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Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.
Alternatively, you could try installing PuTTy on your H:/ drive where it will remain saved after you log off.
Anyway.
After you've clicked on the RedBrick button (or used login.redbrick.dcu.ie) you should get somemthing that looks like this:
[[Image:Login1.jpg]]
Only instead of "newb" as used here, you insert your own username (note: if you make a spelling mistake with your username with PuTTY and press return, you will have to close PuTTY and start all over again because PuTTY is weird like that). After you press return you will then be asked for your account password like so:
[[Image:Login2.jpg]]
Don't worry that nothing comes up when you type your password in, it's a unix thing, the password is still being entered.
And that's it! You're officially on RedBrick, congratulations. It should look something like this:
[[Image:Login3.jpg]]
Now, I'm sure you're wondering about all the fun things you can get up to. Well to start with you could try typing "help" to give a brief list of available commands:
[[Image:Help.jpg]]
Fun times.
The best step would probably be to type chat.
[[Image:Login4.jpg]]
...and hit return. This will cause this to appear:
[[Image:Login5.jpg]]
You've come so far in such a short space of time. It's time to move on to the [[IRC]] wiki page.


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