Re: How to have PuTTY go in background only?

From: Scott W Reeve (swr@TheWorld.com)
Date: 02/14/02

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    From: swr@TheWorld.com (Scott W Reeve)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:01:17 GMT

    Thanks for the info. Actually, I am using plink (I meant putty
    in the general sense - I should have been more specific).

    I use plink with all of the options (user, password, port
    forwarding info, etc) and it works fine, but, like I said,
    it always brings up the window.

    The Unix SSH command allows one to do this; the -f option
    will connect but not give any shell. I'm hoping that I
    can do the same somehow with plink.

    The reason that I want to do it this way is because the
    extra window is simply not necessary to the application.
    The application will only be telnetting over the forwarded
    port(s) of the ssh tunnel.

    Scott Reeve

    In article <Hbg*RDRgp@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
    Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> wrote:
    >Scott W Reeve <swr@TheWorld.com> wrote:
    >> I want to have PuTTY (on a NT4.0 machine) be executed from another
    >> application. Is there a way to do this so that it just happens
    >> in the background? It always brings up that DOS-like window, and
    >> that is unnaceptable in my situation.
    >
    >Why do you want PuTTY to be executed if it doesn't display the
    >window you can put input into? Do you want to run it just to manage
    >port forwardings? Or do you want to run it and expect to pass data
    >to it from your `other application'?
    >
    >In either case, you might find the command-line utility Plink works
    >better for you.

    >--
    >Simon Tatham "Every person has a thinking part that wonders what
    ><anakin@pobox.com> the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking about."

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