X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/2d24892b096bdd7cf97e2888b67bab53626af93f..e2a197cf4658f554fc653403bfe8aa340ae8c2fa:/doc/using.but diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index ae093b2d..ad5bab08 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.7 2002/08/07 19:20:06 simon Exp $ +\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.8 2002/09/11 17:30:36 jacob Exp $ \C{using} Using PuTTY @@ -350,12 +350,12 @@ straight into a session. To start a connection to a server called \c{host}: -\c putty.exe [-ssh | -telnet | -rlogin | -raw] [user@]host[:port] +\c putty.exe [-ssh | -telnet | -rlogin | -raw] [user@]host If this syntax is used, settings are taken from the Default Settings -(see \k{config-saving}); \c{user} and \c{port} override these -settings if supplied. Also, you can specify a protocol, which will -override the default protocol (see \k{using-cmdline-protocol}). +(see \k{config-saving}); \c{user} overrides these settings if +supplied. Also, you can specify a protocol, which will override the +default protocol (see \k{using-cmdline-protocol}). For telnet sessions, the following alternative syntax is supported (this makes PuTTY suitable for use as a URL handler for telnet URLs in @@ -481,14 +481,14 @@ more than one command in sequence, or a whole shell script. This option is not available in the file transfer tools PSCP and PSFTP. -\S2{using-cmdline-p} \c{-p} or \c{-P}: specify a port number +\S2{using-cmdline-p} \c{-P}: specify a port number -The \c{-p} option (you can also write it as \c{-P}) is used to -specify the port number to connect to. If you have a Telnet server -running on port 9696 of a machine instead of port 23, for example: +The \c{-P} option is used to specify the port number to connect to. If +you have a Telnet server running on port 9696 of a machine instead of +port 23, for example: -\c putty -telnet -p 9696 host.name -\c plink -telnet -p 9696 host.name +\c putty -telnet -P 9696 host.name +\c plink -telnet -P 9696 host.name (Note that this option is more useful in Plink than in PuTTY, because in PuTTY you can write \c{putty -telnet host.name 9696} in