[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315]

I'm not sure how it could be any easier..

Even in Windows with cygwin, doing the following works well and starting any
xterms from that session inherit the same agent..

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add

Uncle Bob.  No pointy-clicky stuff.  What could be easier?


[Andrew Cagney said:]
> 
> <start-key>cygwin<enter>
> 
> Having used both cygwin's ssh and putty, I've found managing SSH keys and 
> getting them to play nice with other tools much easier with PuTTY (pagent/plink) 
> than with ssh-agent.
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: "Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315" <bduncan at beachnet.org>
> To: u-u at mail.unixunanimous.org
> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 8:10:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [u-u] Terminal Emulation
> 
> Dave's into S&M..
> 
> You can even start cygwin with
> 
>    xterm  [your fav options]  &
> 
> You'd almost think you were home..
> 
> Dave has to drill down on those @#$%^& menus and set the options
> and click some more to start another one..
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> [David Gilbert said:]
> > 
> > On 5/9/2011 6:52 PM, Jim Mercer wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:32:58PM -0400, Vance Shipley wrote:
> > >> Putty is not a terminal emulator, which is what you really need.
> > > it seems to work quite nicely for me as 'xterm' or 'vt220'
> > 
> > I have never had a huge problem with putty and even fairly complex
> > terminal emulation (like, say, emacs).  Some people make the mistake
> > that putty is vt100 ... which it isn't.  It's xterm.
> > 
> > You might want to have a look at what your OS and your .bashrc set as
> > the default TERM variable.  xterms will always set the TERM variable
> > when they spawn a shell... but you may be arriving at your shell prompt
> > with a blank TERM or one that is set somewhat randomly.
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