Re: a generic Windows 95/98 ssh client

From: Kenneth R. Robinette (support@securenetterm.com)
Date: 06/02/02 

From: "Kenneth R. Robinette" <support@securenetterm.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 23:36:27 -0500

The same question could be asked, what does putty have over the free OpenSSH
implementation using cygwin on Windows. It would be much more efficient for
both the college and putty programmers to improve OpenSSH, and add native
Windows extensions/support to OpenSSH.

Ken

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
news:KM4K8.7129$b73.6224@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
>
> "Steve Beaty" <beatys@mscd.edu> wrote in message
> news:ada0q0$e7j$1@enigma.mscd.edu...
> > The Metropolitan State College of Denver would like to announce the
> > availability of a beta version of a generic ssh client for Windows 95
and
> > 98. You can download both an executable and the source from:
> >
> > http://cs.mscd.edu/MSSH/index.html
> >
> > Documentation is included. We also have two email discussion lists, one
> > for users with questions and another for developers.
> >
> > News:
> > * we now have a much-improved installation procedure for all
> > Windows platforms
> >
> > Coming:
> > * ssh2
> > * threading
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Steve Beaty Assistant
Professor
> > Metro State College of Denver
http://clem.mscd.edu/~beatys/
>
> Well, Steve, that's good. But is there any feature or capability not
already
> handled by the many freeware implementations already available, such as
> Putty? Would it be more efficient to dedicate the programming time to
> enhancing already available freeware products, or do you have some
> requirement for maintaining the core source code yourselves? Why did you
> create this new SSH product?
>
>

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