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- Installation for Windows (using Cygwin)


Note : Go directly to step 13, MoShell Installation, if you have already installed and configured Cygwin previously.

Prerequisite:
Java Run-Time Environment 1.2.2 or higher must be installed on the workstation. Java 1.3.1_15 or 1.3.1_16 is recommended because it uses the least amount of memory and supports all features on MoShell.
Use this link Java 1.2.2

When running on Windows, Moshell uses a unix emulator known as Cygwin. 2.8.0 ( Latest version )

Getting and installing cygwin.
1. Go to the website Cygwin
2. Click on Install Now
3. Save the setup.exe file, then execute it.
4. Choose Install from internet, click Next
5. Root Directory C:\cygwin (It is not recommended to choose a different directory, especially if it contains spaces)
IMPORTANT: Default Text File Type should be set to UNIX (NOT DOS !!! otherwise ftp transfers get corrupted). Then click Next.
6. Select Internet Connection: put the proxy settings (generally use IE5 settings works with ESOE PCs). Click Next.
7. Select Packages: Add the following packages:
• under Archive select unzip
• under Interpreters select perl
• under Net select inetutils, openssh, and openssl
• under Shells select rxvt
• optional: under Editors select vim (if you want to be able to edit files with vi)

8. Click Next, install will start...

9. In the directory C:\Cygwin ,double-click on the file cygwin.bat. This will startup the Cygwin window and create some files. Now close the Cygwin window.
Open an editor and edit the file cygwin.batch (MS-DOS Batch file) – click right button and edit.
Delete the line: bash --login -i. At the end of the file add the following (replace xxxx with your user id):

set USER=xxxx
set HOME=/home/xxxx
set SHELL=/bin/bash
rxvt -sl 65000 -e /bin/bash --login -i

IMPORTANT: Make sure that there are no spaces at the end of the lines otherwise the windows environment variables don’t get set correctly and your .Xdefaults file will not be read (meaning that rxvt looks horrible!).

10. Open the file C:\Cygwin\etc\profile in a text editor and add the following 6 lines at
the end of the file (replace XXXX with your user id!):

export USER=XXXX
export HOME=/home/XXXX
export SHELL=/bin/bash
mkdir -p $HOME
cd $HOME
source $HOME/.bashrc

11. Edit the file C:/Cygwin/etc/passwd in a text editor and make sure that there is a row with your username and home directory. If the home directory (found towards the end of the line) looks like /cygdrive/h then replace this with /home/youruserid (replace youruserid with your user id!!). This is needed for ssh to function properly.

12. Start a Cygwin Terminal window by clicking on the icon in start menu or on desktop, then run the following commands: (Start program cygwin)
Create the following 3 files in your /home/youruserid directory: .bashrc, .inputrc, and .Xdefaults

This can be done with the commands:
touch .bashrc
touch .inputrc
touch .xdefaults

13. Go to the directory C:\Cygwin\home\XXXX (from windows explorer) and open the following 3 files in a text editor:

In the .bashrc file, put the following lines:
(Delete all and copy all from .bashrc working file.) change XXXX with your user id

unset PROMPT_COMMAND
export PS1="\[\033[1m\][\w]\\$\[\033[0m\] "
alias ls=’ls -FX’
set -o notify
set -o ignoreeof
shopt -s cdspell
shopt -s cdable_vars
shopt -s checkhash
shopt -s checkwinsize
shopt -s sourcepath
shopt -s histappend
export PATH=$PATH:/home/XXXX/moshell

The last line appends the moshell directory to your $PATH. This will enable you to call moshell from any directory.
In the .inputrc file, put the following lines:
(Delete all and copy all from .inputrc working file.)

set bell-style visible
set convert-meta Off
set output-meta On
set input-meta On
set completion-ignore-case on
set completion-query-items 150
set mark-directories on
set visible-stats On
set show-all-if-ambiguous On
set expand-tilde On
"\e[D": backward-char
"\e[C": forward-char
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
"\e[8~": end-of-line
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": menu-complete
"\M-[2~": paste-from-clipboard # Insert
"\M-q": menu-complete
"\C-d": delete-char
"\C-l": clear-screen
"\C-xdf": dump-functions
"\C-xdv": dump-variables
"\C-xdm": dump-macros

(Type man bash if you want to get more information about what these lines do)

In the .Xdefaults file, put the following lines:
(Copy all from .Xdefauts working file.)

Rxvt*background: Black
Rxvt*foreground: White
Rxvt*saveLines: 65535
Rxvt*termName: xterm
Rxvt*geometry: 143x64+0+0
Rxvt*loginShell: true
Rxvt*font: "Lucida Console-11"
Rxvt*cutchars: ‘"’&()*,;<=>? []{|}

These are just examples of terminal properties, you can change them to fit your needs.
Type man rxvt to view all available properties.

14. Open a new cygwin terminal window. The window should be black with white text and the prompt should like this: [~]$
If not, then go through the last 4 steps again and make sure you haven’t missed out anything.

15. Moshell installation (Run program cygwin)
Follows these steps if you already have a working Cygwin environment.
• Put the moshellxxx.zip file in c:\cygwin\tmp (copy moshell16.0zip file here)
• Open the cygwin shell and go the /tmp directory.

Link download      Moshell 11.0b
                                Moshell 18.0m
                                Moshell 19.0c

Run the following:

Cd /tmp
unzip -o moshellxxx.zip
bash moshell_install

# You can go home (C:/cygwin/home) copy moshell and moshell logfile folder from
working file.

16. Running moshell for the first time
If you have set the PATH variable correctly in your ~/.bashrc file, you should be
able to run moshell from any directory.

Example : moshell 169.254.1.1

# If unknown command --- go home (C:/cygwin/home/moshell) check jarxml file and copy from working jarxml file.

Working Jarxml with complete MoM

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