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Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development, I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not having the right constness). Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types: - the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved. - I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param() const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function - I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could pass const string literals in to lookup functions. - stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
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?
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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'.