Ummm, better to ask..., is putty going to be o.k. to use for my UNIX assignments in college? I seem to be on a college UNIX shell. Boy, am I dumb. O.k., I know, now. Thanks, folks, much love for being there. Blessings upon you all.
As long as you do not require a GUI and only need shell access via telnet or SSH putty will do the job just fine. I use putty almost every single day without problems and am quite happy with putty.
I also use putty for SSH tunneling and it works quite nicely.
Maybe I am dumb as well. (I don't get out much)
What is putty??? scratches head, confusedly
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.
See info on PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client
Don't know what putty is? Now don't be silly!
Har!Har!Har!
putty has RTM said, is a telnet and SSH client for Win32. One of the best ones that I have used (and it is free, so it's all good!).