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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers PuTTY displaying "special" characters Post 302801231 by derndingle on Wednesday 1st of May 2013 03:17:45 PM
Old 05-01-2013
PuTTY displaying "special" characters
I'm not really sure which forum this question should go into, so I'm posting it here.

I work with AIX and RHEL systems using PuTTY (Release 0.60_q1.129) from a Windows 7 workstation.

Some of the files we get from z/OS use "special" characters as delimiters. These characters include Hex 18 or Hex 19.

If I "cat" the files in the PuTTY terminal window, the characters are not displayed (on either AIX or RHEL.) However, if I open the files using UltraEdit sftp, I see the characters represented as an up-arrow for the x18 and a bar with a line for the x19. (If I copy and paste the text from the terminal window into UltraEdit, the delimiters are simply missing.)

I would like to be able to see the special characters in the terminal window itself so I can quickly see what the file has is delimited with. However, being a UNIX Dummy, I don't know if it's an issue with PuTTY's terminal settings, or an issue or limitation with the Linux/AIX box itself. I've tried changing font, terminal and character set settings that I could find in PuTTY's configuration, but haven't had any luck. I've Googled for a solution, and find a lot of stuff related to displaying Asian languages corretly, but nothing seems directly applicable to this situation.

Since I can open the file in UltraEdit to see the delimiters, I do have a viable work-around, so this isn't a huge issue for me, but it's annoying enough that I thought I'd ask and see if anyone has any suggestions.

(As a side note, I work in an environment where the desktop is very tightly controlled, so the particular version of PuTTY I'm using is my only option for terminal emulation. I can't install or try different software or versions to see if this issue is common to any terminal client or specific to PuTTY.)

Thanks!
 

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pscp

pscp(1) 							 PuTTY tool suite							   pscp(1)

NAME

       pscp - command-line SCP (secure copy) / SFTP client

SYNOPSIS

       pscp [options] [user@]host:source target
       pscp [options] source [source...] [user@]host:target
       pscp [options] -ls [user@]host:filespec

DESCRIPTION

       pscp is a command-line client for the SSH-based SCP (secure copy) and SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) protocols.

OPTIONS

       The command-line options supported by pscp are:

       -V     Show version information and exit.

       -pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit, to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.

       -ls    Remote directory listing.

       -p     Preserve file attributes.

       -q     Quiet, don't show statistics.

       -r     Copy directories recursively.

       -unsafe
	      Allow server-side wildcards (DANGEROUS).

       -v     Show verbose messages.

       -load session
	      Load settings from saved session.

       -P port
	      Connect to port port.

       -l user
	      Set remote username to user.

       -batch Disable interactive prompts.

       -pw password
	      Set  remote  password to password. CAUTION: this will likely make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via com-
	      mands such as `w').

       -1     Force use of SSH protocol version 1.

       -2     Force use of SSH protocol version 2.

       -C     Enable SSH compression.

       -i path
	      Private key file for authentication.

       -scp   Force use of SCP protocol.

       -sftp  Force use of SFTP protocol.

MORE INFORMATION

       For more information on pscp it's probably best to go and look at the manual on the PuTTY web page:

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

BUGS

       This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for better documentation.

PuTTY tool suite						    2004-03-24								   pscp(1)
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