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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

Official download page

KiTTY is available at our main CDN: Fosshub.

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 https://kitty.9bis.com/.