Colovic Vladan

I am using PuTTY to *remotely* access my server via ssh. Recently, I started using a Norton Commander clone called Midnight Commander, wich is incredibly usefull. But, decorative elements (line drawings) are displayed wrongwith some wierd characters. The solution in PuTTY is to change the folowing options:

Window > Translation >  Received data assumed to be in which character set: UTF-8
Window > Translation >  Handling of line drawing characters: Use Unicode line drawing code points
Connection > Data > Terminal details > Terminal-type string: linux
Terminal > Keyboard > The Function keys and keypad: Linux

The commander is now working as it was supposed to. Source of information.

Besides this, when we are already in PuTTY, to mention couple of configuration settings:

Connection > SSH > Enable compression: on
Connection > SSH > Preffered SSH protocol version: 2 only

If you want PuTTY to open some session when you start it, just create a shortcut and add a suffix

-load "Session-Name"

For example: C:\Program Files\Putty\putty.exe -load "MySession"

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