If you're going to use CMD/PS on windows you might go whole hog and install ConEmu. Then load it up with Cygwin, and DosBox.

ConEmu can even integrate stuff like Putty.

Thanks for that suggestion. I am well aware of these options, and if I used Windows at home, I could utilize these. However, I only use Windows when I have to, which is at work. The environment in which I work, you can absolutely not install software like this, as you would be breaking security protocols (and the law).

So this explains the joy I feel over small improvements like those mentioned above.

> ConEmu can even integrate stuff like Putty.

If you're going to use ConEmu, just go ahead and use the straight & regular OpenSSH command-line ssh tool.

Then you get all the standard niceties you can stash away for global reuse in ~/.ssh/config.

I don't miss PuTTY one bit.

Ooh, could I use this to get ECDSA keys with configurable rounds of hash functions?

I might switch from putty to ConEmu with OpenSSH then. Presuming I can get ConEmu's look close enough to my putty.

ConEmu is endlessly modifiable. You can inject dll hooks into it if you so wish even.