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Article: 13919 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Subject: Re: totally OT: terminal emulators
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>: Since I'm here, I wouldn't mind hearing someone, maybe even FdC,
>: provide a tit-for-tat on Kermit versus PuTTY.
I use both of them.
The big advantage of PuTTY is that it is simpler to fool with and
it supports agent proxies (so when I have to go through multiple
ssh firewalls, I can get all the keys loaded up as I go).
The big advantage of kermit (to me) is scripting and file transfer. If you
are ssh'ed over multiple connections (or dialed up, ssh'ed, telnetted, and
rlogined :-), kermit works to transfer files over the path you already have
established. Most of the ssh based file transfer tools either only work over
a single hop or require fantastically long commands to specify all the
multi-hop connections.
The one catch to this is that the kermit agent doesn't support proxy
connections (hint, hint :-), so it is more trouble to get kermit connected
over those multiple hops, but once connected, you can do more (and if you
never logout and log back in, it isn't a big deal since you have to type all
the keys at least once in any case).
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