

If you don't know UNIX commands, why are you even trying to use it?

Get and old IDE floppy drive from an old pc from a junk heap. But if you don't know UNIX then again you're wasting your time.
 
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yoko911

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First of all, Thank you for answering,

Second, its a log file, termination .log, but its not on readable ASCII text, it is for the company that did the machine, so they can inspection it and tell us whats wrong, and its in UNIX becuz thats how the company sold it on those years, then they are selling a convertion to MSbut that would cost us 5000 dlls plus the hardware, so yea its not a viable solution, we tried installing a floppy disc drive IDE(40PIN) but the machine has a special connector, so thats a NO on that side

Thank you
 
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you have no clue sometime i7baby you just like to respond to posts to get your post count up it appears.

Unix is very alive and well it is just not called unix any more. Every linux variant on the market is derived in one form or another from the same base version of unix. There are even commercial variants still being sold. The only reason nothing is called unix is all based on a bunch of copyright lawsuits.

transferring the file will be the simple part if you have the device on the network. A simple line mode FTP command will transfer the file and you can get free FTP servers for just about any OS. The hard part is going to be putting the IP address on ethernet interface. The exact command vary a bit since they put the interface in slightly different places based on the unix variant you have.

If you get really stuck you likely can do it the old way and use xmodem or zmodem and transfer it though the console connection. I would not recommend this method unless you can find no other way.
 
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+1 for FTP. Most UNIX variants have an FTP client and the protocol hasn't changed at all so it should still work just fine. All that OP needs is a network connection and an FTP server to dump it on.
 
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