On 2009-03-16, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: >> > I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all >> > this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was >> > dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was >> > panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 >> > months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to >> > rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks >> > worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia >> > Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) >> >> What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems >> to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port >> devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations. > > Putty itself isn't too bad if you look at it as a Windows app. > It can never be anything other than a Windows app
That's odd -- the Linux version works fine for me. http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-0.60.tar.gz -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I hope I bought the at right relish ... zzzzzzzzz visi.com ...
