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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
<h1>Logbooks</h1>
<p>As soon as possible after a trip finishes, a hand-written write-up of the trip is made in the nearest logbook:
<p>As soon as possible after a trip finishes, a <b>hand-written write-up</b> of the trip is made in the nearest logbook:
the base camp logbook or the top camp logbook. All these logbook entries are then typed into a laptop (often the expo laptop)
which is then synchronised the version control system.
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your speculations and ideas for what looks promising and what is obvious but doesn't go: things that are vital to future expoers. And please, please
do lots of sketches in the logbook.
<p>If you are at basecamp, then it is an excellent idea to
<b>type your logbook trip report</b> instead of writing it by hand - see <a href=#type">below</a>.
<p>The contents of both the topcamp logbook and the basecamp logbook are typed into the same
"logbook.html" file for archiving. The drawings are scanned and stored in the same place, and hand-edited
into the logbook.html file after expo finished.
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and <a href="survey/why.htm">why we make surveys</a> and then the
<a href="survey/index.htm">Survey Handbook</a>
<h3>Where the logbook computer file is kept</h3>
<h3 =id="type">Typing just your trip report</h3>
<p>If you are at basecamp, then it is an excellent idea to type up your logbook trip report.
You can then print this and stick it in the logbook, adding any sketches by hand.
This will save someone (probably you) deciphering your handwriting and typing it up later.
<p>These instructions assume that (a) you are sitting at the <em>expo laptop</em> and that someone who knows
the password has logged in for you (as user "expo"), and (b) that you know nothing about the software
systems used by expo.
<ul>
<li>You will type your trip report as plain text using a text editor.
<li>You will be typing into a file called something like "logbook-mynewtrip.txt" in the folder "Downloads"
<li>You will be asking someone nerdy to take this trip report and to edit it into the proper place later.
</ul>
<p>The first challenge is to find how to start up the text editor. The <em>expo laptop</em> is running debian Linux
with the Gnome 3.2 desktop manager, so click on "Activities" in the top left corner.
This will bring down a vertical menu of icons down the left hand side of the screen. Hovering
over the icons brings up a label, and the one you want is at (or near) the bottom with the label "Text editor". Click on it.
<p>If you are lucky this will bring up an empty window for a new file.
<br>If you are unlucky it will bring up the previous person's file.
<p>If it is a new file, save it to the Downloads folder (/home/expo/Downloads) using the "File->Save" menu
item and give it a sensible name such as "logbook-mynewtrip.txt".
<p>If it was someone else's file, save it using the "File->Save" menu. Then close the text editor ("File->Close").
Then start it up again from the vertical icon menu as before.
<p>Now type in your trip report using whatever format you like, but please leave a blank line between paragraphs.
<h3>Adding your trip to the logbook online file</h3>
<p>If you are using the <em>expo laptop</em> just edit this file:
<pre>
/home/expoweb/years/2018/logbook.html
</pre>
copy the format you can see other people have used;
and other people will take care of synchronising it with the version control system.
<p>
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<p>If you are using your own laptop then you will need to either:
<ul>
<li>Just type up your trip as a separate file, or just write it in an email, and send it to someone nerdish, or
<li>Just type up your trip as a separate file e.g. "logbook-mynewtrip.txt", or just write it in an email, and send it to someone nerdish, or
<li><a href="update.htm#manual">install and learn how to use</a> the version control software.
And you will need to synchronise regularly (every day) to
ensure that the updates from all the people entering trip data are OK and don't get overwritten by ignorant use of this software.
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<h3>Recommended procedure</a></h3>
<p>
Rather than editing logbook.html when you type up your trip, it is a much better
idea to type up your trip(s) in a separate file, e.g. "logbook-rt.html", and store it in the same
idea to type up your trip(s) in a separate file, e.g. "logbook-mynewtrip.txt", and store it in the same
place on the <em>expo laptop</em>, i.e.
<pre>
/home/expoweb/years/2018/