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Add a new chapter full of intermediate-useful-things, somewhere
between `Getting Started' (things we can barely believe you don't know) and the Configuration reference chapter (things you already knew and had just forgotten). Only half-written at the moment. [originally from svn r1423]
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CHAPTERS = blurb intro gs config pscp plink pubkey pageant faq
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CHAPTERS = blurb intro gs using config pscp plink pubkey pageant faq
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INPUTS = $(patsubst %,%.but,$(CHAPTERS))
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\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.13 2001/11/25 17:32:39 simon Exp $
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\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.14 2001/11/25 18:59:12 simon Exp $
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\C{config} Configuring PuTTY
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\S{config-scrollback} Controlling scrollback
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Text that scrolls off the top of the PuTTY terminal window is kept
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for reference. The scrollbar on the right of the window lets you
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view the scrolled-off text. You can also page through the scrollback
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using the keyboard, by pressing Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn.
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These options let you configure the way PuTTY keeps text after it
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scrolls off the top of the screen (see \k{using-scrollback}).
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The \q{Lines of scrollback} box lets you configure how many lines of
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text PuTTY keeps. The \q{Display scrollbar} option allows you to
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\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.1 2001/11/25 18:59:12 simon Exp $
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\C{using} Using PuTTY
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This chapter provides a general introduction to some more advanced
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features of PuTTY. For extreme detail and reference purposes,
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\k{config} is likely to contain more information.
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\H{using-session} During your session
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A lot of PuTTY's complexity and features are in the configuration
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panel. Once you have worked your way through that and started
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a session, things should be reasonably simple after that.
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Nevertheless, there are a few more useful features available.
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\S{using-selection} Copying and pasting text
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Often in a PuTTY session you will find text on your terminal screen
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which you want to type in again. Like most other terminal emulators,
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PuTTY allows you to copy and paste the text rather than having to
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type it again. Also, copy and paste uses the Windows clipboard, so
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that you can paste (for example) URLs into a web browser, or paste
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from a word processor or spreadsheet into your terminal session.
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PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the mouse. In order to
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copy text to the clipboard, you just click the left mouse button in
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the terminal window, and drag to select text. When you let go of the
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button, the text is \e{automatically} copied to the clipboard. You
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do not need to press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Ins; in fact, if you do press
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Ctrl-C, PuTTY will send a Ctrl-C character down your session to the
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server where it will probably cause a process to be interrupted.
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Pasting is done using the right button (or the middle mouse button,
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if you have a three-button mouse and have set it up; see
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\k{config-mouse}). When you click the right mouse button, PuTTY will
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read whatever is in the Windows Clipboard and paste it into your
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session, \e{exactly} as if it had been typed at the keyboard.
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(Therefore, be careful of pasting formatted text into an editor that
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does automatic indenting; you may find that the spaces pasted from
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the clipboard plus the spaces added by the editor add up to too many
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spaces and ruin the formatting. There is nothing PuTTY can do about
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this.)
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If you double-click the left mouse button, PuTTY will select a whole
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word. If you double-click, hold down the second click, and drag the
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mouse, PuTTY will select a sequence of whole words. If you
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\e{triple}-click, or triple-click and drag, then PuTTY will select a
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whole line or sequence of lines.
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If you want to select a rectangular region instead of selecting to
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the end of each line, you can do this by holding down Alt when you
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make your selection. (You can also configure rectangular selection
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to be the default, and then holding down Alt gives the normal
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behaviour instead. See \#{FIXME} for details.)
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If you have a middle mouse button, then you can use it to adjust an
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existing selection if you selected something slightly wrong. (If you
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have configured the middle mouse button to paste, then the right
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mouse button does this instead.) Click the button on the screen, and
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you can pick up the nearest end of the selection and drag it to
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somewhere else.
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\S{using-scrollback} Scrolling the screen back
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PuTTY keeps track of text that has scrolled up off the top of the
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terminal. So if something appears on the screen that you want to
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read, but it scrolls too fast and it's gone by the time you try to
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look for it, you can use the scrollbar on the right side of the
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window to look back up the session history and find it again.
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As well as using the scrollbar, you can also page the scrollback up
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and down by pressing Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn. These are still
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available if you configure the scrollbar to be invisible.
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By default the last 200 lines scrolled off the top are
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preserved for you to look at. You can increase (or decrease) this
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value using the configuration box; see \k{config-scrollback}.
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\S{using-sysmenu} The System menu
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If you click the left mouse button on the icon in the top left
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corner of PuTTY's window, or click the right mouse button on the
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title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu containing
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items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close.
