Portable Telnet / SSH

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Portable software runs on your USB Drive
, custom flash drive, or your iPod, or a Memory stick
, or any type of external drive you plug into a USB port. You don't have to install anything on the computer's hard drive. It's like carrying your office around with you. Or... carrying your home to the office.

These kind of apps are becoming more and more popular as USB flash drives get cheaper and cheaper. If you ever do any work at more than one computer, go get one now, then install this freeware. Then you can do something else. If you want. Or, you can just hold your key drive and feel good about what you've just done.

By the way, I haven't included everything you can run this way, only those things you probably want to run this way.

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Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

PuTTY

PuTTY is a perfectly portable application. The champion of Telnet / SSH / sFTP clients needs no installation.

update 10/5
I received an email from Lolitka mentioning that PuTTY will save session date to the Windows registry and asking if there was a way to bypass this and save the information on the flash drive. The easiest way is to not save sessions, but to invoke Putty with command-line options to automatically connect to the host. There is no way to actually save a session to the USB device that I'm aware of.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/