The power supply that I am controlling has the ability to fry expensive stuff if I set it wrong, and the broken UI already caused me to activate a channel that should not have been activated! (Fortunately, nothing went up in smoke. Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP. I am worried that there are more subtle differences. Download Putty for Windows to send and receive data on Telnet and SSH protocols. I was not able to fix the num-pad issue, although it worked once when I set the terminal->keyboard->initial state of the numpad option to "NetHack". I was able to circumvent the backspace key-issue by setting the option terminal->keyboard->backspace key to CTRL-?. A detailed description can be found here.
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It can also communicate over a serial port, or speak various legacy Internet protocols such as Telnet. Open the Windows Explorer (right-click on the Windows logo in the bottom left corner), navigate to the Downloads directory (or wherever you saved the installer), and double-click on the file name. PuTTY is a communications tool for running interactive command-line sessions on other computers, usually via the SSH protocol. Worse, backspace and the keys on the numpad are not working anymore. On older versions of Windows, you may need to run the installer manually. PuTTY starts up revealing its comprehensive configuration panel to aid you customize and manage sessions and connections alongside the terminal and the window that wraps it in. The font is different so that the user-interface looks quite weird. However, there are some stark differences. As Windows XP is phased out of my work environment, I am now trying to connect to the device using PuTTY on Windows 7. This worked very well for a few years using the built-in telnet client of Windows XP. I am working with a high voltage power supply that can be remote controlled via telnet over TCP/IP.