How to get into your Yoyo account from Windows

(the quick and dirty guide)

Created: 31/1/02 12:39 pm

Last Updated: Wed Sep 18 18:09:10 EST 2002

This guide is meant to be helpful...cooked up in about 10 minutes during a CSE1303 lecture. It was linked to the summer school website for year 2002, but with some quick edits, it’s a Yoyo document. Yes I’m slack – shoot me. -- Colin

To Telnet to Yoyo

Click Start->Run, and type either command or cmd (to get to a DOS Command Prompt).
Type telnet yoyo.its.monash.edu.au
Login with your Yoyo username and password.
You might want to adjust the window size, because the fonts differ. Clicking Maximise (the middle button, next to the X will do this).
You are now in your Linux shell. There's no X Windows, but you can edit, create, and even e-mail files away! You can type vim filename.c and it wil run just fine - use it like how you normally use VIM. Pico, or anything you can think of exists. You can use gcc from the command line. It’s like your own physical terminal!!
Do one of the following things now:

use vi/vim to edit a file
use gcc to compile a file
e-mail others
transfer files to your Linux account

To end, just type exit.

To e-mail:

(There are other ways to do this, and you can also POP your e-mail from Yoyo. This is just one way.)

Type pine at the command prompt
Hit Return, and you'll see a screen display.
To compose an e-mail message, hit the C key.
Enter the To: information, and to scroll to the attachment section, just scroll down with the arrow keys.
To attach the prac, hit Ctrl+T, and it will take you to a list of files
Select the file, and hit Enter
Enter the Subject
Hit Ctrl+X to send the message (then Y to confirm)
To quit Pine, hit the Q key (then Y to confirm)

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To transfer files from Windows to Linux

You will be using an application called ftp (File Transfer Protocol)
Click Start->Run and type in command or cmd
Change the directory to the one where your file is stored in (using cd c:\somedir)
Now type ftp yoyo.its.monash.edu.au
Login using your Yoyo username and password
Now type, send filename
If you are in the incorrect local directory, you can still use lcd \somelocaldir
Type ls (to list files on your Yoyo account) to make sure the file was sent
To quit, just type quit, and it'll exit FTP.

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Comments, brickbats, etc... byte@yoyo.its.monash.edu.au.