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		barbs on Aug 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes What are the benefits of using PuTTY over plain ssh in a *NIX environment?

eru on Aug 7, 2013 [–]

Putty has nice nethack support.

caf on Aug 7, 2013 | [–]

You can also run nethack under 'cp437' (https://github.com/keaston/cp437) to use the IBMGraphics option on a UTF-8 terminal like gnome-terminal.

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