On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:33, Alexander Rau (work) wrote: > In order for me to participate the submission process needs to be hassle > free and hopefully available for a M$ environment. Well, that's a difficult request; however, if M$ would just release their source code under a truly free license, then we could make building Fedora documentation under Windows hassle free. :-) ;-) If you have access to a Linux box from remote, such as one running at your home on broadband, you could try this method: 1. If you don't have an SSH client supplied on your Windows machine by your employer, grab a copy of PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/); this FL/OSS application has an SSH client, does SFTP, SCP and can support SSH tricks such as tunneling. 2. Shell into a remote Linux box (such as a Fedora Core install) where you have the FDP toolchain running. 3. Run your Emacs session as 'emacs -nw'; if you run it in a screen session, you provide yourself good protection against network or Windows problems messing up your work (see the screen manual page for more information). The best things about this method? * Your work is protected from any number of problems which are more likely to occur than a Fedora box going down -- network problems, power outages, Windows BSOD, etc. * The setup is considerably easier than getting cygwin, Emacs, cvs and ssh running under Win32. * You are safely doing your personal volunteer work on a remote system under your control, and not belonging to your employer. Then they have a harder time, for example, claiming copyright over anything you write while "on the clock". Of course, IANAL, so don't take this as advice on how to work on personal projects while on your employer's time. ^o_O^ - Karsten -- Karsten Wade : Tech Writer, RHCE : o: +1.831.466.9664 kwade@xxxxxxxxxx : http://rhea.redhat.com/ : c: +1.831.818.9995 Red Hat Enterprise Applications : WAF, CMS, Portal Server -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
