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

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>

> > 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 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.

I don't either, but in my case that's because, by and large, I'm using
SuSE, and KDE3, and Konsole is really quite a decent emulation; certainly
good enough to run filePro in.  

Cheers,
-- jra
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