How move files through text (base64, etc)?

What kind of "Remote Desktop" -software do you use?

Are both machines the same OS, which OS?

If for example both are Windows machines and you use Microsoft's Remote Desktop, then you can simply copy text on your machine and paste it into the remote machine. (I just tested this from OS X to Windows)

The same features should apply for OS X machines and different OS'es over VNC.

Update

I tried this myself from OS X to windows through Microsoft's RDC.

Go to http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
Upload your file
encode it to base64
Go to the URL on the target machine
Paste base64 encoded string
set to decode
Select 'Output to binary file:'
Insert filename (I tried this with 'test.png')
Convert

deiga

Posted 2011-02-22T15:54:12.447

Reputation: 358

I'm using the built-in Microsoft client, and in this particular case I am on 32-bit XP with a remote session to 32-bit Server 2003 R2. Because text is the only thing that will copy/paste (files don't), I am trying to encode the remote files as text and then copy/paste them to my local machine. – wes – 2011-02-22T16:39:05.497

What base64 en/decoder do you use? – deiga – 2011-02-22T16:41:06.947

I had been trying Python's base64 module: b64encode, b64decode. Example: base64.b64encode(open('myfile.zip').read()) and open('myfile.zip', 'w').write(base64.b64decode('<previous result>'))

– wes – 2011-02-22T16:42:19.330

Hmm, can't test python on any target machine now, so don't know why that doesn't work. I don't see any flaws, though. Updated the answer. @wes – deiga – 2011-02-22T17:03:46.450

Alright, well your edit worked for me even on an encrypted 7z, so at least I know this is possible and I just need to tweak my implementation. Thanks! – wes – 2011-02-22T17:27:11.053

How move files through text (base64, etc)?

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