KiTTY

KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY that adds extra features. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform.

Free
Open Source
Windows

kitty is a fork of putty that adds extra features. kitty is only designed for the microsoft windows platform. for more information about the original software, or precompiled binaries on other systems, you can go to the simon tatham putty page.

kitty has all the features from the original software, and adds many others as described below:

the very first requested features:

sessions filterportabilityshortcuts for predefined commandthe session launcherautomatic logon scriptautomatic logon script with the rutty patchurl hyperlinks

technical features:

automatic passwordautomatic commandrunning a locally saved script on a remote sessionzmodem integration

graphical features:

an icon for each sessionsend to traytransparencyprotection against unfortunate keyboard inputrollupalways visiblequick start of a duplicate sessionconfig box

other features:

automatic savingssh handler: internet explorer integrationpscp.exe and winscp integrationbinary compressionclipboard printingthe puttycyg patchbackground imagefile associationother settingsnew commandline options

bonus:

a light chat server is hidden in kittya hidden text editor is integrated into kitty

Links to official KiTTY sites

Features

Portable Session management SSH Auto login

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