Tweak language re "Remote ports [accept connections from other hosts]"

[u/mdw/putty] / doc / using.but

diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but
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+++ b/doc/using.but
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.23 2004/06/15 10:17:03 jacob Exp $
+\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.29 2004/09/16 15:44:58 jacob Exp $
 
 \C{using} Using PuTTY
 
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ value using the configuration box; see \k{config-scrollback}.
 \S{using-sysmenu} The \i{System menu}
 
 If you click the left mouse button on the icon in the top left
-corner of PuTTY's window, or click the right mouse button on the
-title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu containing
-items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close.
+corner of PuTTY's terminal window, or click the right mouse button
+on the title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu
+containing items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close.
 
 PuTTY's system menu contains extra program features in addition to
 the Windows standard options. These extra menu commands are
@@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ then PuTTY cannot currently support it. If this is a problem for
 you, you should mail the PuTTY authors \#{FIXME} and give details
 (see \k{feedback}).
 
+For more options relating to X11 forwarding, see \k{config-ssh-x11}.
+
 \H{using-port-forwarding} Using \i{port forwarding} in SSH
 
 The SSH protocol has the ability to forward arbitrary network
@@ -350,7 +352,8 @@ your client PC can connect to the forwarded port.
 remote-to-local port forwardings (so that machines other than the
 SSH server machine can connect to the forwarded port.) Note that
 this feature is only available in the SSH 2 protocol, and not all
-SSH 2 servers support it (OpenSSH 3.0 does not, for example).
+SSH 2 servers honour it (in OpenSSH, for example, it's usually
+disabled by default).
 
 You can also specify an \i{IP address} to listen on. Typically a
 Windows machine can be asked to listen on any single IP address in
@@ -364,6 +367,10 @@ available for local-to-remote forwarded ports; SSH1 is unable to
 support it for remote-to-local ports, while SSH2 can support it in
 theory but servers will not necessarily cooperate.
 
+(Note that if you're using Windows XP Service Pack 2, you may need
+to obtain a fix from Microsoft in order to use addresses like
+\cw{127.0.0.5} - see \k{faq-alternate-localhost}.)
+
 \H{using-rawprot} Making \i{raw TCP connections}
 
 A lot of \I{debugging Internet protocols}Internet protocols are
@@ -446,8 +453,7 @@ tool.
 \I{saved sessions, loading from command line}The \c{-load} option
 causes PuTTY to load configuration details out of a saved session.
 If these details include a host name, then this option is all you
-need to make PuTTY start a session (although Plink still requires an
-explicitly specified host name).
+need to make PuTTY start a session.
 
 You need double quotes around the session name if it contains spaces.
 
@@ -549,7 +555,9 @@ command} box in the SSH panel of the PuTTY configuration box (see
 \k{config-command}). However, the \c{-m} option expects to be given
 a local file name, and it will read a command from that file. On
 most Unix systems, you can even put multiple lines in this file and
-execute more than one command in sequence, or a whole shell script.
+execute more than one command in sequence, or a whole shell script;
+but this will not work on all servers (and is known not to work
+with certain \q{embedded} servers such as routers).
 
 This option is not available in the file transfer tools PSCP and
 PSFTP.