[nfbcs] Putty accessibility

Sun Apr 16 04:30:42 UTC 2017

I tried that option with Linux machines provided by my university, and
unfortunately, I can't ssh from the machine I have ssh'ed into due to
some permissions issues. I was able to get Putty working reasonably
though.

On 4/15/17, Tony Malykh <anton.malykh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if I'm going too far, but I just had another idea that
> might involve no hacking. If you have access to a Linux machine, you
> might want to set up google cloud client thereand then ssh to that
> Linux machine and inside the ssh session do another ssh inside google
> cloud. I never worked with Google cloud, but since that's Google, I
> think they must have a Linux version.
> And if you don't have a Linux instance at hand, you can get one in
> amazon EC2 cloud for $10 a year. That's what I do, and amazon's
> website is fully accessible with jaws.
>
> --Tony
>
>
> On 4/15/17, Kartik Sawhney <sawhney.kartik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, will give it a shot. Thanks everyone.
>>
>> On 4/15/17, Tony Malykh via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Kartik,
>>>
>>> I was thinking that if you cannot find a proper solution, you might
>>> try some hacking.
>>> What would happen if you don't have putty installed on your computer?
>>> Maybe the google client would ask you which ssh client to use?
>>> If not, then what I would do is to replace putty.exe with my own
>>> program, that just prints out the command line arguments. This way you
>>> would know how the google client invokes putty. Once you know the
>>> arguments, you can translate them into a call to ssh.exe from Cygwin.
>>> You can even write a program that would do the conversion for you.
>>>
>>> --Tony
>>>
>>> On 4/15/17, Jim Barbour via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure, but that seems like the kind of thing the web browser
>>>> could
>>>> be
>>>> configured to do differently.  That is, launch a different SSH client.
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> Written While on the Move
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 15, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Kartik Sawhney via nfbcs
>>>>> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been using Cygwin for the past four years, and it works really
>>>>> well. Unfortunately, I cannot ssh into a Google Cloud VM on Windows
>>>>> through Cygwin. Apparently, it automatically launches it in putty,
>>>>> which is getting hard to work with.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/15/17, Louis Maher <ljmaher at swbell.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Kartik ,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Before I retired two years ago, I would have recommended
>>>>>> SecureCRT  (access Linux through windows) Terminal emulator
>>>>>> (http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/) instead of putty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> JAWS worked very well with SecureCRT.  SecureCRT costs around $70.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Louis Maher
>>>>>> Phone: 713-444-7838
>>>>>> E-mail: ljmaher at swbell.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kartik
>>>>>> Sawhney
>>>>>> via nfbcs
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 12:11 PM
>>>>>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>> Cc: Kartik Sawhney <sawhney.kartik at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Putty accessibility
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately, these do not work anymore. The menu has the option to
>>>>>> copy
>>>>>> everything to the clickboard, but not paste.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/15/17, Willem Venter via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> I haven't used it in years, but I know you can paste by pressing
>>>>>>> alt+space and navigating to the edit menu, where there is a paste
>>>>>>> menu. Also, I'm not sure about this, but double tapping the insert
>>>>>>> key
>>>>>>> might paste too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/15/17, Kartik Sawhney via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Has anyone used putty before? It seems like the only way to paste
>>>>>>>> from clickboard is by mouse. Is there a way around it? Also, vim
>>>>>>>> does
>>>>>>>> not read out text in the console for some reason. Are there any
>>>>>>>> workarounds?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> -Kartik Sawhney,
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