puttytel(1) PuTTY tool suite puttytel(1)NAMEputtytel - GUI Telnet and Rlogin client for X
SYNOPSISputtytel [ options ] [ host ]
DESCRIPTIONputtytel is a graphical Telnet and Rlogin client for X. It is a direct
port of the Windows Telnet and Rlogin client of the same name, and a
cut-down cryptography-free version of PuTTY.
OPTIONS
The command-line options supported by puttytel are:
--display display-name
Specify the X display on which to open puttytel. (Note this
option has a double minus sign, even though none of the others
do. This is because this option is supplied automatically by
GTK. Sorry.)
-fn font-name
Specify the font to use for normal text displayed in the termi‐
nal.
-fb font-name
Specify the font to use for bold text displayed in the terminal.
If the BoldAsColour resource is set to 1 (the default), bold
text will be displayed in different colours instead of a differ‐
ent font, so this option will be ignored. If BoldAsColour is set
to 0 or 2 and you do not specify a bold font, puttytel will
overprint the normal font to make it look bolder.
-fw font-name
Specify the font to use for double-width characters (typically
Chinese, Japanese and Korean text) displayed in the terminal.
-fwb font-name
Specify the font to use for bold double-width characters (typi‐
cally Chinese, Japanese and Korean text). Like -fb, this will be
ignored unless the BoldAsColour resource is set to 0 or 2.
-geometry geometry
Specify the size of the terminal, in rows and columns of text.
See X(7) for more information on the syntax of geometry specifi‐
cations.
-sl lines
Specify the number of lines of scrollback to save off the top of
the terminal.
-fg colour
Specify the foreground colour to use for normal text.
-bg colour
Specify the background colour to use for normal text.
-bfg colour
Specify the foreground colour to use for bold text, if the
BoldAsColour resource is set to 1 (the default) or 2.
-bbg colour
Specify the foreground colour to use for bold reverse-video
text, if the BoldAsColour resource is set to 1 (the default) or
2. (This colour is best thought of as the bold version of the
background colour; so it only appears when text is displayed in
the background colour.)
-cfg colour
Specify the foreground colour to use for text covered by the
cursor.
-cbg colour
Specify the background colour to use for text covered by the
cursor. In other words, this is the main colour of the cursor.
-title title
Specify the initial title of the terminal window. (This can be
changed under control of the server.)
-sb- or +sb
Tells puttytel not to display a scroll bar.
-sb Tells puttytel to display a scroll bar: this is the opposite of
-sb-. This is the default option: you will probably only need to
specify it explicitly if you have changed the default using the
ScrollBar resource.
-log filename
This option makes puttytel log all the terminal output to a file
as well as displaying it in the terminal.
-cs charset
This option specifies the character set in which puttytel should
assume the session is operating. This character set will be used
to interpret all the data received from the session, and all
input you type or paste into puttytel will be converted into
this character set before being sent to the session.
Any character set name which is valid in a MIME header (and sup‐
ported by puttytel) should be valid here (examples are
`ISO-8859-1', `windows-1252' or `UTF-8'). Also, any character
encoding which is valid in an X logical font description should
be valid (`ibm-cp437', for example).
puttytel's default behaviour is to use the same character encod‐
ing as its primary font. If you supply a Unicode (iso10646-1)
font, it will default to the UTF-8 character set.
Character set names are case-insensitive.
-nethack
Tells puttytel to enable NetHack keypad mode, in which the
numeric keypad generates the NetHack hjklyubn direction keys.
This enables you to play NetHack with the numeric keypad without
having to use the NetHack number_pad option (which requires you
to press `n' before any repeat count). So you can move with the
numeric keypad, and enter repeat counts with the normal number
keys.
-help, --help
Display a message summarizing the available options.
-pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys, to aid in
verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.
-load session
Load a saved session by name. This allows you to run a saved
session straight from the command line without having to go
through the configuration box first.
-telnet, -rlogin, -raw
Select the protocol puttytel will use to make the connection.
-l username
Specify the username to use when logging in to the server.
-P port
Specify the port to connect to the server on.
SAVED SESSIONS
Saved sessions are stored in a .putty/sessions subdirectory in your
home directory.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on PuTTY and PuTTYtel, it's probably best to go
and look at the manual on the web page:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
BUGS
This man page isn't terribly complete.
PuTTY tool suite 2004‐03‐24 puttytel(1)
