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Mithix writes
"Gizmodo is reporting that the popular (and free) SSH client PuTTY is now in beta for Symbian OS, the OS of choice for the Nokia Series 60, the Nokia 9200 Communicator Series, and the N-Gage. Finally, something redeeming for the N-Gage?"
PuTTY is awesome! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:PuTTY is awesome! (Score:1, Informative)
I recently got an N-Gage (two weeks ago at EB).
It was $200 with three games and an extra battery.
I didn't buy it for the games in any way what so ever. I bought it because it was a cheap, high-end (bluetooth) phone. It also supported IMAP over SSL and SMTP-Auth over SSL which were neat. It has usable PIM functinality as well. There are also some neat free apps for it, such as this.
The games have been mildly entertaining (definitely more so
Re:PuTTY is awesome! (Score:2)
Multiple phone handsets for different circumstances!
Re:Ah, PuTTY (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Ah, PuTTY (Score:4, Informative)
cygwin's ssh client has some annoying problems, expecially when using curses programs. They are just annoyances, but why put up with them when you can get putty that works nearly flawlessly.
Re:MOD PARENT DOWN (Score:1)
geez, I should start bashing Windoze as well, to gain more insight into working of
Curses!! (Score:2, Funny)
A day late and a dollar short again
Re:Curses!! (Score:4, Interesting)
And it is pretty much impossible to write an ssh client for it simply because of the crappy Sony Ericsson J2ME implementation. Sony Ericsson has chosen not to implement sockets so j2me "internet" apps must utilize wap push mechanisms in order to send/receive data.
If you want a phone that supports sockets look for a phone with a phone that has MIDP 2.0 implemented. I'm pretty sure that sockets is a requirement in MIDP 2 and optional in MIDP 1.
Re:Curses!! (Score:3, Informative)
the series60 putty has been out for months already.
but yeah, people should not mix up feeble j2me apps and native symbian apps, the native one's have so much more power and access that j2me seems like a joke in comparision.
A bit old... (Score:2)
Something wrong with the *IDEA* of Helix DNA (Score:2)
"News" (Score:1)
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PuTTY Experience (Score:5, Informative)
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Adding a bitmap will bloat the binary too much, according to them. But forks of putty which do this, exist. (only they are most of the time outdated).
I am still waiting for the Tab support, nowadays my desktop at work is full of putty windows, what is a bit annoying. (Screen doesn't work good in Cygwin..).
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I guess you could argue that PuTTY's strength is also its weakness. The authors have very specific ideas about the architecture of the program, and don't leave a lot of room for tweaking.
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The problem is that they can't use ^C ^V like the rest of Windows apps because the program running inside putty may use those - for example if you are using pine. Therefore any method they choose will be akward when you are habituated to the windows shortcuts. The method they chose is at least familiar to some people and is much better than the DOS terminal's solution to this problem.
Have you seen other programs that handle
Re:PuTTY Experience (Score:2)
That's nonsense. Text mode programs don't know about terminal cut and paste. They all think they're running on DEC-compatible terminals [vt100.net], which is what all XTerm implementations emulate. (Actually, they assume whatever terminal you specify via $TERM, but nowadays that's almost always set to "xterm", since hardware terminals are more or less dead.)
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Text mode programs don't know about terminal cut and paste. They all think they're running on DEC-compatible terminals, which is what all XTerm implementations emulate. (Actually, they assume whatever terminal you specify via $TERM, but nowadays that's almost always set to "xterm", since hardware terminals are more or less dead.)
Agreed.
They don't see mouse gestures. They just see input. They have no way of knowing whether these inputs come from a k
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It can't use C-c and C-v, and neither can Microsoft's own command prompt window, because those keystrokes might be used by the application.
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This is a matter of personal preference, all I can say is that the Putty developers have the same preferences as the Windows command window developers and many other people.
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Hasn't this been out forever? (Score:2)
*promote*
So what's this mean? (Score:1)
wonder what I'm missing here...
Re:So what's this mean? (Score:1)
I had putty on my 9290 about 8 months ago now, works great.
It also runs on other Symbian phones like the Sony Ericsson P800 and P900.
Re:So what's this mean? (Score:1)
just another piece of programming trudgery...*sigh
Nethack (Score:1)
Older EPOC/Symbian OSes (Score:1)
I currently use Hermes [demon.co.uk] and a direct serial connection to maintain my headless Linux boxes. Psion 5/5mx machines are really good for this with the 640x240 display and keyboard you can type on.