- 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- the window resizing configuration documentation was completely out of
date; rewrite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]
- 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]
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]
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]
"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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
