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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jacob Nevins
f2ba6fee6b Expand "what platform" text to take account of Unix.
[originally from svn r3891]
2004-02-22 16:52:27 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
75588d1f1d Minor fix in usage message
[originally from svn r3888]
2004-02-22 14:48:48 +00:00
Simon Tatham
d186c31c29 Couple of new FAQ questions: `what's the point of the Unix port' and
`why does scrollback no longer work when I run screen'.

[originally from svn r3868]
2004-02-16 14:38:42 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e4c9705f7b bloody PageRank hackers.
(since no-one objected to this wording back in October)

[originally from svn r3865]
2004-02-13 12:19:26 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
abe7dc7dd5 I don't think iXplorer is now sufficiently unique to mention in the docs
(given that we have a Links page full of such things now)

[originally from svn r3864]
2004-02-13 11:20:42 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
52a5520966 Missed one: sftp-slow has gone away with 0.54
[originally from svn r3859]
2004-02-13 00:20:52 +00:00
Simon Tatham
bcee13f8f7 Back out my temporary edit of the FAQ, to make it once again
0.54-ready.

[originally from svn r3848]
2004-02-12 18:28:00 +00:00
Simon Tatham
55bc23297f Sigh. Since Mailman breakage means we won't be releasing 0.54 today
after all, I'll slightly edit those FAQ changes.

[originally from svn r3845]
2004-02-10 19:32:08 +00:00
Simon Tatham
f1d532e2d0 Jacob's FAQ changes for 0.54.
[originally from svn r3842]
2004-02-10 18:22:00 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
b68beb2420 Briefly document the "special commands" menu.
[originally from svn r3830]
2004-02-08 00:14:57 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
441231814b Document the new "Compromise" mouse-handling option introduced 2003-11-20
[originally from svn r3829]
2004-02-07 23:49:21 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e05a4be0cb Mention the Ctrl+right-click context menu now available on Windows.
[originally from svn r3827]
2004-02-07 23:35:32 +00:00
Simon Tatham
8b57939f6b Update version numbers preparatory to tagging for release.
[originally from svn r3820]
2004-02-07 18:17:50 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
b33dc07ff8 Host key q: mention kh2reg.py
[originally from svn r3801]
2004-02-04 18:39:14 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
460bbd445a Unix PuTTYgen: exists
[originally from svn r3768]
2004-01-24 18:30:32 +00:00
Simon Tatham
bd006a3ced `What is PuTTY?' gets asked _just_ frequently enough to have finally
annoyed me.

[originally from svn r3749]
2004-01-21 17:11:55 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
352ec6a486 `portfwd-loopback-choice' was not consistently documented.
- update usage info in tools
   - ack, plink is over 24 lines now
 - update man pages for Unix version
 - Doc changes:
   - move long description from (GUI) "config" to "using"
     - sorry if complete specification isn't what this section is meant for,
       but if you only read "using" it was hard to find.
   - ensure enough references to this made in other sections (GUI,
     command-line)
   - update instance of plink usage info

[originally from svn r3740]
2004-01-20 12:46:36 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
b4b7ebd5e3 Re local X server auth, clarify that it's _us_ you should mail, and link
to the Feedback section.

[originally from svn r3734]
2004-01-19 00:19:32 +00:00
Simon Tatham
2817a7e150 It's a new year.
[originally from svn r3679]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
2004-01-01 16:47:55 +00:00
Simon Tatham
5ff8c668e4 Move the `translation of line drawing characters when pasting'
option from the Selection panel to the Translation panel (where it
fits at least as well). This frees a line in the Selection panel
which I'm about to use for an additional mouse handling option.

[originally from svn r3564]
2003-11-20 18:33:22 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
9f98f81271 Make that last checkin more explicit, and in particular reference the
"common errors" section of the documentation.

[originally from svn r3554]
2003-11-19 19:09:07 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
2778f4b825 Soften language in `faq-incorrect-mac': buggy ssh.com servers aren't the
only possible reason for this message.

[originally from svn r3553]
2003-11-19 19:03:24 +00:00
Simon Tatham
69efc93547 Hmm, that relative link wasn't too good. Try a more helpful one.
Also add to the release checklist so that I'll remember to set this
up properly in the next set of release docs...

[originally from svn r3525]
2003-10-30 10:41:59 +00:00
Simon Tatham
f9abc2b092 Move the reference to sitestyle.css out into a separate .but file
which is only included if you explicitly tell the docs Makefile to
do so. Also make it a relative reference, while we're at it.

