Related question: remote access to unix

My workstation is Linux. Accessing a unix server via a good xterm (aterm in my case) is easy. Sometimes, I have to work on Windows workstations and accessing unix servers is terrible. Is there anything, at a reasonable price, that is as useable as a good X xterm but for Windows?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

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Re: Related question: remote access to unix by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 11, 2002 at 15:24 UTC
One word: cygwin. It has X Windows, including xterms for Windows. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Related question: remote access to unix by PrakashK (Pilgrim) on Oct 11, 2002 at 15:39 UTC
++ to cygwin. For those occasions when I have to work on Windows boxes (mostly for testing), cygwin helped me keep my sanity. Also, cygwin can be installed without X windows too. And, it comes with rxvt (xterm compatible) and ssh which can be nicely used together to log in to *nix boxen. All without the overhead of X-windows (it was pretty slow to work with xterm in cygwin's X-window environment on Windows). Another bonus is that cygwin comes with sshd too, and I have set it up on my win2k box, so if I am not using any windows graphical applications, I can just ssh into my windows box from my linux box. /prakash	[reply]
Re: Related question: remote access to unix by alfie (Pilgrim) on Oct 14, 2002 at 07:08 UTC
You might like to give PuTTY a try -- it is really worth it. It is the best ssh client for windows I am aware of, is free software/open source and able to send all of the special characters over. Of course it also supports ansi colors. Give it a try, if you need a good terminal emulation for windows which supports both ssh and telnet (useful for reading websites gg), you won't regret it. -- use signature; signature(" So long\nAlfie");	[reply]


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