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@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ same way in WSL1 and WSL2 - but see "Do you feel lucky, punk" below...)
<p>[We are not the only people to find this <a href="https://www.ubackup.com/windows-10/rsync-windows-10-1021.html">nasty and irritating</a>. Other
hacks are to use the obsolescent cygwin rsync or the rsync packaged within bash within more recent versions of 'Git for Windows' (which is built on <a href="https://www.msys2.org/docs/what-is-msys2/">MYSYS2</a>.
If you are already familiar with any of these, then use them and not WSL.]
<h4>WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux</h4>
<p>[On 23 November 2022 a new way of installing and using WSL was announced, see <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/23/wsl_microsoft_store_default_version/">
Windows Subsystem for Linux now packaged as a Microsoft Store app</a> so all documentation on this expo site needs to be revised.]
<p>So on a machine with WSL enabled, create an ordinary cmd window and get into the WSL environment using the wsl command:<br />
<span style="font-family:monospace; size=x-small; background-color: lightgray">
D:\CUCC-Expo\expoweb\ <font color=red>wsl</font>
@@ -185,6 +189,8 @@ href="https://hackaday.com/2017/03/29/swan-better-linux-on-windows/">Swan</a>.
<li><img src="wsl.jpg" align="right" hspace="10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux">Windows Subsystem for Linux</a> aka
WSL available on all Windows10 machines since November 2019.
<ul>
<li>[On 23 November 2022 a new way of installing and using WSL was announced, see <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/23/wsl_microsoft_store_default_version/">
Windows Subsystem for Linux now packaged as a Microsoft Store app</a> so all documentation on this expo site needs to be revised.]
<li>WSL <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install">Install it like this</a>. This does what we need. This works using a key generated
by its own version of ssh-keygen if you follow the instructions above about putting it in the right place.
<li>WSL: <a href="https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/linux-fu-wsl-tricks-blur-the-windows-linux-line/"> Converting Windows paths to Linux paths and