X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/b18bcea3146c163597c09a6d79c57dd7fab7d9ff..df0870fc8ceb5a8fea66a4d0fe00e7db12317e33:/doc/faq.but diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 914f5aa5..2068bee5 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.39 2002/11/22 00:07:31 ben Exp $ +\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.47 2003/05/22 08:43:50 simon Exp $ \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ @@ -20,18 +20,14 @@ listed there, it's been implemented. If it's listed as a change made development snapshots, in which case testing will be very welcome. \b try the -\W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html}{Wishlist +\W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/}{Wishlist page}, and see if you can find the feature there. If it's on there, -it probably \e{hasn't} been implemented. +and not in the \q{Recently fixed} section, it probably \e{hasn't} been +implemented. \S{faq-ssh2}{Question} Does PuTTY support SSH v2? Yes. SSH v2 support has been available in PuTTY since version 0.50. -However, currently the \e{default} SSH protocol is v1; to select SSH -v2 if your server supports both, go to the SSH panel and change the -\e{Preferred SSH protocol version} option. (The factory default will -\W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/ssh2-default.html}{change to v2} -in the next full release.) Public key authentication (both RSA and DSA) in SSH v2 is new in version 0.52. @@ -193,26 +189,17 @@ or any other port of PuTTY, they were mistaken. We don't. It's currently being worked on. If you look at the nightly source snapshots, you should find a \c{unix} subdirectory, which should -build you a Unix port of Plink, and also \c{pterm} - an +build you Unix ports of Plink, PuTTY itself, and also \c{pterm} - an \cw{xterm}-type program which supports the same terminal emulation -as PuTTY. - -It isn't yet clear whether we will bother combining the terminal -emulator and network back end into the same process, to provide a -Unix port of the full GUI form of PuTTY. It wouldn't be as useful a -thing on Unix as it would be on Windows; its major value would -probably be as a pathfinding effort for other ports. If anyone -really wants it, we'd be interested to know why :-) +as PuTTY. We do not yet have Unix ports of PSCP, PSFTP, Pageant or +PuTTYgen. \S{faq-wince}{Question} Will there be a port to Windows CE or PocketPC? -Probably not in the particularly near future. Despite sharing large -parts of the Windows API, in practice WinCE doesn't appear to be -significantly easier to port to than a totally different operating -system. - -However, PuTTY on portable devices would clearly be a useful thing, -so in the long term I hope there will be a WinCE port. +It's currently being worked on, but it's only in its early stages yet, +and certainly isn't yet useful. PuTTY on portable devices would +clearly be a useful thing, so in the long term I hope it can be +brought up to release quality. \S{faq-win31}{Question} Is there a port to Windows 3.1? @@ -233,9 +220,9 @@ testing in this area would be very welcome! \S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the Mac? -Eventually. The terminal emulation code has been ported, as has the -saved-settings infrastructure, but networking and a configuration GUI -still need to be done before the port will be of any use. +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. \S{faq-epoc}{Question} Will there be a port to EPOC? @@ -244,6 +231,10 @@ 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://www.s2.org/putty/}\cw{http://www.s2.org/putty/} + \H{faq-embedding} Embedding PuTTY in other programs \S{faq-dll}{Question} Is the SSH or Telnet code available as a DLL? @@ -560,7 +551,7 @@ Bourne shell derivative) or \c{.login} (if you use a C shell). Putting them in more general files such as \c{.bashrc} or \c{.cshrc} is liable to lead to problems. -\S{faq-psftp-slow} PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP. +\S{faq-psftp-slow}{Question} PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP. We believe this is because the SFTP and SSH2 protocols are less efficient at bulk data transfer than SCP and SSH1, because every @@ -766,6 +757,25 @@ key in the wrong format isn't optimal. To connect using SSH 2 to a server that supports both versions, you need to change the configuration from the default (see \k{faq-ssh2}). +\S{faq-rh8-utf8}{Question} When I'm connected to a Red Hat Linux 8.0 +system, some characters don't display properly. + +A common complaint is that hyphens in man pages show up as a-acute. + +With release 8.0, Red Hat appear to have made UTF-8 the default +character set. There appears to be no way for terminal emulators such +as PuTTY to know this (as far as we know, the appropriate escape +sequence to switch into UTF-8 mode isn't sent). + +A fix is to configure sessions to RH8 systems to use UTF-8 +translation - see \k{config-charset} in the documentation. (Note that +if you use \q{Change Settings}, changes may not take place immediately +- see \k{faq-resetterm}.) + +If you really want to change the character set used by the server, the +right place is \c{/etc/sysconfig/i18n}, but this shouldn't be +necessary. + \H{faq-secure} Security questions \S{faq-publicpc}{Question} Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and @@ -878,13 +888,11 @@ general-subscription mailing list, what is? There isn't one, that we know of. -If someone else wants to set up a mailing list for PuTTY users to -help each other with common problems, that would be fine with us; -but the PuTTY team would almost certainly not have the time to read -it, so any questions the list couldn't answer would have to be -forwarded on to us by the questioner. In any case, it's probably -better to use the established newsgroup \cw{comp.security.ssh} for -this purpose. +If someone else wants to set up a mailing list or other forum for +PuTTY users to help each other with common problems, that would be +fine with us, though the PuTTY team would almost certainly not have the +time to read it. It's probably better to use the established +newsgroup \cw{comp.security.ssh} for this purpose. \S{faq-donations}{Question} How can I donate to PuTTY development? @@ -934,8 +942,15 @@ PuTTY team can personally recommend Thinking Putty, which you can buy from Crazy Aaron's Putty World, at \W{http://www.puttyworld.com}\cw{www.puttyworld.com}. -\S{faq-pronounce}{Question} How do I pronounce PuTTY? +\S{faq-meaning}{Question} What does \q{PuTTY} mean? + +It's the name of a popular SSH and Telnet client. Any other meaning +is in the eye of the beholder. It's been rumoured that \q{PuTTY} +is the antonym of \q{\cw{getty}}, or that it's the stuff that makes your +Windows useful, or that it's a kind of plutonium Teletype. We +couldn't possibly comment on such allegations. + +\S{faq-pronounce}{Question} How do I pronounce \q{PuTTY}? -Exactly like the normal word \q{putty}. Just like the stuff you put -on window frames. (One of the reasons it's called PuTTY is because -it makes Windows usable. :-) +Exactly like the English word \q{putty}, which we pronounce +/\u02C8{'}p\u028C{V}t\u026A{I}/.