[Web4lib] Windows Vista defaults to no telnet client

[Raymond Wood]

Allegedly, on Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:43:13PM -0400, Thomas Dowling stated:
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/93952/93952.html
> 
> Not the issue it once was, but Windows Vista will default to not
> having a telnet client; you can enable it, but it's several layers
> deep in the Control Panel.  Of course, since the Windows telnet app
> was chronically the worst telnet available, maybe that's a good thing.
> 
> I'm just assuming that there's no ssh client either.
>
> Thomas Dowling

I find that a combination telnet/ssh client such as 'putty' is
indispensible when I am working on the Windows platform.

As a matter of interest, are there any other freeware[1] ssh clients
that people prefer over 'putty' (on Windows) ?

[1] i.e. not share/ad/spy-ware :-)

Raymond
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