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The active terminal screen is no longer an array of `unsigned long' encoding 16-bit Unicode plus 16 attribute bits. Now it's an array of `termchar' structures, which currently have 32-bit Unicode and 32 attribute bits but which will probably expand further in future. To prevent bloat of the memory footprint, I've introduced a mostly RLE-like compression scheme for storing scrollback: each line is compressed into a compact (but hard to modify) form when it moves into the term->scrollback tree, and is temporarily decompressed when the user wants to scroll back over it. My initial tests suggest that this compression averages about 1/4 of the previous (32 bits per character cell) data size in typical output, which means this is an improvement even without counting the new ability to extend the information stored in each character cell. Another beneficial side effect is that the insane format in which Unicode was passed to front ends through do_text() has now been rendered sane. Testing is incomplete; this _may_ still have instabilities. Windows and Unix front ends both seem to work as far as I've looked, but I haven't yet looked very hard. The Mac front end I've edited (it seemed obvious how to change it) but I can't compile or test it. As an immediate functional effect, the terminal emulator now supports full 32-bit Unicode to whatever extent the host platform allows it to. For example, if you output a 4-or-more-byte UTF-8 character in Unix pterm, it will not display it properly, but it will correctly paste it back out in a UTF8_STRING selection. Windows is more restricted, sadly. [originally from svn r4609]
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 and 2000, you can set it using Control Panel > System; on
Windows 95 you will need to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT. Consult your Windows
manuals for details.
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'.