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wiki/changelog.html

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   Oct 11, 2020:
     - 'ytalk' is reinstalled and the talk daemon is working again.
+    - 'unison' is installed
 
   Sep 28, 2020:
     - mosh compiled from source to support true color displays. you may need

wiki/index.html

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 - <a href="text-editors.html">Available Text Editors</a>
 - <a href="dotfiles.html">Dotfiles and customization</a>
 - <a href="you-have-mail.html">"You have mail." - login message won't go away</a>
-- <a href="unison.html"> The unison program - synchronizing files</a>
+- <a href="unison.html">The unison program - synchronizing files</a>
 - <a href="license.html">Copyright and Licensing</a>
 - <a href="changelog.html">System Changelog</a>
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wiki/unison.html

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 <pre>
+Unison is a tool that allows for the synchronization of files across servers
+that also have it installed. It is like rsync but works both ways.
 
+<b>All</b> options for this tool are included in a file stored in the .unison 
+folder in your home directory, called a profile. For connecting to a different 
+server, (tilde.club is an example of an exception to this.) a private key for 
+that server is required in order to connect. To set that up, 
+sshpref is the option to set to the value: '-i .ssh/<name of private key> '.
 
-</pre>
+To set an option the syntax is: option_name = value
+
+Even if you don't have a server to connect to, unison is great for merging 
+directories. Even on/to a Windows box.
+Instead of following the common practice of using double hyphens for long 
+flags on the comand line, a single is used for all.
+
+For your personal machine, there is a graphical interface availiable as 
+'unison-gtk' in APT, and very well could be in other packaging systems.
+However, it is best if the profiles are edited manually as the user interface
+does not do the best job of doing it for you.
+</pre>