[originally from svn r3524]
2003-10-30 10:30:23 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
82d093c549 Update faq-pscp-ascii.
[originally from svn r3509]
2003-10-15 12:09:24 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
9860f1a10c We now have Unix ports of PSCP and PSFTP.
[originally from svn r3506]
2003-10-14 19:57:50 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
c8a6df1e1c missed a bit in last commit
[originally from svn r3490]
2003-10-08 21:39:54 +00:00
Owen Dunn
a03d04ba75 Cosmetic, to fix ssh2-des-cbc-is-std
[originally from svn r3488]
2003-10-08 20:09:55 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
e3018a08e8 Clarify what happens when you enter a code page that's not listed.
[originally from svn r3467]
2003-09-26 13:04:56 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
3250a5b0f0 Note what versions of SOCKS are implemented for dynamic port forwarding.
[originally from svn r3464]
2003-09-25 12:38:02 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
61ad562f72 Imply that some features that have been implemented may appear on the Wishlist
but not the Changes page, as this is now often the case.

[originally from svn r3459]
2003-09-23 10:12:02 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
701ad46226 Mention Windows on Alpha as worth mentioning
[originally from svn r3458]
2003-09-23 10:05:06 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
95d5a91c24 Implement `default-colours' on Windows based loosely on Michael Wardle's patch.
[originally from svn r3444]
2003-09-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5690a72640 New option for plink: "-s" specifies that the remote command is an SSH-2
subsystem. (pinched from OpenSSH)

[originally from svn r3426]
2003-08-29 19:06:22 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
f110a51d1f Clarify that '-m' takes a _local_ file.
ref. <kjt9hv49dagqmvru0nq9qcc0f5p11vg0ma@4ax.com>

[originally from svn r3368]
2003-07-16 08:28:31 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
ef14e3959a Add section on "Access denied". This was mostly inspired by the password
camouflage problems with SSH-1.5-OSU_1.4alpha3.

[originally from svn r3358]
2003-07-12 13:25:43 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5161740aab Incorporate Brad Clarke's suggestion to use "REGEDIT /EA" rather than
"REGEDIT /E". On newer versions of Windows (verified on 2K), this will cause
the .REG file to be saved in REGEDIT4 format (ASCII) which can be read by
older Windows, rather than REGEDIT5 (Unicode). On older Windows, the extra "A"
is harmless (verified on Win98).

[originally from svn r3305]
2003-06-25 15:52:29 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
91061abf04 The specific SSH cipher algorithms supported by PuTTY weren't listed anywhere
in the documentation.
Added some detail - feel free to tweak.

[originally from svn r3284]
2003-06-21 20:21:29 +00:00
Ben Harris
a4d89d1d3e Suggest that local support staff are useful.
[originally from svn r3250]
2003-06-06 18:16:52 +00:00
Simon Tatham
e43e4c4cd1 Update a couple of bits of the FAQ. We do now default to SSH2, and
we do have a Unix port of PuTTY proper.

[originally from svn r3200]
2003-05-22 08:43:50 +00:00
Simon Tatham
8460ecd27d Yesterday's proxy enhancements also slightly nadgered the config
box, in that it started to expand under the weight of proxy options.
Now fixed, by folding the SOCKS version selector into the general
proxy type selector so there's one single 5- or 6-way radio button
set split over two lines. settings.c has of course grown a backwards
compatibility wart to deal with legacy config data.

[originally from svn r3168]
2003-05-07 12:07:23 +00:00
Simon Tatham
abb6b8ba8a The line-drawing paste config option has changed its meaning since
it was first designed. Alter the wording and documentation to match.

[originally from svn r3143]
2003-04-26 13:22:25 +00:00
Simon Tatham
4b6ffd99f1 Disable window title reporting by default, since it's a security
hazard. I considered removing it completely, but I can't rule out
the possibility of an OS that actually takes security of its
terminal devices seriously, and which might be able to make sensible
and safe use of this feature.

[originally from svn r3103]
2003-04-12 08:59:06 +00:00
Simon Tatham
a133e4c137 A poster on comp.security.ssh mentions that he had expected to find
the location of PuTTY's data storage mentioned in the manual section
about loading and storing sessions. This seems not unreasonable, so
I've put it there.

