[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[Vance Shipley]

A terminal emulator emulates terminals.  It's job is to act
as identically as possible to the terminal it is emulating.

PuTTY emulates only one terminal, you can't select which type it is,
and it does so minimally.  SecureCRT has many types it supports and
it does a very good job at it.

	-Vance

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:47:40PM -0400, Claude Morin wrote:
}  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