Re: a generic Windows 95/98 ssh client

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 06/04/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 03:22:17 GMT

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.40.0206031313100.28476-100000@lxplus033.cern.ch...
> On Jun 2, Nico Kadel-Garcia inscribed on the eternal scroll:
>
> > Putty is much lighter weight and easier to install,
>
> Both putty and ttssh have their attractions.
>
> ttssh has good support for printing to the "attached printer", which
> works very nicely with remote programs that offer such function (e.g
> Lynx, PINE etc.).
>
> On the other hand, putty supports utf-8, which is good for dealing
> with multilingual content.

Oh, yes. This helped save my ass the other day dealing with Japanese
filenames somebody had duped to a UNIX SMB server, and they were breaking
some scripts and messing up screens right and left.

> putty has the possible advantage that it fits easily on a standard
> diskette and can be carried around for use wherever (modulo some
> countries' laws against crypto software) one happens to be.

And you can stash a copy in your home directory, too, for systems where you
don't have priviledges to install local software in the various system
directories.

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