Welcome to the KiTTY introduction web site

What is KiTTY ?

KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 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

How to compile

Jump into the x.yy_My_PuTTY\windows directory then run the command:

make -f MAKEFILE.MINGW putty.exe

Original website is http://kitty.9bis.com/.