Comments on: PuTTY for OS X? No thanks.

By: mrsleep

mrsleep — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:27:02 +0000

Gotta love righteous *nix nerds who can’t see ANY reason why you want might want expanded functionality out of your telnet client.

By: Guy

Guy — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:40:19 +0000

MM is correct. I use Secure CRT everyday and although Putty works, Secure CRT is superior when you need to have multiple sessions open and use numerous scripts. But, Putty is a great free app while Secure CRT is a great paid app.

By: MM

MM — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:30:23 +0000

You guys should try Secure CRT. It can do everything this free ware can do and more. There is a 30day trial for OSX.

By: SO

SO — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:16:49 +0000

As “Mark” above says, this article misses how bad the behavior of Terminal really is on a regular basis, it is better than the Windows command line interface (by a lot), but it has a lot of annoying quirks and some of them cannot be easily worked around. As some other posters also noted PuTTY was ported to Linux because of popular demand, and it wasn’t the middle click copy option (a unix gui standard for a very long time), it was the very good terminal emulation and the way PuTTY almost always behaves properly, no line overlaps, no odd mouse behavior, the default settings are very good.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 28 May 2011 13:52:22 +0000

The problem with this review is that it does not explain how horrible the OS X terminal is. Those of us who have used real X terminals enjoy copy-on-select and paste-on-middle. We like to turn off alternate window switching (or, at least have the option). Putty running on OS X really is a joy.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:24:02 +0000

This was clearly written by someone that has never actually tried to use the serial functionality of the OSX terminal and probably has never actually used any sort of serial terminal or serial terminal emulation before. The OSX terminal app is worthless for serial stuff even if it is fine for ssh. Screen is a little better but, still not real terminal emulation. Putty is the best free application by far. There are some better commercial ones though. They are usually expensive as they are usually sold to companies not individuals.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:08:52 +0000

I use PuTTY to connect to VMS systems where I need the VT100 EDT/TPU keypad mapping. I haven’t been able to get this to work with either Terminal or iTerm.

If someone can explain how to get everything to work, including the “GOLD” (numlock) key behaving as it does on a VT, I’m interested. Otherwise I still need something else for our new Mac.

By: askh

askh — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:01:45 +0000

in Snow Leopard default Termianl app provides the same functionality as Putty for Duplicate Session and storing connection presents as following:

1. In Preferences on Settings page duplicate your favorite setting (Pro for instance) and add desired remote connection command for Startup in Shell subpage (ssh user@server for example) naming this setting (let’s say) ‘MyPro’

2. Start first terminal session MyPro as Tab, than if you right-click on it’s tab you can select “New Tab with Settings – MyPro” from dropdown menu that will duplicate your session.

3. Or if you right-click on a tab bar empty space you can do “New Tab->MyPro” from context dropdown menu and open new tab with desired session preset.

4. For Serial connection use command “screen /dev/tty. 115200″ for example

By: alt

alt — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:06:05 +0000

I’m used to using the Alt key in Linux as a replacement for Esc, as in Alt-. instead of Esc . but in Terminal, the Alt key doesn’t work that way, it causes it to generate international characters instead, which I don’t need. Putty does this right on Windows, so I’ll have to give it a try on the Mac.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:26:35 +0000

monkster, Terminal allows you to change colors and fonts too. You can find it easily in the settings.