Link to pTerm, an SSH client for the iPhone that's apparently based on PuTTY.

Attempts at damage limitation from the name similarity with pterm.

Also try to refresh the ports section of the FAQ a bit.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@8139 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e

diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but
index ca8bb9c..4c1c309 100644 (file)
--- 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