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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Programmers manual</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Your Windows laptop</h2>
<h1>Setting up an Expo laptop - using Microsoft Windows</h1>
<p>A work in progress...
<h3>Things that already work well</h3>
<h3>Things that cause problems</h3>
<h3>Things that are really, really hard</h3>
<hr />
<div id="menu">
<ul id="links">
<li><a href="../index.htm">Handbook</a>
<li><a href="../../infodx.htm">Main index</a></li>
</ul>
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</body>
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<head> <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Programmers manual</title> <title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Programmers manual</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" />
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<li>Windows machines can do almost everything needed (rsync is a problem), but some useful software has no Windows version and you will need to find your own equivalents. There are also dangerous 'gotchas' to look out for because the file-naming system is different. Do use Linux if you can. <li>Windows machines can do almost everything needed (rsync is a problem), but some useful software has no Windows version and you will need to find your own equivalents. There are also dangerous 'gotchas' to look out for because the file-naming system is different. Do use Linux if you can.
<li><a href="winlaptop.html">A Windows laptop for expo</a> - a page of more detailed instructions for those who are definitely going to be using a Windows PC or laptop.
<li>WSL: the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The first release of this didn't do the ssh key exchange process easily. The <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10">2019 WSL2 release</a> includes a complete Linux kernel. If you want to use this, then please do - and then write the handbook documentation too. But beware that it has <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-index">two different modes</a> which behave differently. <li>WSL: the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The first release of this didn't do the ssh key exchange process easily. The <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10">2019 WSL2 release</a> includes a complete Linux kernel. If you want to use this, then please do - and then write the handbook documentation too. But beware that it has <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-index">two different modes</a> which behave differently.
<li>Mac users will need to use the Linux documentation as a guide and work it all out for themselves. <li>Mac users will need to use the Linux documentation as a guide and work it all out for themselves.
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<p>The handbook has documents where it is necessary to use scp or sftp to manage large files in 'expofiles'. See <a href="../upload-expert.html">Experts: Uploading files</a>, <a href="../uploading.html">Uploading files</a> and <a href="../gpxupload.html">Uploading GPS tracks</a>. Only machines which have done the key exchange process can do scp, sftp or rsync. <p>The handbook has documents where it is necessary to use scp or sftp to manage large files in 'expofiles'. See <a href="../upload-expert.html">Experts: Uploading files</a>, <a href="../uploading.html">Uploading files</a> and <a href="../gpxupload.html">Uploading GPS tracks</a>. Only machines which have done the key exchange process can do scp, sftp or rsync.
<h3>Learning how to use this software</h3> <h3>Learning how to use this software</h3>
<img src="/expofiles/tunnelwiki/wiki/images/6/65/Banner204.png" align="right" width=450> <img src="/expofiles/tunnelwiki/wiki/images/6/65/Banner204.png" align="right" width=450>
<p>For Survex, Tunnel and Therion, see the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/handbook/survey/">Expo Surveying Handbook</a>. <ul>
<li>Using Survex, Tunnel and Therion, see the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/handbook/survey/">Expo Handbook - Surveying section</a>.
<p><em>For installing Survex, Tunnel etc. see <a href="../getsurvex.html">this page</a> which will be merged in here eventually.</em> <li><em>For installing Survex, Tunnel etc. see <a href="../getsurvex.html">this page</a> which will be merged in here eventually.</em>
<p><a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/tunnelwiki/wiki/pages/Tunnel.html">The Tunnel tutorial</a> - installation notes and a wiki of examples and tutorials <li><a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/tunnelwiki/wiki/pages/Tunnel.html">The Tunnel tutorial</a> - installation notes and a wiki of examples and tutorials
<p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/goatchurch/tunnelx/src/default/">bitbucket.org/goatchurch/tunnelx</a> - documentation and source code in the bitbucket repository system. <li><a href="https://bitbucket.org/goatchurch/tunnelx/src/default/">bitbucket.org/goatchurch/tunnelx</a> - documentation and source code in the bitbucket repository system.
</ul>
<h3>Cheat lists and quick reminders</h3> <h3>Cheat lists and quick reminders</h3>
<p>Quick <a href="qstart-hg.html">reminders for using mercurial</a> at the command line. <ul>
<p>Quick <a href="../manual.html#quickstart">reminders for using rsync and mercurial</a> at the command line. <li>Quick <a href="qstart-hg.html">reminders for using mercurial</a> at the command line.
<li>Quick <a href="../manual.html#quickstart">reminders for using rsync and mercurial</a> at the command line.
</ul>
<h3>Complementary tools</h3> <h3>Complementary tools</h3>
<p>When maintaining the HTML files in the expo handbook a link-checker is useful to report bad URLs (links to external sites go bad regularly) and to find orphaned pages with no in-links. The website has <a href="https://www.klebos.net/subdomains/keldos/LinkScans/TUNNEL-wiki-link-report.html">about 2,000 internal URLs</a> in just the Tunnel wiki section alone. <p>When maintaining the HTML files in the expo handbook a link-checker is useful to report bad URLs (links to external sites go bad regularly) and to find orphaned pages with no in-links. The website has <a href="https://www.klebos.net/subdomains/keldos/LinkScans/TUNNEL-wiki-link-report.html">about 2,000 internal URLs</a> in just the Tunnel wiki section alone.
<ul> <ul>
<li><a href="https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/">Online brokenlinkcheck tool</a> - does not install on your laptop <li><a href="https://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/">Online brokenlinkcheck tool</a> - does not install on your laptop. Limited to 3,000 pages.
<li><a href="http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html">Xenu Link Sleuth</a> - on Windows <li><a href="https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/website-dead-link-checker.asp">Another online brokenlinkcheck tool</a> - does not install on your laptop. Limited to 2,000 pages but breadth-first rather than depth-first, so it covers a different chunk of the expo website.
<li><a href="http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html">Xenu Link Sleuth</a> - install on Windows to do comprehensive link check.
<li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-find-broken-links-on-your-website-using-wget-on-debian-7">Linkchecking with wget</a> - command line methods on Linux <li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-find-broken-links-on-your-website-using-wget-on-debian-7">Linkchecking with wget</a> - command line methods on Linux
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