How to work offline
Windows users
Windows users may e.g. use putty.exe. Remember to connect via
ssh, not via Telnet.
Mac users
Mac users using OS 9 or earlier may access cochise via a program called
NiftyTelnet (downloadable from the NiftyTelnet
Homepage.). Mac users using Mac OS X has built-in SSH and a
terminal application. Just open the terminal, and type ssh
username@cochise.uit.no at your prompt (where 'username' is your
own user name at cochise).
Linux users
Linux users use the same ssh command as was described for Mac OSX above.
As long as you do not have the Xerox tools on your local machine, you
must be connected to cochise in order to compile the program, and in
order to use it. But you may read the documentation offline, and you
may edit the files offline, and thus be able to limit the amount of
time you need to be connected to the net. If you work from the
university, you might as well stay online.
When you have your connection up and running, download all the files
in the doc directory. Both NiftyTelnet (Mac), putty (Windows) and ssh
(MacOSX, Linux) have routines for doing that (see below under
Downloading files). Thereafter, you may read them in
any web browser (Netscape, Explorer, Opera, ...). Just make sure to
open the index.html file first, from that file you will have access to
all the other files.
The best thing to do is to have a good text editor. Do not use
Microsoft Word or any other word processor. Word processors and text
editors are two different things. Word processors are made to let the
text look nice, text editors are made to edit text. In this project,
we edit text. Word processors add secret code that makes text nice,
but this code only crashes our programs and hampers our work.
Editing files locally on Mac
For OS 9 or earlier, use BBEdit. You may eventually use
emacs on the mac as well. We will look into it if the need
arises. Note that in Mac OSX you do have emacs installed already.
Editing files locally on Windows
Use emacs on windows. Go to
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/ and download the file
emacs-21.2-bin-i386.tar.gz to a folder you may call "emacs" in your
program files folder. The file must then be opened with Winzip. If you
don't have Winzip, you can find it on http://www.winzip.com. Download the
evaluation version, store it in a folder among your program files, and
double click on it. Thereafter, go to the emacs folder and ouble click
on the emacs-21.2-bin-i386.tar.gz file. You are then presented with a
list of filenames in a window. Press ctrl-A (select all) and click on
the "extract" symbol. Save the files in the same emacs folder. When
you are done, you will find a folder "emacs-21.2" in your emacs
folder. Open it, open the bin folder, and drag the "emacs.exe" symbol
down to your task bar at the bottom of your screen.
Congratulations! You now have emacs for Windows.
Editing files locally on Linux
Use emacs, just as you do on cochise. Emacs is already installed on all
Linux machines.
For downloading files on Windows, see the description
on the putty page.
For downloading files on Mac, use Nifty Telnet. Open
a new connection with commando-N, then chose commando-S. In order to
download files from cochise to your local mac, type commando-2, and
thereafter the path and filename you want to copy. Note that you may
click on the "copy the content of nested folders" button in order to
copy whole directories.
For downloading files on Linux, use the scp
procedure. On the command line on your local Linux PC, write
(supposing your user name is trond) and you want to copy this file to
your local machine and call it off.html:
scp trond@cochise.uit.no:gt/doc/offline.html off.html
In order to copy files to cochise, just switch the arguments.
What may go wrong?
- I connect via putty or NiftyTelnet, but do not get any "username" prompt
-
- There may be a firewall active. Contact your system administrator
- Perhaps you forgot to use SSH instead of Telnet
- Perhaps you are not on the internet
- More trouble..?
- ..must be
Last modified: Fri Feb 21 10:51:47 GMT 2003