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Author SHA1 Message Date
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