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to a Unix-domain socket. This typically works fine when PuTTY is run on the same machine as the X server, but it's broken multi-hop X forwarding through OpenSSH; when OpenSSH creates a proxy X server "localhost:10", it only listens on TCP, not on a Unix-domain socket. Instead, when deciding on the details of the display, we actively probe to see if there's a Unix-domain socket we can use instead, and only use it if it's there, falling back to the specified IP "localhost" if not. Independently, when looking for local auth details in Xauthority for a "localhost" TCP display, we prefer a matching Unix-domain entry, but will fall back to an IP "localhost" entry (which would be unusual, but we don't trust a Windows X server not to do it) -- this is a generalisation of the special case added in r2538 (but removed in r8305, as the automatic upgrade masked the need for it). (This is now done in platform-independent code, so a side-effect is that get_hostname() is now part of the networking abstraction on all platforms.) [originally from svn r8462] [r2538 == fda998324345ba50a913655754303ce8f0a4cfde] [r8305 == ca6fc3a4daf51166a15693feffc967bee9e3f59a]
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'.