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Philip Sargent
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<ul>
<li><a href="#well">Things that already work well with a Windows laptop</a><br />
- Editing the handbook webpages, typing up SVX files and transcribing the logbook, <br />
- Anything where the file-transfer to the expo surver is via the version control software (TortoiseHg or Git-for-Windows)
- Anything where the file-transfer to the expo server is via the git version control software
<li><a href="#problems">Things that cause problems</a><br />
- filenames and unintentional duplication because links are not understood by Windows,<br />
- sFTP or scp for more than a handful of files
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<h4>Symbolic links: the solution for Windows</h4>
<ul>
<li>When using the version control systems TortoiseHg or Git-for-Windows the download of a link works fine. But be careful not to edit the link file downloaded (it is just a text file holding the path of the file holding the actual contents) because then the version control client would upload it to the server and overwrite the link on the server with something that isn't a link. It also won't work as a Windows shortcut, but at least the default behaviour isn't actively dangerous.
<li>When using the git version control systems the download of a link works fine. But be careful not to edit the link file downloaded (it is just a text file holding the path of the file holding the actual contents) because then the version control client would upload it to the server and overwrite the link on the server with something that isn't a link. It also won't work as a Windows shortcut, but at least the default behaviour isn't actively dangerous.
<li>When using sFTP, manually check whether any files you are copying from the server are links - look at the symbol in Filezilla.
<li>Be careful not to copy any links using sFTP and instead recreate them manually on the Windows filesystem using right-click "Create shortcut".
<li>You will have to find out what to make the shortcut link to by logging in to the server (using a PuTTy ssh logon) and doing <span style="font-family:monospace; size=x-small; background-color: lightgray">"ls -l"</span> in the folder where the link is.