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<p>The list of software:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> - distributed version control system - already installed on Linux probably</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/">mercurial</a> - distributed version control system (to be deprecated during 2020)</li>
<li><a href="../fzconfig.html">Filezilla</a> - ftp GUI software with a configuration file to get to the expo server</li>
<li><a href="https://survex.com/download.html">Survex</a>, including the Aven visualisation tool.
<li><a href="https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx">Tunnel</a>: 2.5D cave drawing program based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
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<p></p>None of this works until you set up the key-pair setup using PuTty/Pageant.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY</a> including pagent. Version 0.73 was released on 2019-09-29. You need this to generate and to use ssh keys on Windows. Otherwise none of git, mercurial, scp, ftp or rsync will work. It includes command line tools ssh, scp (pscp) and sFTP (psftp).
<li><a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY</a> including pagent. Version 0.73 was released on 2019-09-29. You need this to generate and to use ssh keys on Windows. Otherwise none of git, scp, ftp or rsync will work. It includes command line tools ssh, scp (pscp) and sFTP (psftp).
<li><a href="https://desktop.github.com/">GitHub Desktop for Windows</a> - yes this works with the expo server
<li><a href="">VS Code</a> is a free (but not FOSS) editor with in-built git capability and plug-ins which render git branches graphically. Also available for Linux.
<li><a href="https://gitforwindows.org/">Git for Windows</a> - not as simple to use as it looks
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<h2><a name="configuration">Configuration</a></h2>
<p>You need to <a href="keyexchange.html">register a key with the expo server</a> to get upload (i.e. read/write) access. Do this first, Without it none of git, mercurial, scp, ftp or rsync will work.
<p>You need to <a href="keyexchange.html">register a key with the expo server</a> to get upload (i.e. read/write) access. Do this first, Without it none of git, scp, ftp or rsync will work.
You can do this entirely on your own if you have access to the <i>expo laptop</i> to upload and install the public key generated by your laptop.</p>
<p>On a Windows machine you will need to configure pageant (the putty authentication agent)
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<h3>Cheat lists and quick reminders</h3>
<ul>
<li>Quick <a href="qstart-git.html">reminders for using git</a> at the command line.
<li>Quick <a href="qstart-hg.html">reminders for using mercurial</a> at the command line. (to be removed during 2020)
<li>Quick <a href="qstart-rsync.html">reminders for using rsync</a> at the command line.
<li>Quick <a href="qstart-rsync.html">reminders for using rsync</a> at the command line.
</ul>
<h3>Logins to external systems</h3>