On 2014-09-17 1:21 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 09/17 12:55 , Gerald Brandt wrote: >> I've been tasked with backing up an old QNX 4.23A system. From what I >> can see, the box doesn't have ssh, ftp, rsync (or rsyncd), or smb. >> >> Is anyone backing something like this up? If so, how. > How do you transfer files to/from it for business purposes? Sneakernet? > > One of the more creative hacks I ever heard of was in a lab where it was not > allowed to change any of the hardware on a given computer, but it was still > desired to automate (to some extent) data transfer to it. The solution was > to get a barcode reader that interfaced as a keyboard (this was back in the > PS/2 keyboard days), and use a barcode printer to send data to the reader. > Obviously a low-data-rate solution, but apparently useful in the > circumstances. > It has an ftp client, but no server.
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