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Simon--er, no...it was Bob Rasmussen--said:
> I would, of course, argue that running Anzio Lite or, especially, AnzioWin 
> would give you more functionality on the client end than would PuTTY. 

Yes and no.  You would not be able to use the Alt-Fn key mappings Jay
cited.  You would also not be able to do Alt-key as you can in PuTTY.  I
know you blew me off as to how it can't be done, you don't know how PuTTY
achieves it, etc.  All I can say is read the PuTTY source, cos it -does-
handle Alt-keystroke (like Alt-S for search in YaST, etc), and it's the
main thing lacking in Anzio Lite that ticks me off.  I should not have to
tab 8 times instead of hit an Alt combo.

Anzio gives you more than PuTTY, but it's got some (IMHO) critical design
and implementation deficiencies.  Is it superior overall?  Yes, at the
price of size (3.36MB for just anzio32r.exe, without support files, compared
to 444KB for putty.exe, no support files needed), and some critical things
you get used to using, like Alt sequences.  It's a matter of what you'll
trade for.  I'm happy since switching, but that doesn't mean you've got
every PuTTY feature covered.

mark->