Set the term option (available in the putty menus before you open the connection) to putty and everything will work right, unless your. As others have explained putty does not use the same escape codes as xterm, so this is definitely an unfortunate default. For quickly accessing a few dozen SSH clients with automatic user&password submission, PuTTY/KiTTY will be sufficient. At least on my copy of putty (0.76) the default TERM is set to xterm. Which one you want to use is completely up to you. The screenshot shows 2 instances (1 already connected, 1 main window) of KiTTY, a PuTTY fork. There are forks of it, such as KiTTY, that offer more features. PuTTY, on the other hand, is just an SSH/telnet client with a GUI. The screenshot is from MobaXterm's demo video, hence the playback handle at the bottom. Professional Customizer (Pro Edition only) You can tell this by just looking at the tagline from MobaXterm's website:Įnhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more.

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