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The previous platform-dependent ifdefs, switching between a system which tried to cope with spurious callbacks (which I'd observed on Windows) and one which tried to cope with system clock jumps (which can happen on Unix, if you use gettimeofday) have been completely removed, and replaced with a much simpler approach which just copes with system clock jumps by triggering any timers immediately. None of the resulting effects should be catastrophic (the worst thing might be the waste of CPU in a spurious rekey, but as long as the system clock isn't jumping around _all_ the time that's hardly critical) and in any case the Unix port has had a long-standing oddity involving occasional lockups if pterm or PuTTY runs for too long, which hopefully this should replace with a much less bad failure mode. And the code is much simpler, which is not to be sneezed at. [originally from svn r9528]
PuTTY README
============
This is the README file for the PuTTY installer distribution. If
you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and
installed PuTTY on your system.
What should I do next?
----------------------
If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP
to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the
Start menu.
If you want to use the command-line-only file transfer utility PSCP,
you will probably want to put the PuTTY installation directory on
your PATH. How you do this depends on your version of Windows. On
Windows NT, 2000, and XP, you can set it using Control Panel > System;
on Windows 95, 98, and Me, you will need to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT. Consult
your Windows manuals for details.
Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)
if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed
PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file
works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054
for information on how to solve this problem.
What do I do if it doesn't work?
--------------------------------
The PuTTY home web site is
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature
requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or
in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report
bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to
save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports
telling us `it doesn't work'.