Opensource filePro Project

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:18:01AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> >> Even though I'm still not yet using PuTTY in main production, I am
> >> more pleased with the $2k I've spent on that than any of the several
> >> other $2k that we've spent on FacetWin licences. 
> > 
> > You've given Simon $2K?
> > 
> > I'm glad I already got to shake your hand in the last 12 months... :-)
> 
> No, sorry, some other random developers. Can I still be pleased that
> I've shaken yours though anyways? Or must I give it back? :)

Hee.  I misunderstood you.

> If Simon would ever in a million years hack in
> run-program-escape-sequence, and the ability to store a name &
> password right in a plain text config file (password can be encrypted
> of course), into putty I'd happily pay him for it though.
>
> They seem to be rather picky about what they allow in or what they
> will deign to work on.

Indeed.  But if you waved a few hundred dollars in front of them, they
might do it anyway.  On the second point, any reason why you can't use
pass-phraseless key files?

Yeah; I'd like r-p-e-s as well.  It's not *that* hard to build putty on
Windows, though...

> All my other wishes are benign and probably no problem at least at
> the ideological level Some are already on the todo list, like picking
> the default windows printer automatically and the printer-off timeout
> flusher (vs immediate flush at every printer-off). And some have
> been implimented elsewhere such as saving config in a file instead
> of the registry. Some features I don't need but are nice have been
> implimented elsewhere too, such as clickable url's and multiple
> tabbed sessions in one window                                        .

They *did* tabbed-window?  Wow; I gotta go catch up. 

Cheers,
-- jra
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