Henry E Schaffer wrote: > David Andrews writes: >> Lionel B Dyck wrote: >>> PuTTY fork called KiTTY that was just recently >>> updated. It has all the PuTTY features (since it is a fork from it) and >>> more: >> >> ... plus a nasty limitation. From their website: >> >> "KiTTY is only designed for Microsoft Windows" > > I've only used PuTTY on MS Windows. There's no need for it on my Mac, > Solaris and Linux boxes. > > I.e., I don't think of that as being a limitation.
When I first used the IBM Linux Client for e-Business, one of my co-workers brought over PuTTY and genned it for Linux... and had some folks remark that "why bother when you have SSH and telnet?" There's a good reason to bother. Some terminal emulations don't work very well using SSH, for instance. And, more importantly, it is nice to be able to tune the behaviour of the backspace key... since some systems want to see 0x08 rather than the 0x7f or vice versa. (It have seen different Linux distros set the backspace key differently, BTW.) So there are reasons to want a competent terminal emulator on Linux... and, even more so, on Mac OS X. Now if only I could find a nice Linux/Unix gig down here by Tampa Bay. -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
