<div>I use both PuTTY and Cygwin's rxvt/OpenSSH, and don't have a problem with either.<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have substantive information about PuTTY's shortcomings? To this point I've seen only invective. Heck, PuTTY's terminal emulation (sorry Vance: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator">here's</a> a definition for you :-) even supports tall/wide characters.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What does SecureCRT do for me that PuTTY doesn't? What functionality justifies using a closed-source solution?<br><br></div><div>-klode</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On 10 May 2011 16:19, Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bduncan@beachnet.org">bduncan@beachnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
[Andrew Cagney said:]<br>
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> <start-key>cygwin<enter><br>
><br>
> Having used both cygwin's ssh and putty, I've found managing SSH keys and<br>
> getting them to play nice with other tools much easier with PuTTY (pagent/plink)<br>
> than with ssh-agent.<br>
><br>
><br>
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> ________________________________<br>
> From: "Bill Duncan, 416-697-9315" <<a href="mailto:bduncan@beachnet.org">bduncan@beachnet.org</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org">u-u@mail.unixunanimous.org</a><br>
> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 8:10:00 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [u-u] Terminal Emulation<br>
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> 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>
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