On Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Will Yardley wrote: > perhaps you could explain what functionality is missing in Putty that > SecureCRT has? for certain functions, SecureCRT is a lot better, but for > many users, Putty is easier to use and provides the desired
SecureCRT is just a lot more robust in pretty much every way. Session management I find infinitely better. One thing that pisses me off about Putty's is (correct me if I'm wrong) that if you make changes while the session is open, it doesn't give you the option to save it, just apply it to the current. And SCRT's mapped keys really saved my ass under Win2k. Entirely Logitech's fault, but SCRT allowed me to work around it perfectly. CRT also has context menus and great URL handling. I don't see any of that in Putty. And zmodem. I actually do use it when I am using SCRT. There is more, but I don't use either much anymore. > we have Windows users at our site that use both SecureCRT and Putty, and > some prefer one, some prefer another. i generally prefer Putty, and use > it when given a choice, but i don't use windows that much so i may be > missing some horrible problems.... Point taken. Putty is fine for basic functionality, but when you use it every day, the differences really show up. > i also find that i'm generally using putty in places where i don't > usually connect (ie my parent's house, a friend's house, or whatever), > and it's often a pain to install SecureCRT, whereas Putty is just a > simple exe file. I totally agree here. On friends' machines and such where I am sometimes, so I can ssh, I will always download putty.exe and drop it into their system/system32 directory so I can access it from Start -> Run. Very convenient, and they never need know it's there. > i haven't messed with it too much, but i don't think i've gotten the acs > characters working right in CRT, while they usually work fine in Putty. > as someone who uses Eterms or xterms most of the time, i don't find too > many things that i'm unable to do in Putty. I don't know what acs characters are, but you are right. It is general usability that makes the differences, and when you use it a lot, there are a lot. -Ken
