[LinuxUsers] puttycyg (PuTTY for Cygwin)

[Roger E. Rustad, Jr.]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regular putty does not have this feature? copy paste... Sorry Im still
> a bit confused.  Putty I know.  Why puttycyg?  If you are using
> Cygwin, why not use cygwin bash shell, M$ power shell?

Regular PuTTY does, and I like that feature.

When you start c:\cygwin\cygin.bat in Windows, it goes to a cmd
prompt, and I have none of of the features of PuTTY that I like.
Hence, my need for PuTTYcyg

> "SecureCRT is like PuTTY on steroids, and that's the kind of front end
> that I ultimately prefer."
>
> They are both clients.  If you ssh into a Linux box, its bash shell
> from there.  On another note,  does does dante make secureCRT
> (http://bit.ly/6TuX0E) ?

Sure, they're both clients, but when you've gotta shell in to
different boxes all the time, you come up with little recipes, and
sometimes it's nice to make a macro and share those macros with others
who need to do the same thing.  I usually take a Windows laptop to a
customer site.

Cygwin is my ghettofabulous way of having a sort of happy medium when
I need to do stuff at the command line (shell into multiple boxes to
check stuff, expect scripts, change a crapload of file names on my
computer, etc)