Tim: >> 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. Les Mikesell: > There is a handy installer at www.cygwin.com that does all the work > for you. Though you still have to download quite a lot of files, and fill a fair bit of drive space up. And you're still running within the dire environment of Windows. > If you are going to run bash scripts, you'll need all the > utility programs that you expect to have available. If you're using a Linux box remotely, all of that is on the Linux box, though. All you need is the interface to it. It rather depends on what you're trying to do. If you just need remote CLI access to the Linux box, then PuTTY is simple and effective. But if you need to pretend that your Windows box is a Unix box, and do some things on it locally, then Cygwin is probably the way to go. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
