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1 | This directory contains a Mac OS X port of PuTTY/pterm, running as a |
2 | native Aqua GUI application. |
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4 | THIS PORT IS CURRENTLY UNFINISHED AND EXPERIMENTAL. You are welcome |
5 | to use it, but don't be surprised at unexpected behaviour. I'm not |
6 | kidding. |
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8 | In particular, I have not yet decided where OS X PuTTY should store |
9 | its configuration data. Options include storing it in ~/.putty to be |
10 | compatible with Unix PuTTY, storing it wherever is compatible with |
11 | Mac Classic PuTTY, storing it in a natively OS X location, or |
12 | sorting out the `config-locations' wishlist item and doing all |
13 | three. Therefore, if you start using this port and create a whole |
14 | load of saved sessions, you should not be surprised if a future |
15 | version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different |
16 | for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't |
17 | say you weren't warned! |
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19 | Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include: |
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21 | Missing terminal window features |
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24 | - terminal display is horribly slow |
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26 | - fonts aren't configurable |
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28 | - several features are unimplemented in the terminal display: |
29 | underlining, non-solid-block cursors, double-width and |
30 | double-height line attributes, bold as font rather than as |
31 | colour, wide (CJK) characters, combining characters. |
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33 | - there's no scrollbar |
34 | |
35 | - terminal window resizing isn't implemented yet |
36 | |
37 | - proper window placement (cascading down and right from the |
38 | starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per |
39 | the Apple HIG) is not implemented |
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41 | Missing alert box features |
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44 | - warn-on-close isn't implemented |
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46 | Missing input features |
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49 | - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes |
50 | is not yet supported |
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52 | - there's no Meta key yet. (I'd like to at least have the |
53 | possibility of using Command rather than Option as the Meta key, |
54 | since the latter is necessary to send some characters, including |
55 | the rather important # on Apple UK keyboards; but trapping |
56 | Command-<key> and sending it to the window rather than the |
57 | application menu requires me to make a positive effort of some |
58 | sort and I haven't got round to it yet. For those Mac users who |
59 | consider their Command key sacrosanct, don't worry, this option |
60 | _will_ be configurable and _will_ be off by default.) |
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62 | - there's no specials menu |
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64 | - mouse activity isn't supported (neither cut-and-paste nor xterm |
65 | mouse tracking) |
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67 | Missing terminal emulation features |
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70 | - currently no support for server-side window management requests |
71 | (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window, |
72 | request or change its position and size, change its title etc) |
73 | |
74 | - window title is currently fixed |
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76 | Other missing features |
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79 | - no Event Log |
80 | |
81 | - no mid-session Change Settings |