UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am looking for a replacement to my Pro-Com software to use on UNIX based applications at work.

I am a virtual remote employee who works from my home using a windows XP machine. On my company laptop, another Win XP, we use REFLECTION v12 for UNIX and OPEN VMS.

I really like REFLECTIONS a lot and downloaded a free trial version from ATTACHMATE. However ATTACHMATE does not sell the product, and what I have found with distributors is very expensive.

I would keep using PRO COM but it appears to no longer be supported and has crashed on my home PC. I still have the disk, but it will not install for some unknown reason.

Anyway I need to replace PRO COMM so I can continue to work from home.

So what is available from where?

You mean an SSH client? PuTTy is pretty popular, although fairly basic.

If you want to run X11 applications on Windows -- correction, have X clients run windows on your Windows, -- I think Cygwin comes with an X server these days.

All I use it for is TELNET and to run script files to do operations, maintenance, and circuit provisioning on UNIX based systems. I work for a telephone comapny and all our switches (Public Switched Telephone Network) Digital Cross-Connects, etc use UNIX servers.

PuTTY has a pretty good telnet client in it too.
Not sure about running scripts remotely, that sounds more like rsh or rexec unless procomm just uses macros to do it.