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-[PuTTY | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/] (a pun on the [TTY] acronym) is a combined [Telnet]/[SSH] client and [VT100] TerminalEmulator for [Windows]. It was created 1998 and made its first [SSH] connection on May 29th. It is only about 350[KB] in size and requires no installation, just [download it
| http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/] and run.
+[PuTTY | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/] (a pun on the [TTY] acronym) is a combined [Telnet]/[SSH] client and [VT100] TerminalEmulator for [Windows]. It was created 1998 and made its first [SSH] connection on May 29th. It is only about 350[KB] in size and requires no installation, just [download PuTTY
| http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/] and run it
.
-If you truly can
't remember where
to download it
just remember to search
[Google] with the following keywords: "
putty download"
(and press
the I'm Feeling Lucky button
)
+If you don
't want
to memorize the [URL],
just remember to [Google] for <tt>
putty download</tt>.
+
+!!! Notes
+
+!! Line drawing characters
+
+[PuTTY] identifies as <tt>xterm</tt> by default. If you use a [UTF-8] locale on your [Linux]/[UNIX] machines, many applications will react to <tt>TERM=xterm</tt> by sending line drawing characters as a pair of characters consisting of a mode-switching character followed by some normal character such as x, q, and the like. [PuTTY] ignores the mode-switching character. As a result, trees, lines, boxes and the like don’t look anything like trees, lines or boxes.
+
+The solution is to have [PuTTY] identify as <tt>linux</tt>
(ie. the [Linux] console TerminalEmulator) instead. To make it all work right, you need to twiddle the following configuration settings:
+
+Terminal → Keyboard::
+ Change the sequences sent by: The Functions keys
and Keypad::
+ Select <i>Linux</i>.
+
+Window → Appearance::
+ Font settings::
+ Pick a font that contains
the Unicode line drawing characters, such as <i>Andale Mono</i> or <i>Lucida Console</i>. (Unfortunately Vista’s gorgeous new <i>Consolas</i> font does not have those.
)
+
+Window → Translation::
+ Character set translation on received data::
+ Select <i>[UTF-8]</i>.
+ Adjust how PuTTY handles line drawing characters::
+ Select <i>Use Unicode line drawing code points</i>.
+
+Connection → Data::
+ Terminal details: Terminal-type string::
+ Enter “<tt>linux</tt>”.
+
+Now line drawing characters should show up as they are supposed to.
