It just works, it doesn't break, it doesn't get in your way, it doesn't fight with you or fail when it's inconvenient. I could ramble on about features and ease of use, but for me the bottom line is, whatever you're doing, working on the computer, splitting wood, cooking dinner, doing some demolition, driving a motorcycle or skiing, it's fantastic to have really nice equipment. So I ended up trying SecureCRT and loved it - I probably paid for it after using it less than a week. PuTTY was nice - I used it for a while, but it had its limitations - that's OK, it's free software. What about using the freely available PuTTY for SSH, SCP, SFTP, etc? The Windows machine is used mostly for audio editing and image scanning, but still (thank goodness) works fine. I now have three Linux machines in addition to the Windows machine. I haven't bought new software for that machine in quite a while, so everything is frozen at about the year 2000 when I was self-employed and using that machine as my only workstation. Wow - there are actually quite a few terrific programs that I have on that Windows machine. Using a remote desktop is really, really cool. I used this during the Internet boom to track my time and bill clients. TimeSlice, a terrific time tracking and billing package from Modesitt Software (used to be Maui Software).Command line editing, filename completion, command line history, on-line help. Installing this on my 386/16 sometime in 1988-89 was mind-blowing. 4DOS for the command line - an absolutely dynamite replacement for DOS from JP Software my license for this software probably goes back close to 20 years - basically it puts the power of bash into a DOS command line.I don't use the SSH client much any more, but I use the secure FTP program regularly. SecureCRT and SecureFX from VanDyke Technologies - really fantastic SSH and secure FTP clients.WinAmp - a really nice MP3 player that keeps wanting to upgrade to something bigger, fatter and slower.EditPad, a terrific editor that I now see has been split into Lite and Pro versions.PMMail98 - an excellent E-Mail program that was ported from the original program written for OS/2, which I also paid for.I still use Goldwave for most of my editing, althought I'm trying to move it all over to Audacity, which is nice, but nowhere near as convenient as Multiquence. Goldwave for audio editing and Multiquence for editing and sequencing audio and video.It's been letting me scan photos (with my $50 scanner) for close to ten years. HyperSnap-DX, a really, really good, basic image capture and editing program from Hyperionics.However, I can recommend a few programs that still run on my venerable Windows 98 box: There is a list of win32 editors in Code Editors and Development Environments It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Marketing is still babbling in the front room I guess.Ĭode written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. Re^2: perlmonks reccomended win32 programsįirst available download is a. Two years too late, but I would recommend Windows_Services_for_UNIX, but I wouldn't use the bundled Perl from there, instead add pkgsrc-interix or debian interix Perl. You can view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at. Simply enter a tool's Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as or \\\tools\. Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Re^3: perlmonks reccomended win32 programsīy james2vegas (Chaplain) on at 04:57 UTC "Too many have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion." So, get'em now while the getting is good, 'cause the marketeers are gonna f***'em up RealSoonNow. No doubt with dependancies upon 2 or 3 hundred meg of MS "relocatables" that you have no idea what they are and will never use but can't live without. So far, they do not appear to have f***** with the tools in any substantial way, but you can pretty much guarentee that it won't be long before they all change from being small, 3-files in a zip downloads to huge, complicated, spread stuff all over your disk without giving you a choice MSIs. Have it tell them it is Mozilla and things function (for now). They have already messed cosmetically with previously simple, and easy to use website to the point that if you visit there using Opera configured to say it is Opera, nothing works. It (the website) and they (the tools) were very recently bought by MS. Pretty much anything from (formerly) Mark Russinovich' SysInternals.Įspecially useful are ProcessExplorer, TCP View, Page Defrag, Handle, Contig, Autoruns.
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