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I've shifted away from using the SVN revision number as a monotonic version identifier (replacing it in the Windows version resource with a count of days since an arbitrary epoch), and I've removed all uses of SVN keyword expansion (replacing them with version information written out by Buildscr). While I'm at it, I've done a major rewrite of the affected code which centralises all the computation of the assorted version numbers and strings into Buildscr, so that they're all more or less alongside each other rather than scattered across multiple source files. I've also retired the MD5-based manifest file system. A long time ago, it seemed like a good idea to arrange that binaries of PuTTY would automatically cease to identify themselves as a particular upstream version number if any changes were made to the source code, so that if someone made a local tweak and distributed the result then I wouldn't get blamed for the results. Since then I've decided the whole idea is more trouble than it's worth, so now distribution tarballs will have version information baked in and people can just cope with that. [originally from svn r10262]
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'.