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It's been commented out for ages because it never really worked, and it's about to become further out of date when I make other changes to the agent client code, so it's time to get rid of it before it gets in the way. If and when I do get round to supporting asynchronous agent requests on Windows, it's now pretty clear to me that trying to coerce this ghastly window-message IPC into the right shape is the wrong way, and a better approach will be to make Pageant support a named-pipe based alternative transport for its agent connections, and speaking the ordinary stream-oriented agent protocol over that. Then Pageant will be able to start adding interactive features (like confirmation dialogs or on-demand decryption) with freedom to reply to multiple simultaneous agent connections in whatever order it finds convenient.
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
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'.