[originally from svn r3094]
2003-04-11 17:39:48 +00:00
Simon Tatham
3f83c3b140 ... of course, it would help if I remembered to _document_ dynamic
port forwarding. Ahem.

[originally from svn r3056]
2003-04-05 11:52:42 +00:00
Simon Tatham
a05d4fdbd0 Further .cvsignore updates.
[originally from svn r3044]
2003-04-02 09:14:38 +00:00
Owen Dunn
8397d66359 Update text about ports, hopefully not too controversial.
[originally from svn r3012]
2003-03-29 01:44:39 +00:00
Simon Tatham
2da920065f The general blurb on using Plink in batch mode ought to mention the
host key prompt, and specifically mention how to ensure it won't
bite you.

[originally from svn r2981]
2003-03-24 10:49:01 +00:00
Ben Harris
fded7e88c2 Mention xterm mouse reporting in the section on copy and paste.
[originally from svn r2969]
2003-03-20 22:12:12 +00:00
Simon Tatham
e2874c40c8 Gah, another duplicate keyword. I must stop creating new docs
sections by cut and paste.

[originally from svn r2956]
2003-03-18 09:03:31 +00:00
Simon Tatham
13c7bf5dd5 Error messages update. It's now abundantly clear that WSAECONNABORTED
is not the same thing as ECONNABORTED, so I've removed the `we're a
bit confused about this, send us details' text. And someone has just
been confused by `connection timed out', so I've added that too.

[originally from svn r2950]
2003-03-17 16:57:23 +00:00
Simon Tatham
4efe692e88 Overnight docs build found a duplicate section keyword. Oops. Fixed.
[originally from svn r2921]
2003-03-07 09:03:11 +00:00
Simon Tatham
c5181dc498 Richard B's patch to push erased text into the scrollback on ESC[2J
clears, and also to temporarily push the primary screen contents
into the scrollback while the alternate screen is active and bring
it back afterwards.

[originally from svn r2910]
2003-03-06 12:51:12 +00:00
Simon Tatham
616c837cf0 The long-awaited config box revamp! I've taken the whole config box
to pieces, and put it back together in a new table-driven form.
config.c sets up a data structure describing most of the config box;
wincfg.c adds in the Windows-specific options (so that config.c can
also form the basis for Mac and Unix config boxes). Then winctrls.c
contains a shiny new layout engine which consumes that data
structure, and windlg.c passes all WM_COMMAND and similar messages
to a driver alongside that layout engine. In the process I've sorted
out nicer-looking panel titles and finally fixed the list-boxes-are-
never-the-right-size bug (turned out to be Windows's fault, of
course). I _believe_ it should do everything the old config box did,
including context help. Now everyone has to test it thoroughly...

[originally from svn r2908]
2003-03-05 22:07:40 +00:00
Ben Harris
a4e81c06c7 Add 'what does "PuTTY" mean?', and add some IPA to the shortened pronunciation
answer.

[originally from svn r2904]
2003-03-04 14:14:17 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
8d1e6bca16 Fix documentation for `ssh2-keyderive-nonbug'.
[originally from svn r2868]
2003-02-19 09:54:45 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
862b846b74 faq-support:
Modified text to reflect the fact that the wishlist now shows bugs fixed
recently (FSVO "recently"). Hopefully I haven't made it too confusing.

[originally from svn r2852]
2003-02-15 18:47:22 +00:00
Simon Tatham
51d3248afc Remove another `please pester ssh.com for their agent protocol' bit.
[originally from svn r2832]
2003-02-11 14:10:20 +00:00
Simon Tatham
18e99dd71a Oops; overzealous copy-and-paste in the Windows Help context names.
[originally from svn r2805]
2003-02-05 09:05:35 +00:00
Simon Tatham
be9718cb13 Add another bug workaround, this one for old OpenSSH (<2.3) servers
which have a strange idea of what data should be signed in a PK auth
request. This actually got in my way while doing serious things at
work! :-)

[originally from svn r2800]
2003-02-04 13:02:51 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
d3d8714f06 Misc tweaks to proxy section
[originally from svn r2762]
2003-02-01 02:09:02 +00:00
Ben Harris
58176ee753 Be slightly less negative about other people's setting up PuTTY-related
fora.

[originally from svn r2760]
2003-02-01 00:29:38 +00:00
Ben Harris
8758cbf028 Mention the slightly odd "too many authentication attempts" message you
get from OpenSSH if you overfill Pageant.

