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This gives me an extra safety-check against having mistyped one of the function prototypes that we load at run time from DLLs: we verify that the typedef we defined based on the prototype in our source code matches the type of the real function as declared in the Windows headers. This was an idea I had while adding a pile of further functions using this mechanism. It didn't catch any errors (either in the new functions or in the existing collection), but that's no reason not to keep it anyway now that I've thought of it! In VS2015, this automated type-check works for most functions, but a couple manage to break it. SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID in winjump.c can't be type-checked, because including <shobjidl.h> where that function is declared would also bring in a load of other stuff that conflicts with the painful manual COM declarations in winjump.c. (That stuff could probably be removed now we're on an up-to-date Visual Studio, on the other hand, but that's a separate chore.) And gai_strerror, used in winnet.c, does _have_ an implementation in a DLL, but the header files like to provide an inline version with a different calling convention, which defeats this error-checking trick. And in the older VS2003 that we still precautionarily build with, several more type-checks have to be #ifdeffed out because the functions they check against just aren't there at all.
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. On Windows 7 and similar versions, you can do this at
Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system
settings > Environment Variables.
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'.