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 -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA