Dynamo Tools

Putty Configuration

 Last Revised: 05/28/24

Although End-Users can use the Dynamo Tools Menu and Dynaweb for all access, a terminal emulator is required to configure linux and *nix servers. Typically an emulator that supports key based ssh connections is used. One free terminal emulator that works well is called putty. This document lists the process to download and install putty and optional related products and how to configure them for use with Dynamo Tools.

For pro5 and bbj installations prior to version 24.00, Dynamo Tools was configure to use an extended ASCII character set that included the line drawing characters used to display character based window borders. However, java 21 now uses UTF-8 and the default character set. This enables display of special characters such as a registered trademark symbol, a Euro symbol, foreign letters with diacriticals such as an umlaut, all of the line drawing characters, as well as every other possible symbol that may be required. As a result, Dynamo Tools now uses the UTF-8 character set to support display of all special characters.

Installation

Putty can be downloaded using this link:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

For modern Windows PC's the easiest option is to download and run the 64-bit windows installer (.msi) file. The default installation directory is C:\Program Files\PuTTY.

We recommend that you replace the standard putty executable file putty.exe with a version that can open a web page by clicking on a url displayed by the application. Dynamo Tools uses this feature in several places for example to display a PDF document or image file.

You can download this customized version of Putty using this link:

https://ryara.net/putty-url/

If you need to connect to multiple servers at the same time, then we also recommend installing SuperPutty. SuperPutty is a tab-based window that enables management of all of your putty connections and enables side-by-side display useful when comparing data on two different servers.

SuperPutty can be downloaded using this link:

https://github.com/jimradford/superputty/releases

Note that we recommend using the links provided as there are alternative downloads available for all of these products that bundle other undesirable software with the putty component.

Configuration - Pro5 and BBj prior to version 24.00

Using the Putty Change Settings option, change and save the default putty settings for best compatibility with Dynamo Tools.

Configuration - BBj version 24.00+ with java 21