Is there a way to get colors to work in Puttycyg?

Color support is part of PuTTY -- please see the PuTTY documentation: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

If you find something that works in PuTTY but does not work in PuTTYcyg, please report it here: http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/issues/entry

@jhalterman

run puTTYcyg with the command line option: "-cygterm bash --login -i"

Ex: putty.exe -cygterm bash --login -i

Colors should work then.

Did you consider making this compatible with SFU/SUA as well? (cf: http://www.suacommunity.com/ )

is it possible to make PuTTYcyg running msys's shell instead of cygwin? msys's shell has not the cygwin dll dependency.

another question ( no, it's a curiosity ), do you think PuTTYcyg's code can help KDE4's Konsole port into mswindows? ( I do not understand well about that but I think the missing pty functionality in mswindows is the current problem of porting Konsole )

The Cygterm backend of PuTTYcyg cannot run msys, as it is not a Cygwin program.

I doubt that PuTTYcyg's code would help Konsole out much. But see the README file about pty's vs. the Windows console device.

thanks for the clarification.

Thanks for nice tool. I just faced the following problem, and solved it.It may be useful for others.

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cthelper.exe - Entry Point Not Found
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The procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. 
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OK   
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If you get the above error, copy the binary files puttytel.exe and cthelper.exe? to your {cygwin_install_directory}/bin directory. Then try to execute putty.exe. It will work.

medgar123, thanks again for the clarification :)

konsole has been ported: http://lists.kde.org/?l=konsole-devel&m=123429088509347&w=2 http://lists.kde.org/?t=123353687000001&r=1&w=2

thank you :)

I am trying to modify the "Command prompt here" powertoy to use puttycyg, which should be pretty straight forward, except I can't figure out how to pass in the working directory as an argument. Is this possible?

Ikbatizy,

I'm not sure if I understood it well but I think I have an Idea.

first, let me see if I understood: -- you want to right-click a folder to open it in puttyCyg command prompt.

then, my idea: -- writing a simple program that converts mswindows paths into cygwin's paths e.g.: "C:\foo\bar" into "/cygdrive/c/foo/bar/", then this program calls puttycyg passing the directory as a parameter -- adding an entry in the mswindows registry to add the context menu option which should call the program mentioned above.

there are mswindows registry procedures to do so: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-add-remove-entries-in-context-menus/

I hope it can help.

I've just found something that can help:

http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Cygwin/BashHere

The file /usr/local/bin/dchanger:

#!/bin/bash
CHERE_INVOKING=true exec bash -rcfile /etc/profile

The registry command line:

C:\Cygwin\PuttyCyg\putty.exe -cygterm -load "Cygwin" /usr/local/bin/dchanger

For some reason it automagically knows which directory to change to. Don't ask me how.

Dear medgar123,

Thanks for writing puttycyg - it's great!

Kev

If you want to use windows console apps too (like ftp, telnet, etc) that do not work with putty(cyg) check this project too:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/