On 01/21/2013 03:29 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You have a working binary for PuTTY on OS X? I'm forced to use
Windows for work and I use PuTTY every day there. I'd love to have a
copy for my home Macs. Where is it available?
I heard recently that PuTTY had been ported to OS X. There seems to
be no point at all to this.
Open a Terminal, type "ssh <hostname>"...what's so tough about
that?
It works fine.
Terminal.app doesn't provide a shiny GUI to connect to physical
serial ports. ;)
Well I guess if people "need" that sort of thing...but then, I
respectfully submit that those are the types of people who aren't afraid
of the keyboard.
Just as you use ssh (or telnet) to connect to other systems, I
respectfully point out that something like kermit is what you want if
you want to connect to a serial port.
Yes, that's what I usually use. Works great.
(yes, I know GNU screen can do it too. I agree it seems fairly
pointless.)
Yes. And if memory serves, screen ships with OS X by default.
screen is (sometimes) useful, but for a totally different reason.
Yes, that, but it can also connect to serial ports, which seems
strange to me. Feature creep, I guess.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA