[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[Hello Kittyhawk]

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Vance Shipley wrote:
|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?
|
|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.


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