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Date:Mon Jan 10 11:18:25 2002 
Subject:Re: Teraterm (Was Re: Thirty years of frustration (:-/)...) 
From:Pete Goodeve 
Volume-ID:1020110.01 

In article <a11gbd$24h1$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
Aaron Sloman See text for reply address <Aaron.Sloman.XX@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>I've discovered that telnet from a Windows machine is a terrible
>experience unless you use teraterm, a free package available from
>here
>    http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
>
Yes, it certainly is, but fortunately I normally use BeOS, which
has a fine telnet (:-))

[I'm currently in the UK gor a few weeks, and using my brother's
Windows machine, and therefore suffering...  I may just get annoyed
enough to install teraterm on it!]

>
>Mostly I avoid touching machines that include any microsoft
>software so I rarely need these things.
Sigh.  Me too, but sometimes one can't avoid it.

>
>
>In this department the MSWindows users regularly use eXceed to
>access programs on our unix/linux machines. I believe there are free
>alternatives, but I can't remember any references.
Yes, we have eXceed on our lab machines, but I think I'll stick with
the command line for a while.

Cheers,
					-- Pete --