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Subject: Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd
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On 01/23/2012 02:56 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!
>
>> I try to explain to people how getting Putty to do ssh, Reflection X to
>> do X11, FireFTP or whatever to do ftp, ActiveState Perl to do Perl, etc.
>> is the wrong way to go about putting together a good set of tools when
>> you can more simply just get Cygwin to do all of those things and have
>> all of those tools play nicely together. Here appears to be yet another
>> example...
> That's because you're wrong.
> If there's native program that do the work better, why not use native program?
> Especially since it's in many ways better?
IMHO it's the "play nicely together" part. Additionally, some of those 
other programs cost money (i.e. Reflections and Hummingbird are nor 
free). With Perl, Cygwin's can use the more standard cpan module instead 
of a specialised ppm and things like setsid just work whereas 
ActiveStates says "Not supported". And then it's easier to keep them up 
to date. This other programs may have speed but really most time spent 
in things like ssh is human wait time and they may have some extra 
features but that's not particularly compelling for me. What "feature" 
does putty have that I need? A GUI dialog box that I need to fill out to 
connect to a system?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso


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