So, I've been banging my head against my desk for a few days now trying to figure out the best way to get data on to a Xenix instance and I'm hitting some roadblocks. Vi doesn't seem to want to cooperate over a terminal connection for direct text input and my complete unfamiliarity with ed isn't helping either. Xenix obviously doesn't have xmodem or kermit as options, which leaves cu/uucp, but I am also completely unfamiliar with how cu on Lisa Xenix is supposed to work. The manual is less than clear about how cu connections over serial should work exactly; I'd have hoped it would have included an example but, eh. I've thought about going the floppy disk route, but I'm uncertain if that's even viable. If I formatted a floppy disk/image (via FloppyEmu), would it just be the standard SYSV format or did Lisa Xenix use some other format? I can't find any direct indication as to what it would format the disk as, so it's a mystery to me at the moment how Linux would even handle that. I've so far been unsuccessful at trying to get Linux to mount the ProFile image as a SYSV volume (which it should be able to do).
Does anyone have any proper experience working with serial connections in Lisa Xenix to more modern systems beyond a direct terminal connection or, alternatively, moving files via physical/virtual media? If anyone's got some practical experience with cu/uucp on the Lisa that could throw some pointers/advice my way, I'd be incredibly grateful. Or, like I said, if anyone's managed to use media to move data back and forth between Xenix and more modern systems that would be fantastic knowledge as well. Either way, I'd prefer not to have to type a rather large amount of C...
Edit - Also, had a RAM card go bad and cause a kernel panic while trying to get cu to work, so that was an interesting experience getting to see a KP happen in a 40 year old Unix distro, lol.