On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 16:12:59 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: >On 7/6/20 10:41 AM, Allan Staller wrote: >> Until fairly recently,, there was no native ssh client on Windoze. > >There have been native, as in not run in an emulator, SSH / SFTP / SCP >clients on Windows for almost 20 years. > > - PuTTY / PSFTP / PSCP > - Multiple GUI clients; e.g. FileZilla > - Cygwin > - I think I've heard tell of people compiling OpenSSH themselves. > If there are N of them, it's (N-1) too many. Reminiscent of the Bad Old Days, when every application had its own printer drivers and its own fonts.
>Microsoft started distributing OpenSSH recently. > So, N+1? Or will the rest of the world fall in line? Maybe Windows 11. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
