Replace vi with Putty? Huh?

I logged into my shell account at my host, to find that vi has been disabled. When I filed a support ticket to find out why (I've never encountered a host disabling vi before), I was told the following:

"Yes vi was loading server. You will need to download putty.exe and use it instead"

Ok, what am I missing? One is a text editor and the other is a telnet/SSH client. How does one replace the other?

Confusedly yours...

 

 

 

 

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