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In order to list cross-certifiable host keys in the GUI specials menu, the SSH backend has been inventing new values on the end of the Telnet_Special enumeration, starting from the value TS_LOCALSTART. This is inelegant, and also makes it awkward to break up special handlers (e.g. to dispatch different specials to different SSH layers), since if all you know about a special is that it's somewhere in the TS_LOCALSTART+n space, you can't tell what _general kind_ of thing it is. Also, if I ever need another open-ended set of specials in future, I'll have to remember which TS_LOCALSTART+n codes are in which set. So here's a revamp that causes every special to take an extra integer argument. For all previously numbered specials, this argument is passed as zero and ignored, but there's a new main special code for SSH host key cross-certification, in which the integer argument is an index into the backend's list of available keys. TS_LOCALSTART is now a thing of the past: if I need any other open-ended sets of specials in future, I can add a new top-level code with a nicely separated space of arguments. While I'm at it, I've removed the legacy misnomer 'Telnet_Special' from the code completely; the enum is now SessionSpecialCode, the struct containing full details of a menu entry is SessionSpecial, and the enum values now start SS_ rather than TS_.
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
https://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'.