[Csci1301] Re: your mail

[John Howland]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, John Howland wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Wiseman, Heather wrote:
> 
> > Dr. Howland,
> > How do I access and link up my webpage if I am off campus?
> 
> Heather, you access your web page by using a web browser
> (IE, Mozilla, Safari, etc. depending on machine and OS)
> and go to:
> 
> http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~hwiseman
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "link up".  If you mean
> "How can I create/change my cs web page", University
> firewall provides a barrier which makes this complicated.
> 
> Here are the steps:
> 
> 1)  Install putty on your machine (I'm assuming you are a Win
> user.  It is easier if you use Linux or Mac OS X on your machine).
> 
> Putty may be downloaded from:
> 
> http://www.cs.trinity.edu/ftp/pub/winxp-software/Putty/054/putty-0.54-installer.exe
> 
> 2)  Access http://www.cs.trinity.edu/ip-no.cgi and send me the
> ip number provided by your internet supplier so that I can enable
> a ssh (secure shell) hole in our firewall for your machine.
> 
> 3)  Using the newly installed putty program, Connect to our
> firewall machine (besure the select SSH)
> 
> Bianca.CS.Trinity.Edu
> 
> Once you are logged into Bianca, you should use the ssh program
> to login to the Xena machine of your choice where you can run J
> or use an editor to edit your web page or write lab reports.
> 
> This is done by using the command
> 
> ssh xena01 
> 
> on Bianca.
> 
> Unfortunately, the editor program gedit requires that your machine
> run an X server (a program you probably don't have unless you have
> a Linux or MacOS X machine--the program exists, but costs $$ unless
> you have Linux or MacOS X where it is included as a part of the
> operating system to make it easy to interact with non-Win systems which
> is something Redmond doesn't seem to want to do).
> 
> The solution is to learn (not hard to do) how to use the editor
> vi .  vi works in a normat terminal window.  See:
> 
> http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs101l/101.outline/vi-doc.html
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs101l/101.outline/vi-ref.html
> 
> for information on using vi.
> 
> Other vi links include:
> 
> http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhoward/vi/
> http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Editors/Vi/
> http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/vi/vi-in-10-1.html
> http://www.unix-manuals.com/

I should have added:

http://www.truth.sk/vim/vimbook-OPL.pdf

for a pdf version of the main book on vi (aka vim)

> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> >  Heather
> > 
> 
> 

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