OT: setting for using putty on Ubuntu Desktop for Filepro which is running on a Linux Server.

[Brian K. White]

On 10/17/2013 2:47 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> The question is, why are you bothering?  PuTTY is an ssh client.  You
> already have a direct ssh client in the form of openssh's 'ssh'.  Why
> invoke extra middleware you don't need.  PuTTY's terminal emulation is
> essentially xterm anyway, so why not just use ssh in an xterm?
>
> Personally, I've never seen the point of the linux port of PuTTY.  Maybe
> Brian or Jay have a differing view that explains the benefits.  They're the
> ones most likely to.

Any old xterm-alike is good enough to run cp and rm.

For anything else there are countless reasons any old xterm-alike is 
total crap. You may live without but no one else should be expected to.

I started to go into details but really it's countless and I don't have 
the time, and, if you don't already see the reasons or can't imagine or 
project them, then you still won't whatever I point out. You must have 
encountered all the same issues already and just do not consider them 
problems. That's fine. Some people don't know why I don't consider 
needing a clutch pedal to be a problem either.

I often get by with any-old-xterm-alike, but it IS just "getting by". 
Nothing ever works 100% and there are always emulation glitches and 
missing features, and every different terminal has it's own different 
quirks and methods of configuration and limitations and broken 
expectations, and futzing with a new terminal every damned time you sit 
down, or change desktops, or update your OS, gets old.

I don't happen to use putty on linux myself, but I absolutely see why 
one might, and it's a perfectly reasonable choice and a perfectly 
reasonable way to invest one time in getting a terminal working 
perfectly and then have that config be portable and have it work most 
times on most versions of most OS's.

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bkw