[asterisk-users] What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:09:30PM +0200, Randy R wrote:
> Has anyone mentioned Teraterm in this thread? I know it's very old but
> I also know it worked well with XP. 

Teraterm only supports the old, insecure and much less capable ssh1
protocol, IIRC. Many recent SSHDs disable ssh1 support nowadays. Don't
use it.

> I preferred it over Putty, but I
> haven't used Putty in years either. Nowadays, I use mostly Mac with
> occasional virtual XP - and the OS X terminal is great. It's a little
> surprising that no one has written a more modern version of something
> like Teraterm, but maybe the majority of Windows users don't do SSH?

What's wrong with putty?

Oh, and: see my previous link for msysgit.

> The fact is that when I mention SFTP to them (we don't do ftp at all
> usually) I can hear the crickets over the phone.

(SFTP is one of the "new" features of the SSH2 protocol)

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