Pocket PuTTY Pre-Alpha

[SV Pocket PC]

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[edoolittle]

Hi, Thanks for your review of PocketPUTTY. I agree that the biggest problem with the application is that the input box at the bottom of the scrren can obscure the command line. I have a work-around: if you run the screen(1) application at the remote end, and enter the command-mode command

height -d 15

(change the number to suit; 15 works for me), scrolling will take place at 15 lines. The command can be placed in a file in your home directory called, e.g., .pocketputty.screenrc, and you can then run the command

screen -c.pocketputty.screenrc

to start scrren(1) at 15 lines height. You can place that command in a shell script in your path called, e.g., pp, which looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
exec screen -c $HOME/.pocketputty.screenrc

Then running pp as soon as you log in will fix your screen. There's an added bonus in that screen(1) provides its own scrollback buffer so you can dispense with the scrollbar too.

[SV Pocket PC]

Thanks for the tip. As I'm not a Unix/Linux guru, I don't know if that will work, but I hope it helps others.

Of course, the downside is that it only works for servers that you control; for servers that you don't, you'll still have the same problem.

Steve

[SV Pocket PC]

Thanks for the tip. As I'm not a Unix/Linux guru, I don't know if that will work, but I hope it helps others. i am student and recently completed my cissp exam and now a days i am spending some time on computer to get a idea of new software

[mpg187]

A new member? Welcome to the forums here.

So this a remote terminal access like Telnet or SSH, but more secure?

[SV Pocket PC]

So this a remote terminal access like Telnet or SSH, but more secure?

It is an implementation of SSH. The author ported PuTTY on the PC to the Pocket PC.

Steve

[SV Pocket PC]

Thanks for the tip. As I'm not a Unix/Linux guru, I don't know if that will work, but I hope it helps others. i am student and recently completed my cissp exam and now a days i am spending some time on computer to get a idea of new software

Hi, Sherry. So where are you from? Where did you take the CISSP exam?

Steve

[mpg187]

Damn spammers.

Anyways, do you copy and paste "Steve" into all your posts because it doesn't look like part of your signature...

[SV Pocket PC]

Anyways, do you copy and paste "Steve" into all your posts because it doesn't look like part of your signature...

I just type it; it's only five keystrokes. Copying is two and pasting is two, so it would take 2-4 keystrokes to copy and paste.

As to why I do that, I don't like seeing my name below the signature line. It's just an idiosyncracy, I guess.

Steve