README.md

Welcome to the KiTTY introduction web site

What is KiTTY ?

KiTTY is a fork from version 0.71 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft(c) Windows(c) platform. For more information about the original software, or pre-compiled 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 filter
• Portability
• Shortcuts for pre-defined command
• The session launcher
• Automatic logon script
• Automatic logon script with the RuTTY patch
• URL hyperlinks

Technical features

• Automatic password
• Automatic command
• Running a locally saved script on a remote session
• ZModem integration

Graphical features

• An icon for each session
• Send to tray
• Transparency
• Protection against unfortunate keyboard input
• Roll-up
• Always visible
• Quick start of a duplicate session
• Enhanced Configuration Box

Other features

• Automatic saving
• SSH Handler: Internet Explorer integration
• pscp.exe and WinSCP integration
• Binary compression
• Clipboard printing
• The PuTTYCyg patch
• Background image
• File association
• Other settings
• New command-line options

Bonus

• A light chat server is hidden in KiTTY
• A hidden text editor is integrated into KiTTY

How to compile

Inside your MSYS & MinGW32 environment jump into the x.yy_My_PuTTY\windows directory then run the command:

make -f MAKEFILE.MINGW putty.exe

How to install the MSYS/MinGW32 environment

Simple guide to setup the compile environment:

• Download the mingw-builds-install.exe from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/host-windows/releases/4.8.0/32-bit/
• Execute the installer and select the GUI.
• After installing it, only the "packager manager" it's in fact installed, so execute $MinGW\libexec\mingw-get\guimain.exe and select in the Basic Setup the packages: "mingwg-developer-tools", "mingw32-base", "mingw32-gcc-g++" and "msys-base".
• When all is installed, to open the SHELL execute $MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat. Then from from this shell you can compile. Example: cd $KiTTY_DIR/0.70_My_PuTTY/windows and make -f MAKEFILE.MINGW 9bis.

Original website is http://kitty.9bis.com/.