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For a start, they now have different names on Windows and Unix, reflecting their different roles: on Windows they apply escaping to any string that's going to be used as a registry key (be it a session name, or a host name for host key storage), whereas on Unix they're for constructing saved-session file names in particular (and also handle the special case of filling in "Default Settings" for NULL). Also, they now produce output by writing to a strbuf, which simplifies a lot of the call sites. In particular, the strbuf output idiom is passed on to enum_settings_next, which is especially nice because its only actual caller was doing an ad-hoc realloc loop that I can now get rid of completely. Thirdly, on Windows they're centralised into winmisc.c instead of living in winstore.c, because that way Pageant can use the unescape function too. (It was spotting the duplication there that made me think of doing this in the first place, but once I'd started, I had to keep unravelling the thread...)
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'.