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-\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.83 2004/11/15 15:57:28 jacob Exp $
+\define{versionidfaq} \versionid $Id$
 
 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ completely is the wrong solution and we will not do it.
 
 If you have host keys available in the common \c{known_hosts} format,
 we have a script called 
-\W{http://cvs.tartarus.org/putty/contrib/kh2reg.py}\c{kh2reg.py}
+\W{http://www.tartarus.org/~simon-anonsvn/viewcvs.cgi/putty/contrib/kh2reg.py?view=markup}\c{kh2reg.py}
 to convert them to a Windows .REG file, which can be installed ahead of
 time by double-clicking or using \c{REGEDIT}.
 
@@ -292,11 +292,17 @@ testing in this area would be very welcome!
 
 \S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the Mac?
 
-There is a port to the Mac OS in progress. It's just about usable, but
-has an awful lot of gaps and rough edges that will need cleaning up
-before release (such as useful random numbers).
+There are several answers to this question:
 
-A separate port to Mac OS X is also underway.
+\b The Unix/Gtk port is already fully working under Mac OS X as an X11
+application.
+
+\b A native (Cocoa) Mac OS X port is in progress. It's just about
+usable, but is of nowhere near release quality yet, and is likely to
+behave in unexpected ways.
+
+\b A separate port to the classic Mac OS (pre-OSX) is also in
+progress; it too is not ready yet.
 
 \S{faq-epoc}{Question} Will there be a port to EPOC?
 
@@ -623,12 +629,17 @@ SCP backend did not suffer from this performance issue because SCP
 is a much simpler protocol.)
 
 \S{faq-bce}{Question} When I run full-colour applications, I see
-areas of black space where colour ought to be.
+areas of black space where colour ought to be, or vice versa.
+
+You almost certainly need to change the \q{Use background colour to
+erase screen} setting in the Terminal panel. If there is too much
+black space (the commoner situation), you should enable it, while if
+there is too much colour, you should disable it. (See \k{config-erase}.)
 
-You almost certainly need to enable the \q{Use background colour to
-erase screen} setting in the Terminal panel. Note that if you do
-this in mid-session, in versions before 0.54, it may not take effect
-until you reset the terminal (see \k{faq-resetterm}).
+In old versions of PuTTY, this was disabled by default, and would not
+take effect until you reset the terminal (see \k{faq-resetterm}).
+Since 0.54, it is enabled by default, and changes take effect
+immediately.
 
 \S{faq-resetterm}{Question} When I change some terminal settings,
 nothing happens.
@@ -700,7 +711,7 @@ Set the key's value to something like 10. This will cause Windows to
 try harder to keep connections alive instead of abandoning them.
 
 \S{faq-puttyputty}{Question} When I \cw{cat} a binary file, I get
-`PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY' on my command line.
+\q{PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY} on my command line.
 
 Don't do that, then.
 
@@ -907,6 +918,16 @@ reported to us).
 There is a patch for OpenSSH attached to that bug; it's also fixed in
 recent versions of portable OpenSSH (from around 3.8).
 
+\S{faq-connaborted}{Question} Do you want to hear about \q{Software
+caused connection abort}?
+
+In the documentation for PuTTY 0.53 and 0.53b, we mentioned that we'd
+like to hear about any occurrences of this error.  Since the release
+of PuTTY 0.54, however, we've been convinced that this error doesn't
+indicate that PuTTY's doing anything wrong, and we don't need to hear
+about further occurrences.  See \k{errors-connaborted} for our current
+documentation of this error.
+
 \H{faq-secure} Security questions
 
 \S{faq-publicpc}{Question} Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and
@@ -931,7 +952,12 @@ PuTTY will leave some Registry entries, and a random seed file, on
 the PC (see \k{faq-settings}). If you are using PuTTY on a public
 PC, or somebody else's PC, you might want to clean these up when you
 leave. You can do that automatically, by running the command
-\c{putty -cleanup}.
+\c{putty -cleanup}. (Note that this only removes settings for
+the currently logged-in user on \i{multi-user systems}.)
+
+If PuTTY was installed from the installer package, it will also
+appear in \q{Add/Remove Programs}. Uninstallation does not currently
+remove the above-mentioned registry entries and file.
 
 \S{faq-dsa}{Question} How come PuTTY now supports DSA, when the
 website used to say how insecure it was?
@@ -1029,7 +1055,7 @@ Partly, because we don't want to move the web site location (see
 Also, security reasons. PuTTY is a security product, and as such it
 is particularly important to guard the code and the web site against
 unauthorised modifications which might introduce subtle security
-flaws. Therefore, we prefer that the CVS repository, web site and
+flaws. Therefore, we prefer that the Subversion repository, web site and
 FTP site remain where they are, under the direct control of system
 administrators we know and trust personally, rather than being run
 by a large organisation full of people we've never met and which is