Re: Unix problems need help

From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:58:30 GMT

In article <1114193500.408230.145920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
johnw_94020@yahoo.com wrote:
> Can I have this url again? I'll store it on a floppy disk. Mac users
> like to boast about how useless the floppy is and all, but in reality
> they are quite useful for labs and libraries where USB is disabled or
> is not on the machine, and writing to the machine is not allowed.
>
> I have been in computers labs at schools and libraries. But out of the
> many, the only common media was the floppy disk. Some had USB flash
> drive access, while others did not.
>
> Thanks for the tip on Putty. I hope its equilivent to the telnet for
> the Mac (I am not using OSX). I use NCSA telnet (68K) and MacTelnet
> (powerful, but slow, and it sometimes crashes, while NCSA never
> crashes).
>
> Perhaps the Mac users can compare Putty to the above clients.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> John
>
>
>
> Ángel wrote:
>> In comp.unix.misc johnw_94020@yahoo.com wrote:
>> > Windows XP PC's so I am unable to copy and paste the screen over.
> The
>> > telnet available in Windows 3.11 and Mac OS 7.x is better than the
>> > crappy client in XP. Unfortunately nothing can be installed here so
> I
>>
>> You can use puTTy. It's an SSH client for Winsucks. You don't need
> to
>> install it, since it's only a very small (about 200ks) exe file you
> can
>> store on your temp directory, your desktop, or even a floppy.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Ángel

PuTTY is a Windows program, not Mac...sorry...

Kevin 

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