On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > My console can be any of several platforms - in the last couple of weeks > it has been a Linux box, a Windows PC, a Mac, a Sun workstation, and a > real vt320 attached to a Sun. My mail sits on a hosted Linux box. To > read it, I sometimes ssh in to the machine and read it using mutt in > screen. At other times I read it using Mozilla Thunderbird over IMAP. > In Thunderbird, the odd characters show up. But when I'm using a > terminal session, I have found that the only practical way of getting > consistent behaviour wherever I am is to use TERM=vt100. Windows is, of > course, the main culprit in forcing me to vt100 emulation.
I can recommend PuTTY for windows. Secure, small[1], fast, featureful and free: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ I'm using it now to ssh from a windows laptop to read email using mutt in screen. Tim. [1] So small it easily fits on a floppy. I keep a copy on my USB memory drive.
