-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Campbell wrote: > > 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.
That's an interaction between your originating terminal program, and your remote TERM session. For instance, on my mac laptop, I use iTerm for most work with a remote TERM setting of "xterm-color". However, I occasionally fall back to the Mac OS supplied "Terminal.app" with a remote TERM of "vt100" or "ansi" to get some curses applications to work right. > 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.) If the box you're ssh'ing to is a *nix box (and what else would it be to run an ssh server???) then you can simply use "stty erase ..." on the remote box to set the appropriate backspace v. delete behavior. - -- Pat -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoRjakACgkQNObCqA8uBsyyewCgo8M/hO52MwhlzNu0SZ46OPUE RXAAn14L5ml4/287tmKwDLj1QoywT2nO =CQbP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
