From: Charles W. <cwi...@us...> - 2012-09-05 04:41:10
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On 9/4/2012 8:04 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: > On 2012-09-04 23:25Z, Nathan Ridge wrote: > [...] >> I am wondering whether it's possible to use PuTTY as a local MSYS >> terminal. Has anyone done this before? > > Have you tried mintty, which is based on putty and can be > installed with mingw-get? Another alternative is to use mingw-get to install "the console2 installer" msys-console. Then, you run the /usr/bin/console-config script and it will download, configure, install (and, if all goes well) create a shortcut for you all in one step. This dance is required because console2 is open source, but can't be compiled with our tools. Hence we are reluctant to directly distribute their pre-compiled binaries from our repository... mintty is great, and I use it all the time with cygwin. But there is one big drawback (google "cygwin pty native applications" for an explanation). console2 doesn't have that problem, which is far more prevalent in the msys/mingw milieu than in cygwin. -- Chuck |