[ILUG] Putty

[Ulysees]

don't think its related to just putty at all, it appears to happen in pretty
much every program, wonder what the official reason is.


uly

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Nicholls" <David.Nicholls at ashling.com>
To: "'Colm MacCarthaigh'" <colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie>; "'Smith, Graham -
Computing Technician'" <Graham.Smith at it-tallaght.ie>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Putty


> Is it some sort of escape sequence command?
> I've just realised that if you type that character even in Word, it does
not
> appear on the screen, until you hit the next character. (i.e. if not a
know
> sequence such as `a it displays correctly after the second character.)
>
> It appears to be some sort of command to print "altered characters" such
as
> "A accent" or "I fadda".
>
> So it appears to be a windows thing more-so than a putty thing. ( Perhaps
> there is an option to disable it ?)
>
> Also I have noticed that very often if I try to paste some text into a
putty
> session, it kills it?
> Has anyone else seen this or is it perhaps related to the same problem.
>
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Colm
> MacCarthaigh
> Sent: 14 November 2001 13:33
> To: Smith, Graham - Computing Technician
> Cc: 'ilug at linux.ie'
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Putty
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:15:56PM -0000, Smith, Graham - Computing
> Technician wrote:
> > I have a small annoyance here - typing the ` character (backtick
> > to the left of number 1/! on a UK/Irish keyboard) doesn't work
> > when i'm accessing a box remotely using putty.
> >
> > I've been copy/pasting in the ` character and its getting to
> > be a bit of a pain. Is there a fix for this? Being just a character
> > its quite difficult to search for this problem....
> >
>
> yep, a known bug, press ` and then space :)
>
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