X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/42af6a672d16302ee1b8971a7cc164120f7572ab..509afd76242d667345a926a5a373c1d26d74482f:/doc/faq.but diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index ca8bb9c9..4c1c3097 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ Currently, release versions of PuTTY tools only run on full Win32 systems and Unix. \q{Win32} includes Windows 95, 98, and ME, and it includes Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Vista. -In the development code, a partial port to the Mac OS (see -\k{faq-mac-port}) is under way. +In the development code, partial ports to the Mac OSes exist (see +\k{faq-mac-port}). Currently PuTTY does \e{not} run on Windows CE (see \k{faq-wince}), and it does not quite run on the Win32s environment under Windows @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ present time. If anyone told you we had an EPOC port, or an iPaq port, or any other port of PuTTY, they were mistaken. We don't. There are some third-party ports to various platforms, mentioned -on the Links page of our website. +on the +\W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/links.html}{Links page of our website}. \S{faq-unix}{Question} \I{Unix version}Is there a port to Unix? @@ -231,7 +232,9 @@ As of 0.54, there are Unix ports of most of the traditional PuTTY tools, and also one entirely new application. If you look at the source release, you should find a \c{unix} -subdirectory containing \c{Makefile.gtk}, which should build you Unix +subdirectory. There are a couple of ways of building it, +including the usual \c{configure}/\c{make}; see the file \c{README} +in the source distribution. This should build you Unix ports of Plink, PuTTY itself, PuTTYgen, PSCP, PSFTP, and also \i\c{pterm} - an \cw{xterm}-type program which supports the same terminal emulation as PuTTY. We do not yet have a Unix port of @@ -314,9 +317,22 @@ even on systems the developers \e{do} already know how to program for, it might be a long time before any of us get round to learning a new system and doing the port for that. -However, some of the work has been done by other people, and a beta -port of PuTTY for the Nokia 9200 Communicator series is available -from \W{http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/}\cw{http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/} +However, some of the work has been done by other people; see the +\W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/links.html}{Links page of our website} +for various third-party ports. + +\S{faq-iphone}{Question} Will there be a port to the iPhone? + +We have no plans to write such a port ourselves; none of us has an +iPhone, and developing and publishing applications for it looks +awkward and expensive. Such a port would probably depend upon the +stalled Mac OS X port (see \k{faq-mac-port}). + +However, there is a third-party SSH client for the iPhone and +iPod\_Touch called \W{http://www.instantcocoa.com/products/pTerm/}{pTerm}, +which is apparently based on PuTTY. (This is nothing to do with our +similarly-named \c{pterm}, which is a standalone terminal emulator for +Unix systems; see \k{faq-unix}.) \H{faq-embedding} Embedding PuTTY in other programs