You do not need to press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Ins in fact, if you do press Ctrl-C, PuTTY will send a Ctrl-C character down your session to the server where it will probably cause a process to be interrupted. When you let go of the button, the text is automatically copied to the clipboard. (This will be familiar to people who have used xterm on Unix.) In order to copy text to the clipboard, you just click the left mouse button in the terminal window, and drag to select text.
Also, copy and paste uses the Windows clipboard, so that you can paste (for example) URLs into a web browser, or paste from a word processor or spreadsheet into your terminal session.īy default, PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the mouse. Like most other terminal emulators, PuTTY allows you to copy and paste the text rather than having to type it again. Often in a PuTTY session you will find text on your terminal screen which you want to type in again. Nevertheless, there are a few more useful features available. Once you have worked your way through that and started a session, things should be reasonably simple after that. For extreme detail and reference purposes, chapter 4 is likely to contain more information.Ī lot of PuTTY's complexity and features are in the configuration panel. This chapter provides a general introduction to some more advanced features of PuTTY. 3.11.1 Starting a session from the command line.3.10 Connecting using the SUPDUP protocol.
- 3.9 Connecting using the Rlogin protocol.
- 3.8 Connecting using the Telnet protocol.
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3.3 Altering your character set configuration.3.2 Creating a log file of your session.