Hi. Do you guys have suggestions on how I can edit just a few lines of
a large file (a dozen or so MB) over a not-very-fast connection? The
rest of the code is left unchanged. I was pointed to a very clumsy
method using cat & a "split" command (forgot what it was), but it would
be nicer if I would only need to transmit the lines I changed
At the moment I am compressing/uncompressing at both ends because I am
lucky that the files can be compressed well. However as I am doing it
in Windows it is still a painWinSCP doesn't do the
compression/decompression automatically for you (as opposed to scp -C
user@192.168.0.2:/home/user/asdf). Actually if you guys know how any
free file transfer client that automatically compresses the data
streams I'd be grateful :) (btw, I tried checking the enable
compression in the SSH option for WinSCP and it has no visible effect).
Thanks.

Thanks guys, I mistakenly thought vim download/uploaded the whole file
like other text editors.

20 Aug 2005 16:17:20 -0700, Random Penguin wrote:
Thanks guys, I mistakenly thought vim download/uploaded the whole file
like other text editors.

I don't think you're understanding. You run vim on the remote machine.
All that gets transmitted is what appears in the terminal window.

Bob T.

Random Penguin wrote:
Thanks guys, I mistakenly thought vim download/uploaded the whole file
like other text editors.

If you SSH to the remote system, no text editor would need to
upload/download the file, since you would actually be logged into, and
processing on, the remote system. As someone mentioned, BTW, on Windows
you can use Putty to connect through SSH.

Jeff

K, thanks. BTW, how do I get GUI windows through SSH? I get this error
when I try:
WARNING: can't make an X connection to Display:
Check DISPLAY environment variable.

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:34:52 -0700, Random Penguin wrote:

K, thanks. BTW, how do I get GUI windows through SSH? I get this error
when I try:

WARNING: can't make an X connection to Display:
Check DISPLAY environment variable.

You don't unless you use an X Window display on your Windose box. Neither
do you need a GUI to use vi; it is a terminal based text editor.

Neither do you need a GUI to use vi; it is a terminal based text editor.

Yeah, I've already tried vi. The thing isn't with vi, it is that some
programs like CAD tools need a GUI and I don't know how to get one
remotely.

Would something like VNC work over a 512/256 kbps ADSL modem? The CAD
models are sluggish even when run locally on my home PC (AMD XP 2500+,
1GB DDR333 RAM).

Thanks.

Random Penguin wrote:
>>Neither do you need a GUI to use vi; it is a terminal based text editor.
>
>
Yeah, I've already tried vi. The thing isn't with vi, it is that some
programs like CAD tools need a GUI and I don't know how to get one
remotely.

Would something like VNC work over a 512/256 kbps ADSL modem? The CAD
models are sluggish even when run locally on my home PC (AMD XP 2500+,
1GB DDR333 RAM).

Thanks.

I would not have got your CAD requirement from your original post. VNC
would certainly work, but would probably be painfully slow - might be
okay for a one-time job, but would probably drive you crazy if you
needed to do it regularly. You might try to fine-tune the description
of what you're trying to do. Also, are you on a local Windows machine
connecting to a remote Linux machine? Local Linux to remote Windows?
?

Jeff

Hiya Jeff. I am a student and am currently working from home as my
research at this stage is mostly computational.

My home PC is a dual boot system with Win XP and SuSE 9.2. My college
PC runs SuSE 9.2 (64-bit). So although it is remote Linux, it can be
either local Windows/Linux, although I prefer local Windowsthe Linux
mouse drives me nuts*, my Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro isn't recognised
(yes I've tried fixing both) and messes up spreadsheets.
I'll give a proper shot at sorting these problems out when I do get
some holidays

Now, as for a description of my workI need to edit some long input
files, which is fed into a finite element analysis program. This is
where the text editor comes in. I've played around with vim and maybe
it is just my inexperience showing, but the copy & paste which is
essential to my text editing (because the input files are *very* picky
about formats - press Num Lock or Tab and the program crashes). Can vim
copy & paste with a Ctrl-C analogue? I find that the two mouse buttons
simultaneously is a bit clumsy and as I said, the input formatting must
be *exact*.

the text editing is complete, I run the finite element analysis.
When it is done, I need to use a GUI package (only in Linux) to inspect
the results. At the moment I do this by downloading the files,
rebooting to Linux at home and checking it. I'd love to do this
remotely.

As a guideline, a 10 frame/second animation of it in .gif format is
already several megabytes.

*Really, the Linux mouse almost gives me a sense of claustrophobia.
When I play FPS games I have the sensitivity at about 15 and manage
headshots just fine, I'm that much of a "hyper" person. The Windows
mouse speed on max is barely tolerable for me as well. From what I've
read, quite a few of people complain about the Linux mouse, but I've
seen the same max speeds in all the distros I've tested.

Thanks Jeff.

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:52:12 +0200, Michael Heiming wrote:

Excellent advice. Curious how people put down stuff they don't
have any clue about, one of if not the most powerful editor at
all and people ask about this "Affengriff".;(

Full ack.

Somehow like comparing abetter (doze editor) with Michael
Schumacher's Ferrari (vim). ;-)

You would not have made that comparison if you had seen today's qualifying
laps at Istanbul :-))