Sorry, sent this mail with a reply to the original author, here's to the main list. And sorry to Andrew DeFaria for the double mail.
>?NightStrike wrote: >>?I personally use putty because the putty console window is superb, >?How is it "superb"? I agree, the DOS box window sucks. I, however, use >?rxvt, which is, IMHO, superb! >>?and because it allows incredibly easy access to all of the many >>?features of an ssh client. >?Really? What features does an ssh client have that really needs >?accessing or a special program to access? >>?Plus, it supports both telnet and ssh, >?Hmmmm... Bash/rxvt/cygwin support telnet, ssh, rsh and a whole bunch of >?other things.... >>?can handle a bazillion code pages / character sets (the most important >>?being UTF-8), >?You might have me there. UTF-8 is not important to me. I think there are >?UTF-8 solutions for say rxvt but again, as I don't need them, I don't >?seek them out. >>?offers great logging support, per-connection profiles, complete >>?control over hotkeys, easy handling of Backspace, >?How hard is it to handle a backspace? (And yeah I'm familiar with the >?issues). >>?one-click access to the alternate terminal screen buffer (for >>?applications like vi), etc etc etc... >?What's an "alternate terminal screen buffer"? >>?If you have Windows, why NOT use putty? >?Simple: Because it's yet another application I need to find, download, >?install, patch and otherwise babysit. Also, it's "different". >?Taking a more strict "everything comes in Cygwin and works well >?together" approach seems to serve me very well over the years. There's >?not much difference in thought between "hey I'm working on >?Solaris/Linux/HP-UX, etc." and "hey I'm working on Cygwin". I don't need >?a special program for just one aspect such as Putty for ssh/telnet, >?Reflection/X for an X server, ActiveState for Perl, etc., etc. - I just >?download and install Cygwin. Then everything under Cygwin is much like >?everything under Linux (yes, yes I know it's not exactly the same but >?it's a lot more similar then say Putty vs. ssh). I have personally been using puttycyg here(or to be exact a homemade build that incorporates both puttycyg and many other putty patches) for optimal use. That way I can use putty as a normal term and when I need to ssh, I just use the normal ssh cygwin client from a putty term. Also I used to have problems when closing putty with the bash processes staying alive, but have not seen that problem recently. (when puttycyg is alt+f4/force closed, the process also get a sighup I think, or something strong enough to tell them to die) Just my 2cents. Paul-Kenji Cahier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
