RE: [LUG] telnet xp to linux

["Kelly Jones" <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Putty rules!
Set up port redirection in putty and run a vnc session over a ssh tunnel 

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From: owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Adrian Midgley
Sent: 23 January 2004 18:54
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LUG] telnet xp to linux

On Friday 23 January 2004 18:22, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

> I used to use one of the sessions to telnet into a SuSE 8.2 laptop, 
> purely for the purpose of running emacs in text mode.

> Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to do this from 
> xp?  telnetting from an xp command prompt doesn't result in a useable 
> display, using windows hyperterminal is not much better.

PuTTY.
Uses telnet if you insist, but is intended for ssh which is surely
preferable.

Libre software, from Cambridge.


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Adrian Midgley                   (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/


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