<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><start-key>cygwin<enter></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315" <bduncan@beachnet.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, May 9, 2011 8:10:00 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [u-u] Terminal
Emulation<br></font><br>Dave's into S&M..<br><br>You can even start cygwin with<br><br> xterm [your fav options] &<br><br>You'd almost think you were home..<br><br>Dave has to drill down on those @#$%^& menus and set the options<br>and click some more to start another one..<br><br>;-)<br><br><br>[David Gilbert said:]<br>> <br>> On 5/9/2011 6:52 PM, Jim Mercer wrote:<br>> > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:32:58PM -0400, Vance Shipley wrote:<br>> >> Putty is not a terminal emulator, which is what you really need.<br>> > it seems to work quite nicely for me as 'xterm' or 'vt220'<br>> <br>> I have never had a huge problem with putty and even fairly complex<br>> terminal emulation (like, say, emacs). Some people make the mistake<br>> that putty is vt100 ... which it isn't. It's xterm.<br>> <br>> You might want to have a look at what your OS and your .bashrc set as<br>> the
default TERM variable. xterms will always set the TERM variable<br>> when they spawn a shell... but you may be arriving at your shell prompt<br>> with a blank TERM or one that is set somewhat randomly.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> u-u mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org" href="mailto:u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org">u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org</a><br>> <a href="https://unixunanimous.org/mailman/listinfo/u-u" target="_blank">https://unixunanimous.org/mailman/listinfo/u-u</a><br>> <br><br><br>-- <br>Bill Duncan,<br><a ymailto="mailto:bduncan@beachnet.org" href="mailto:bduncan@beachnet.org">bduncan@beachnet.org</a><br>+1 416 697-9315<br>_______________________________________________<br>u-u mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org" href="mailto:u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org">u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org</a><br><a
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