On Tuesday 17 March 2009 00:52:16 Paul Hartman wrote: > > So Putty doesn't really suck in isolation. It does work and can really > > operate any different way. Using Putty on it's host platform sucks to > > someone who is used to much more efficient way to accomplish the same > > task. > > Have you tried simply using openssh on Windows? Or is cmd.exe really > the problem? I prefer Putty because I can more easily copy and paste, > resize the window, scrollback, etc. versus the cmd.exe shell (which is > basically useless). I'm sure there are alternative windows command > shells (or you can use rxvt or something with cygwin)
This was the first time I had actually done something useful on Windows (apart from a quick browser surf here and there) for about a year. It's my girlfriend's machine and has putty so I used it. I'm in the lucky position of not needing Windows for anything whatsoever, so the annoyance of navigating putty once a year is far better than trying to install something else more to my liking (which I would never use of course) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
