I know I am not the only one to notice this, but I just tried the latest JAWS with putty and found that it works a lot better. I was able to log into my pi and make a few changes to a file. I will give a bit of a worning here. Be sure to do a say line before you start typing into a file. The synth I am using seemed a bit slow on the uptake at times. It did not stop me from making a change to a config file though. Could had used this fix years ago.
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