[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[Claude Morin]

I use both PuTTY and Cygwin's rxvt/OpenSSH, and don't have a problem with
either.

Does anyone have substantive information about PuTTY's shortcomings?  To
this point I've seen only invective.  Heck, PuTTY's terminal emulation
(sorry Vance: here's <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator> a
definition for you :-) even supports tall/wide characters.

What does SecureCRT do for me that PuTTY doesn't?  What functionality
justifies using a closed-source solution?

-klode

On 10 May 2011 16:19, Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315 <bduncan at beachnet.org>wrote:

> [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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