1puttytel(1)                    PuTTY tool suite                    puttytel(1)
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NAME

6       puttytel - GUI Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP client for X
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SYNOPSIS

9       puttytel [ options ] [ host ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       puttytel  is a graphical Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP client for X. It is
13       a direct port of the Windows Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP client  of  the
14       same name, and a cut-down cryptography-free version of PuTTY.
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OPTIONS

17       The command-line options supported by puttytel are:
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19       --display display-name
20              Specify  the X display on which to open puttytel. (Note this op‐
21              tion has a double minus sign, even though none of the others do.
22              This  is  because  this option is supplied automatically by GTK.
23              Sorry.)
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25       -fn font-name
26              Specify the font to use for normal text displayed in the  termi‐
27              nal. For example, -fn fixed, -fn "Monospace 12".
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29       -fb font-name
30              Specify the font to use for bold text displayed in the terminal.
31              If the BoldAsColour resource is set to  1  (the  default),  bold
32              text will be displayed in different colours instead of a differ‐
33              ent font, so this option will be ignored. If BoldAsColour is set
34              to  0  or  2  and  you do not specify a bold font, puttytel will
35              overprint the normal font to make it look bolder.
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37       -fw font-name
38              Specify the font to use for double-width  characters  (typically
39              Chinese, Japanese and Korean text) displayed in the terminal.
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41       -fwb font-name
42              Specify  the font to use for bold double-width characters (typi‐
43              cally Chinese, Japanese and Korean text). Like -fb, this will be
44              ignored unless the BoldAsColour resource is set to 0 or 2.
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46       -geometry geometry
47              Specify  the  size of the terminal, in rows and columns of text.
48              See X(7) for more information on the syntax of geometry specifi‐
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51       -sl lines
52              Specify the number of lines of scrollback to save off the top of
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55       -fg colour
56              Specify the foreground colour to use for normal text.
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58       -bg colour
59              Specify the background colour to use for normal text.
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61       -bfg colour
62              Specify the foreground colour to  use  for  bold  text,  if  the
63              BoldAsColour resource is set to 1 (the default) or 2.
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65       -bbg colour
66              Specify  the  foreground  colour  to  use for bold reverse-video
67              text, if the BoldAsColour resource is set to 1 (the default)  or
68              2.  (This  colour  is best thought of as the bold version of the
69              background colour; so it only appears when text is displayed  in
70              the background colour.)
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72       -cfg colour
73              Specify  the  foreground  colour  to use for text covered by the
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76       -cbg colour
77              Specify the background colour to use for  text  covered  by  the
78              cursor. In other words, this is the main colour of the cursor.
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80       -title title
81              Specify  the  initial title of the terminal window. (This can be
82              changed under control of the server.)
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84       -sb- or +sb
85              Tells puttytel not to display a scroll bar.
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87       -sb    Tells puttytel to display a scroll bar: this is the opposite  of
88              -sb-. This is the default option: you will probably only need to
89              specify it explicitly if you have changed the default using  the
90              ScrollBar resource.
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92       -log logfile, -sessionlog logfile
93              This option makes puttytel log all the terminal output to a file
94              as well as displaying it in the terminal.
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96       -cs charset
97              This option specifies the character set in which puttytel should
98              assume the session is operating. This character set will be used
99              to interpret all the data received from the session, and all in‐
100              put  you type or paste into puttytel will be converted into this
101              character set before being sent to the session.
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103              Any character set name which is valid in a MIME header (and sup‐
104              ported   by   puttytel)  should  be  valid  here  (examples  are
105              `ISO-8859-1', `windows-1252' or `UTF-8').  Also,  any  character
106              encoding  which is valid in an X logical font description should
107              be valid (`ibm-cp437', for example).
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109              puttytel's default behaviour is to use the same character encod‐
110              ing  as  its  primary font. If you supply a Unicode (iso10646-1)
111              font, it will default to the UTF-8 character set.
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113              Character set names are case-insensitive.
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115       -nethack
116              Tells puttytel to enable NetHack keypad mode, in which  the  nu‐
117              meric keypad generates the NetHack hjklyubn direction keys. This
118              enables you to play NetHack with the numeric keypad without hav‐
119              ing  to use the NetHack number_pad option (which requires you to
120              press `n' before any repeat count). So you can move with the nu‐
121              meric  keypad,  and  enter  repeat counts with the normal number
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124       -help, --help
125              Display a message summarizing the available options.
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127       -pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys, to aid in
128              verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.
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130       -load session
131              Load  a  saved  session  by name. This allows you to run a saved
132              session straight from the command  line  without  having  to  go
133              through the configuration box first.
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135       -telnet, -rlogin, -supdup, -raw
136              Select the protocol puttytel will use to make the connection.
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138       -proxycmd command
139              Instead of making a TCP connection, use command as a proxy; net‐
140              work traffic will be redirected to the standard input and output
141              of  command. command must be a single word, so is likely to need
142              quoting by the shell.
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144              The special strings %host and %port in command will be  replaced
145              by the hostname and port number you want to connect to; to get a
146              literal % sign, enter %%.
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148              Backslash escapes are also supported, such as sequences like  \n
149              being replaced by a literal newline; to get a literal backslash,
150              enter \\. (Further escaping may be required by the shell.)
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152              (See the main PuTTY manual for full details of the supported  %-
153              and backslash-delimited tokens, although most of them are proba‐
154              bly not very useful in this context.)
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156       -l username
157              Specify the username to use when logging in to the server.
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159       -P port
160              Specify the port to connect to the server on.
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162       -4, -6 Force use of IPv4 or IPv6 for network connections.
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SAVED SESSIONS

165       Saved sessions are stored in a  .putty/sessions  subdirectory  in  your
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MORE INFORMATION

169       For  more  information  on PuTTY and PuTTYtel, it's probably best to go
170       and look at the manual on the web page:
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172       https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
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BUGS

175       This man page isn't terribly complete.
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