I've set up an Bitvise SSH server in Windows 7 and it works well except I can't control FAR Manager from PuTTY by sending Alt-F1 and Alf-F2 keystrokes. What to do?
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Alt+something keys are usually caught by the system and not send over. There is no problem withFnkeys only, as I just tried. Consider tryingmc, which should do similar thing and works fine over ssh (as it is proved by many generations).mc(Midnight Commander) does not work for me on Putty (Kitty actually) when connecting to Windows Bitvise SSH Server.Altto send an ASCII escape character before the special key (such asF1), and (because this is not a realistic assumption) will often wait long enough for you to just press Escape followed by the special key.