SSH is available by default in Mac and Linux or Unix. Although you can use terminal for SSH connections still there are some benefits using putty such as Other. Use PPK file in Mac Terminal to connect to remote connection over SSH. Ask Question. I now want to use a Mac to connect via the terminal. I have set up the remote connections to the servers manually and want to know how I can setup using the ppk file or the private/public key within it. You can also convert the key using putty for Mac.
There's a new Mac app called, available in the app store. Full disclosure- I wrote it. The main advantage over other apps is it can work with most USB to serial devices without having to install any drivers, as it has its own drivers built-in. It also does full terminal emulation so you can use it to work with Linux or other devices that require it.
You can try it for free, too. Also, Apple began including their own driver for FTDI-based devices in Mavericks (10.9). So, if you're on 10.9 or later and your device has an FTDI chip inside, you can use the built-in screen command in the terminal to access your device without worrying about drivers.
You can use the terminal command screen to do this!!! As seen: I love using [screen] for connecting to serial consoles, i.e. Screen /dev/ttyS0 19200 Or. I often have to do router configuration via a console port, so I use a Keyspan Serial Adapter to get access.
Two problems then present themselves: ZTerm is a horrible Mac OS X app. It hasn't been updated in five years or so, and isn't a Universal Binary. The developer doesn't seem in any hurry to rectify the situation. It is not worth the shareware fee in its current form. Minicom requires installation of Fink or MacPorts and is overly complex. Solution: Use screen, Terminal, and a little AppleScripting. First, launch Script Editor and type/paste in the following code: tell application 'Terminal' do script with command 'screen /dev/tty.KeySerial1' set number of rows of window 1 to 100 set number of columns of window 1 to 80 set background color of window 1 to 'black' set normal text color of window 1 to 'green' set custom title of window 1 to 'SerialOut' end tell Compile and save as an app from within Script Editor, and you have a double-clickable application to launch a serial Terminal session.
You may want to customize this slightly -- you can change the screen colors or number of columns or rows. You may also need to customize the screen command with a different device name if you are using something other than the Keyspan Serial Adapter (do an ls tty* of the /dev/ directory to get the right name). Screen uses Control-A to take commands directed to it.
So type Control-A followed by Control- to exit your screen session. If you fail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the screen session manually. Man screen will show you further commands to send to a screen session. If anyone can reply with a link to a tutorial on how to wrap an interactive Unix App in Cocoa, that would be the next step -- it would be nice to do this without involving Terminal.
If you prefer to use Minicom, you could still use the AppleScript to wrap it into a nice launchable app -- use this older hint to find the right command line commands. Many USB-Serial adapters use the chip from.
Unchecking Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance, Enable rich client visual experience, and Use hardware graphics acceleration if available via Options – Environment made the UI feel much more responsive on my machine. • Start up to an empty environment. You may not want to make all of the changes I did, so pick and choose your own list of tweaks: • Disable hardware-accelerated rendering. With a large multi-project solution open, though, I saw some slowdowns. Through trial and error, I found a number of things that could be disabled to improve performance. Design view visual studio 2017.