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PuTTY's system menu contains extra program features in addition to
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the Windows standard options. These extra menu commands are
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described below.
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\S2{using-eventlog} The PuTTY Event Log
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If you choose \q{Event Log} from the system menu, a small window
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will pop up in which PuTTY logs significant events during the
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connection. Most of the events in the log will probably take place
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during session startup, but a few can occur at any point in the
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session, and one or two occur right at the end.
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You can use the mouse to select one or more lines of the Event Log,
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and hit the Copy button to copy them to the clipboard. If you are
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reporting a bug, it's often useful to paste the contents of the
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Event Log into your bug report.
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\S2{using-newsession} Starting new sessions
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PuTTY's system menu provides some shortcut ways to start new
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sessions:
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\b Selecting \q{New Session} will start a completely new instance of
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PuTTY, and bring up the configuration box as normal.
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\b Selecting \q{Duplicate Session} will start a session with
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precisely the same options as your current one - connecting to the
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same host using the same protocol, with all the same terminal
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settings and everything.
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\b The \q{Saved Sessions} submenu gives you quick access to any
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sets of stored session details you have previously saved. See
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\k{config-saving} for details of how to create saved sessions.
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\S2{using-changesettings} Changing your session settings
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If you select \q{Change Settings} from the system menu, PuTTY will
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display a cut-down version of its initial configuration box. This
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allows you to adjust most properties of your current session. You
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can change the terminal size, the font, the actions of various
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keypresses, the colours, and so on.
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Some of the options that are available in the main configuration box
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are not shown in the cut-down Change Settings box. These are usually
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options which don't make sense to change in the middle of a session
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(for example, you can't switch from SSH to Telnet in mid-session).
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\S2{using-copyall} Copy All to Clipboard
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This system menu option provides a convenient way to copy the whole
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contents of the terminal screen and scrollback to the clipboard in
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one go.
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\S2{reset-terminal} Clearing and resetting the terminal
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The \q{Clear Scrollback} option on the system menu tells PuTTY to
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discard all the lines of text that have been kept after they
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scrolled off the top of the screen. This might be useful, for
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example, if you displayed sensitive information and wanted to make
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sure nobody could look over your shoulder and see it. (Note that
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this only prevents a casual user from using the scrollbar to view
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the information; the text is not guaranteed not to still be in
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PuTTY's memory.)
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The \q{Reset Terminal} option causes a full reset of the terminal
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emulation. A VT-series terminal is a complex piece of software and
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can easily get into a state where all the text printed becomes
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unreadable. (This can happen, for example, if you accidentally
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output a binary file to your terminal.) If this happens, selecting
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Reset Terminal should sort it out.
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\S2{using-fullscreen} Full screen mode
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If you find the title bar on a maximised window to be ugly or
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distracting, you can select Full Screen mode to maximise PuTTY
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\q{even more}. When you select this, PuTTY will expand to fill the
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whole screen and its borders, title bar and scrollbar will
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disappear. (You can configure the scrollbar not to disappear in
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full-screen mode if you want to keep it.)
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\#{FIXME, document how and xref to it from here!}
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When you are in full-screen mode, you can still access the system
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menu if you click the left mouse button in the \e{extreme} top left
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corner of the screen.
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\H{using-logging} Creating a log file of your session
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For some purposes you may find you want to log everything that
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appears on your screen. You can do this using the \q{Logging} panel
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in the configuration box.
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To begin a session log, select \q{Change Settings} from the system
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menu and go to the Logging panel. Enter a log file name, and select
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a logging mode. (You can log all session output including the
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terminal control sequences, or you can just log the printable text.
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It depends what you want the log for.) Click \q{Apply} and your log
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will be started. Later on, you can go back to the Logging panel and
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select \q{Logging turned off completely} to stop logging; then PuTTY
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will close the log file and you can safely read it.
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See \k{config-logging} for more details and options.
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\H{using-translation} Altering your character set configuration
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If you find that special characters (accented characters, for
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example) are not being displayed correctly in your PuTTY session, it
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may be that PuTTY is interpreting the characters sent by the server
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according to the wrong \e{character set}. There are a lot of
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different character sets available, so it's entirely possible for
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this to happen.
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If you click \q{Change Settings} and look at the \q{Translation}
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panel, you should see a large number of character sets which you can
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select. Now all you need is to find out which of them you want!
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\H{using-forwarding} Port forwarding and X forwarding in SSH
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\# using X forwarding
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\# using port forwarding
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\H{using-rawprot} Making raw TCP connections
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\# Raw protocol
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