Ken Weingold wrote: > You get what you pay for. Putty sucks ass compared to SecureCRT. > Putty vs. SecureCRT in functionality is like vi vs. vim, csh vs. tcsh, > sh vs. bash, etc. Both will do the job, but....
well sh and vi are sometimes better for a task than their "improved" counterparts (let's not start a flamewar on this... i am just saying that there's a good tool for every job). perhaps you could explain what functionality is missing in Putty that SecureCRT has? for certain functions, SecureCRT is a lot better, but for many users, Putty is easier to use and provides the desired functionality. we have Windows users at our site that use both SecureCRT and Putty, and some prefer one, some prefer another. i generally prefer Putty, and use it when given a choice, but i don't use windows that much so i may be missing some horrible problems.... i also find that i'm generally using putty in places where i don't usually connect (ie my parent's house, a friend's house, or whatever), and it's often a pain to install SecureCRT, whereas Putty is just a simple exe file. i haven't messed with it too much, but i don't think i've gotten the acs characters working right in CRT, while they usually work fine in Putty. as someone who uses Eterms or xterms most of the time, i don't find too many things that i'm unable to do in Putty. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
