Tim: >> Doesn't cygwin require a rather large installation? PuTTY is just one >> small file. It also has a better shell than the windows CLI. Les Mikesell: > I didn't think putty had any shell. A cygwin install gives you > a bash nearly identical to the linux version. Perhaps "shell" is the wrong term, but with PuTTY you do get a virtual remote terminal, with the same functionality as running a Linux terminal on the Linux box (i.e. BASH works the same as when it's run locally), plus it runs inside a properly resizable window with window-history scroll bars (unlike the abominable DOS boxes that Windows has, or the awful telnet client it has). So, it is a terminal with some extra features wrapped around it - what constituted being called a "shell", back when I first started using terminals that were more than just one CLI (a shell being extra features around your interface, something beyond the bare functions). PuTTY's just one small program, as one small file, to run on Windows (without any installation required). Cygwin, on the other hand, is a whole slew of functions that need installing and running on Windows, a rather large collection of files, giving you a unix-like environment running on the PC. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