[originally from svn r2757]
2003-01-31 23:18:44 +00:00
Simon Tatham
3a841b6e10 Antonin Brothanek points out that `Incoming packet was garbled on
decryption' could be a result of the wrong setting of the
`Miscomputes SSH2 encryption keys' bug workaround option.

[originally from svn r2751]
2003-01-30 10:19:05 +00:00
Simon Tatham
c370336a92 xterm apparently supports ESC[90m through ESC[97m to set bright
foreground colours, and ESC[100m through ESC[107m to set bright
background colours. Hence, so do we. Bright-foreground is
distinguishable from bold, and bright-background distinguishable
from blink, when it leaves terminal.c; the front end may then choose
to display them in the same way if it's configured to do so. This
change makes the xterm backend for Turbo Vision (!!!) work properly.
Untested on Mac.

[originally from svn r2734]
2003-01-27 23:03:31 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
4004de9163 Change website refs from putty/wishlist.html to putty/wishlist/
[originally from svn r2714]
2003-01-24 14:12:31 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
5b79eedce2 Add {Question} to faq-psftp-slow
[originally from svn r2697]
2003-01-23 17:01:27 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
f757326608 Mention Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn
[originally from svn r2683]
2003-01-23 12:30:26 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
c801a1f3c5 In pursuance of `icon-title-default-change':
Change the sense of cfg.win_name_always' representation in the UI (from
`Avoid ever using icon title' to `Separate window and icon titles').
Also update the docs to match reality.

[originally from svn r2681]
2003-01-23 11:37:54 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
870ccbef8c When voting for items already on the wishlist, a stonking new reason that
we hadn't already thought of might help.

[originally from svn r2627]
2003-01-17 13:32:51 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
57610f8580 Steven Shockley points out that the .PPK extension is far from obvious to
users. Update the file selection dialogs to mention it per the usual Windows
convention, and also sprinkle references to it throughout the docs. I've
also scattered hints that most tools need PuTTY's native format; perhaps this
will reduce the frequency with which FAQ A.1.2 trips people up.

[originally from svn r2625]
2003-01-16 15:43:18 +00:00
Simon Tatham
10eb26a7dd term->cfg is now a full copy of the Config structure, not a pointer;
and term_reconfig() now passes in a new structure which is copied
over the top. This means that the old and new structures can be
compared, and the _current_ as well as default states of auto wrap
mode, DEC origin mode, BCE, blinking text and character classes can
be conveniently reconfigured in mid-session without requiring a
terminal reset.

[originally from svn r2557]
2003-01-12 14:30:02 +00:00
Simon Tatham
fee1624c69 Support for XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 at the SSH server end, making use of
the remote IP/port data provided by the server for forwarded
connections. Disabled by default, since it's incompatible with SSH2,
probably incompatible with some X clients, and tickles a bug in
at least one version of OpenSSH.

[originally from svn r2554]
2003-01-12 14:11:38 +00:00
Ben Harris
2e8b94c8d4 Ask for a meaningful subject line on messages.
[originally from svn r2532]
2003-01-10 15:23:01 +00:00
Simon Tatham
d13a41a5f1 Update more copyright dates. Sometimes I think we ought to have an
automated means of doing this every year :-(

[originally from svn r2434]
2003-01-03 10:59:53 +00:00
Ben Harris
70458d6434 Mention that Shift-Ins works here.
[originally from svn r2424]
2003-01-02 14:23:36 +00:00
Simon Tatham
b2f4de02b9 Mention in the documentation that the method of generating RSA keys
might give a bit count one less than the one the user asked for. Two
people have been worried by this now, and it's probably worth
documenting that it's perfectly normal.

[originally from svn r2369]
2002-12-27 16:54:14 +00:00
Simon Tatham
a564ad3140 Support for doing DNS at the proxy end. I've invented a new type of
SockAddr, which just contains an unresolved hostname and is created
by a stub function in *net.c. It's an error to pass this to most of
the real-meat functions in *net.c; these fake addresses should have
been dealt with by the time they get down that far. proxy.c now
contains name_lookup(), a wrapper on sk_namelookup() which decides
whether or not to do real DNS, and the individual proxy
implementations each deal sensibly with being handed an unresolved
address and avoid ever passing one down to *net.c.

[originally from svn r2353]
2002-12-18 16:23:11 +00:00
Simon Tatham
8304f4e0dc Stop proxying connections to localhost by default; should fix
`x11-proxy-crash'.

