Connecting to the main computer victorio

All platforms will need a few initial tweaks to make them handle the Sámi characters, but if you already write Sámi on your computer it may be that it is set up correctly already. See the localisation page if you have problems.

Mac users

Mac users using Mac OS X have built-in SSH and a terminal application. Just open the terminal, and type ssh username@victorio.uit.no at your prompt (where 'username' is your own user name at victorio).

Mac users using OS 9 or earlier may access victorio via a program called NiftyTelnet (downloadable from the NiftyTelnet Homepage). But note that OS 9 does not handle Unicode

Linux users

Linux users use the same ssh command as was described for Mac OSX above.

Windows users

Windows users may e.g. use putty.exe. Remember to connect via ssh, not via Telnet. After we switched to Sámi letters internally, putty is not an ideal solution, since it for some reason is not able to write the letter č (all other Sámi letters work). (TODO: Check other terminal programs for Windows)

In order to read the documentation offline, you must have a program called forrest installed (se separate forrest documentation).

If you don't have forrest installed on your own machine, you may read the documentation online, on victorio (NB! forrest is not installed there yet).

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.

There is separate documentation on editors on the Tools page.

For downloading files on Windows, see the description on the putty page.

For downloading files on Linux and Mac, 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.xml:

scp trond@victorio.uit.no:gt/doc/offline.xml off.xml

In order to copy files to victorio, just switch the arguments.

What may go wrong?

I connect via putty or NiftyTelnet, but do not get any "username" prompt

1. There may be a firewall active. Contact your system administrator
2. Perhaps you forgot to use SSH instead of Telnet
3. Perhaps you are not on the internet

More trouble..?

..must be