which pretty much any module can call to request a call-back in the
future. So terminal.c can do its own handling of blinking, visual
bells and deferred screen updates, without having to rely on
term_update() being called 50 times a second (fixes: pterm-timer);
and ssh.c and telnet.c both invoke a new module pinger.c which takes
care of sending keepalives, so they get sent uniformly in all front
ends (fixes: plink-keepalives, unix-keepalives).
[originally from svn r4906]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
binary out of the PuTTY docs Makefile. Instead, I expect to find
Halibut as simply `halibut' on the PATH, and anyone who doesn't have
it there can always do `make HALIBUT=/path/to/halibut'.
[originally from svn r4895]
unwritten design principles, so would-be contributors won't have to
either read our minds or pay _very_ close attention to the code.
[originally from svn r4815]
that in turn was confusing the new doc/Makefile mechanism. Fixed the
former, and also put an additional safeguard in the latter in a
belt-and-braces sort of fashion.
[originally from svn r4806]
line for every single .but file at the bottom of each page of the
HTML PuTTY docs. However, we can't _always_ replace that with a
single SVN revision, because there isn't always one available (SVN
still allows mixed working copies in which some files are
deliberately checked out against a different revision).
Hence, here's a mechanism for doing better. It uses `svnversion .'
to determine _whether_ a single revision number adequately describes
the current directory, and replaces all the version IDs with that if
so. If it can't do that, it uses the version IDs as before.
Also, this allows an explicit version string to be passed on the
make command line which will override _both_ these possibilities, so
that release documentation can be clearly labelled with the release
version number.
[originally from svn r4804]
[originally from svn r4788]
[this svn revision also touched bmbm,caltrap,charset,enigma,filter,fonts,golem,grunge,halibut,html,lj,local,misc,polyhedra,putty-website,putty-wishlist,puzzles,pycee,sdlgames,svn-tools,timber,tweak]
I've done this by centralising information about newsgroups in feedback.but
and linking to that from elsewhere; I've also put in a link to Google Groups.
[originally from svn r4781]
This is mainly intended to make the documentation suitable for including in
distributions such as the Debian package, but won't be amiss on the web site
docs. It will look a bit out of place in the .HLP, but never mind.
[originally from svn r4690]
- change click-by-click advice on modifying saved sessions
- add `Restart Session' as another reason you might not want to close the
window on exit; other tweaks to this language
- mention Shift-Backspace action
- the window resizing configuration documentation was completely out of
date; rewrite
- add a note about Default Bold Background since it's caused confusion
- "remote terminal" -> "remote system" in terminal-type doc
[originally from svn r4686]
- soften language around changing-username-during-login section; with SSH-2
this is a misfeature of implementations rather than the protocol itself
- tweak new-host-key dialog text
[originally from svn r4681]
variables. It was no longer true (given that we support them in SSH-2 now),
and the new situation was probably too complex to explain in an introductory
chapter. And the utility of setting them seems to be marginal these days given
the lack of server support.
[originally from svn r4679]
(in the Windows version), and hopefully to clarify distinction between line
charset and local font, which has occasionally foxed me.
Cross-reference the Translation panel reference section from the intro
section in using.but and mention line-drawing characters there also.
[originally from svn r4654]
of the SSH servers I conveniently have access to (Debian stable OpenSSH --
3.4p1 -- and lshd) seem to take a blind bit of notice, but the channel
requests look fine to me in the packet log.
I've included all the signals explicitly defined by
draft-ietf-secsh-connect-19, but I've put the more obscure ones in a submenu
of the specials menu; there's therefore been some minor upheaval to support
such submenus.
[originally from svn r4652]
into the Connection panel, and implemented support for the SSH2
"env" request. (I haven't yet found a server which accepts this
request, so although I've visually checked the packet log and it
looks OK, I haven't yet been able to do a full end-to-end test.)
Also, the `pty' backend reads this data and does a series of
`putenv' commands before launching the shell or application.
This is mostly because in last week's UTF-8 faffings I got
thoroughly sick of typing `export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8' every time I
started a new testing pterm, and it suddenly occurred to me that
this would be precisely the sort of thing you'd want to have pterm
set up for you, particularly since you can configure it alongside
the translation settings and so you can ensure they match up
properly.
[originally from svn r4645]
PuTTY / Plink not to run a remote shell/command at all. Supported in
the GUI configuration and via the (OpenSSH-like) -N command-line
option.
No effort is currently made to arrange `nice' UI properties. If you
do this in GUI PuTTY, a full-size terminal window will still be
created, and will sit there with almost nothing in it throughout
your session. If you do it in Plink, Plink will not accept any kind
of request to terminate gracefully; you'll have to ^C or kill it.
Nonetheless, even this little will be useful to some people...
[originally from svn r4614]
- new function platform_get_x_display() to find a sensible local display.
On Unix, the Gtk apps weren't taking account of --display when
determining where to send forwarded X traffic.
- explicitly document that leaving X display location blank in config tries
to do something sensible (and that it's now blank by default)
- don't override X11Display setting in plink, since that's more properly
done later
[originally from svn r4604]
by default (although they can be included). There's also an option to remove
session data, which is good both for privacy and for reducing the size of
logfiles.
[originally from svn r4593]
No very good reason, but I've occasionally wanted to frob it to see if it
makes any difference to problems I'm having, and it was easy.
Tested that it does actually cause keepalives on Windows (with tcpdump);
should also work on Unix. Not implemented on Mac (does nothing), but then
neither is TCP_NODELAY.
Quite a big checkin, much of which is adding `keepalive' alongside `nodelay'
in network function calls.
[originally from svn r4309]
fit in the text output format. If only to stop myself getting
pestered with cron stderr messages every night, here are some
changes that remove over-long code lines from the PuTTY manual.
[originally from svn r4238]
and this caused public key authentication to fail in spite of
following our instructions to the letter. It can't hurt to
s/g-w/go-w/ here, just in case!
[originally from svn r4205]
(we didn't before) - `ssh-termspeed'.
In the process, I've removed the individual controls on the Telnet and
Rlogin panels and replaced them with one on the Connection panel (since they
were backed by the same storage anyway).
The terminal speeds sent in SSH are logged in the Event Log.
[originally from svn r4133]
case people are incapable of spotting it on the Feedback page. Also
add to both locations Owen's point about first-line support.
[originally from svn r4009]
- remove a couple of "fixed in 0.52" (or before) type questions
- mention Mac OS X port that someone was working on
- add a missing {Question}
[originally from svn r3997]
can do it by hand, I've converted the man page set from Unix PuTTY
into Halibut format, and enhanced the Makefile so it will build
them. At some future point this will also allow me to include the
man pages as an appendix in the main manual (once I _have_ a main
manual for Unix PuTTY).
[originally from svn r3966]