[originally from svn r2348]
2002-12-18 12:18:54 +00:00
Simon Tatham
99b870dbc6 Implement `portfwd-loopback-choice'. Works on local side in Unix as
well, though it's a lot less useful since you still can't bind to
low-numbered ports of odd loopback IPs. Should work in principle for
SSH2 remote forwardings as well as local ones, but OpenSSH seems
unwilling to cooperate.

[originally from svn r2344]
2002-12-18 11:39:25 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
23a2fb17d8 faq-rh8-utf8: Problems with Red Hat 8.0 and UTF-8
[originally from svn r2327]
2002-12-15 11:51:21 +00:00
Ben Harris
76065bcb1e Remove a spurious 'q'.
[originally from svn r2257]
2002-11-25 19:02:23 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
d923ad791e Note about CTRL-C trick for copying text of error dialogs
[originally from svn r2240]
2002-11-23 11:22:57 +00:00
Ben Harris
4e25694ee5 Update the status of the Mac port.
[originally from svn r2239]
2002-11-22 00:07:31 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
fb334041df Note that default will change to SSH-2 next release
[originally from svn r2238]
2002-11-21 00:15:52 +00:00
Simon Tatham
d54e79bde6 Probably about time we mentioned the nascent Unix port in the FAQ.
Not that I desperately want to shout about it just yet, but I feel a
bit bad about the FAQ saying `we don't have a Unix port, anyone who
told you so was wrong'. :-)

[originally from svn r2185]
2002-11-02 16:27:17 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
406bc897b3 s/public/private/ spotted by Clint Hastings; also change a "public key"
to "key pair"

[originally from svn r2180]
2002-11-01 21:50:35 +00:00
Simon Tatham
ef5f289fc6 .HLP files should be ignored as well. Oops.
[originally from svn r2177]
2002-11-01 13:49:25 +00:00
Simon Tatham
d32e06c1fe Justin Bradford's patch for increased proxy robustness.
[originally from svn r2111]
2002-10-22 09:40:38 +00:00
Simon Tatham
07878d8b7c Implement Richard's really clever idea about bell overload mode:
it's automatically deactivated by any keypress, so that command-line
beeps from (e.g.) filename completion don't suddenly stop occurring,
but it still provides a rapid response to an accidental spewing of a
binary to your terminal.

[originally from svn r2107]
2002-10-20 13:23:30 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
2074897dfe Update to reflect 0.53 release.
[originally from svn r2026]
2002-10-10 14:39:35 +00:00
Simon Tatham
be71ff5568 Add a chapter explaining common error messages
[originally from svn r1984]
2002-10-01 16:27:36 +00:00
Simon Tatham
a394f20829 Add a new SSH2 bug: some servers apparently claim to be able to do
DH group exchange, but choke when you actually try it. Never
automatically enabled; manual control only.

[originally from svn r1982]
2002-09-26 18:37:33 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
4baee2a8e8 Add context help support for Proxy panel
[originally from svn r1974]
2002-09-23 09:55:11 +00:00
Simon Tatham
d33c200de1 Support username/password authentication in SOCKS 5.
[originally from svn r1972]
2002-09-21 16:07:43 +00:00
Simon Tatham
442a360fb2 Support username and password authentication when talking to HTTP
proxies.

[originally from svn r1971]
2002-09-21 14:03:05 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
9164a7b176 OpenSSH vs OpenSSL Q: mention older OpenSSH versions
[originally from svn r1958]
2002-09-14 10:24:27 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
c7fa2f6183 Updated usage messages for command-line utilities to reflect new options.
Updated manual to reflect reality (e.g. usage messages, '-p port' not actually
  implemented, sprinkle references to '-i keyfile').
(I've put "Release 0.53" in the messages; let's hope this doesn't cause a
  flood of "where is 0.53?" email.)
I don't guarantee that the result is entirely sane and sensible in all
  respects, but it is at least consistent.

[originally from svn r1951]
2002-09-11 17:30:36 +00:00
Jacob Nevins
3711af9a53 Note about separate client-server and server-client encryption in SSH-2
[originally from svn r1949]
2002-09-10 12:30:45 +00:00
Simon Tatham
3391745d2d Introduce the Bugs control panel, for overriding PuTTY's server
version number checks to determine the presence or absence of server
bugs.

[originally from svn r1936]
2002-09-08 13:28:38 +00:00