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@@ -55,10 +55,14 @@ PuTTY will \I{selecting lines}select a whole line or sequence of lines.
 
 If you want to select a \I{rectangular selection}rectangular region
 instead of selecting to the end of each line, you can do this by
-holding down Alt when you make your selection. (You can also
+holding down Alt when you make your selection. You can also
 configure rectangular selection to be the default, and then holding
-down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead. See
-\k{config-rectselect} for details.)
+down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead: see
+\k{config-rectselect} for details.
+
+(In some Unix environments, Alt+drag is intercepted by the window
+manager. Shift+Alt+drag should work for rectangular selection as
+well, so you could try that instead.)
 
 If you have a \i{middle mouse button}, then you can use it to
 \I{adjusting a selection}adjust an existing selection if you
@@ -123,9 +127,13 @@ Event Log into your bug report.
 
 Depending on the protocol used for the current session, there may be
 a submenu of \q{special commands}. These are protocol-specific
-tokens, such as a \i{\q{break} signal}, that can be sent down a
+tokens, such as a \q{break} signal, that can be sent down a
 connection in addition to normal data. Their precise effect is usually
-up to the server. Currently only Telnet and SSH have special commands.
+up to the server. Currently only Telnet, SSH, and serial connections
+have special commands.
+
+The \q{break} signal can also be invoked from the keyboard with
+\i{Ctrl-Break}.
 
 The following \I{Telnet special commands}special commands are
 available in Telnet:
@@ -207,6 +215,9 @@ Only available in SSH-2, and only during a session. Sends various
 POSIX signals. Not honoured by all servers.
 }
 
+With a serial connection, the only available special command is
+\I{Break, serial special command}\q{Break}.
+
 \S2{using-newsession} Starting new sessions
 
 PuTTY's system menu provides some shortcut ways to start new
@@ -331,7 +342,7 @@ doesn't, the manual for the \i{X server} should tell you what it
 does do.
 
 You should then tick the \q{Enable X11 forwarding} box in the
-Tunnels panel (see \k{config-ssh-x11}) before starting your SSH
+X11 panel (see \k{config-ssh-x11}) before starting your SSH
 session. The \i{\q{X display location}} box is blank by default, which
 means that PuTTY will try to use a sensible default such as \c{:0},
 which is the usual display location where your X server will be
@@ -460,6 +471,15 @@ theory but servers will not necessarily cooperate.
 to obtain a fix from Microsoft in order to use addresses like
 \cw{127.0.0.5} - see \k{faq-alternate-localhost}.)
 
+For more options relating to port forwarding, see
+\k{config-ssh-portfwd}.
+
+If the connection you are forwarding over SSH is itself a second SSH
+connection made by another copy of PuTTY, you might find the
+\q{logical host name} configuration option useful to warn PuTTY of
+which host key it should be expecting. See \k{config-loghost} for
+details of this.
+
 \H{using-rawprot} Making \i{raw TCP connections}
 
 A lot of \I{debugging Internet protocols}Internet protocols are
@@ -758,8 +778,7 @@ it off. These options are only meaningful if you are using SSH.
 For information on X11 forwarding, see \k{using-x-forwarding}.
 
 These options are equivalent to the X11 forwarding checkbox in the
-Tunnels panel of the PuTTY configuration box (see
-\k{config-ssh-x11}).
+X11 panel of the PuTTY configuration box (see \k{config-ssh-x11}).
 
 These options are not available in the file transfer tools PSCP and
 PSFTP.
@@ -861,7 +880,8 @@ PuTTY configuration box (see \k{config-ssh-prot}).
 \i{Internet protocol version}
 
 The \c{-4} and \c{-6} options force PuTTY to use the older Internet
-protocol \i{IPv4} or the newer \i{IPv6}.
+protocol \i{IPv4} or the newer \i{IPv6} for most outgoing
+connections.
 
 These options are equivalent to selecting your preferred Internet
 protocol version as \q{IPv4} or \q{IPv6} in the Connection panel of
@@ -880,6 +900,16 @@ This option is equivalent to the \q{Private key file for
 authentication} box in the Auth panel of the PuTTY configuration box
 (see \k{config-ssh-privkey}).
 
+\S2{using-cmdline-loghost} \i\c{-loghost}: specify a \i{logical host
+name}
+
+This option overrides PuTTY's normal SSH host key caching policy by
+telling it the name of the host you expect your connection to end up
+at (in cases where this differs from the location PuTTY thinks it's
+connecting to). It can be a plain host name, or a host name followed
+by a colon and a port number. See \k{config-loghost} for more detail
+on this.
+
 \S2{using-cmdline-pgpfp} \i\c{-pgpfp}: display \i{PGP key fingerprint}s
 
 This option causes the PuTTY tools not to run as normal, but instead