faq-missing-slash: the missing-slash-in-PSFTP OpenSSH bug keeps coming up.

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-\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.79 2004/09/09 10:37:17 jacob Exp $
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 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 
@@ -888,6 +888,29 @@ Windows XP Service Pack (but probably not before).
 means you need to use non-\cw{127.0.0.1} addresses to forward
 Terminal Services in the first place.)
 
+\S{faq-missing-slash}{Question} PSFTP commands seem to be missing a
+directory separator (slash). 
+
+Some people have reported the following incorrect behaviour with
+PSFTP:
+
+\c psftp> pwd
+\e        iii
+\c Remote directory is /dir1/dir2
+\c psftp> get filename.ext
+\e        iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
+\c /dir1/dir2filename.ext: no such file or directory
+
+This is not a bug in PSFTP. There is a known bug in some versions of
+portable OpenSSH
+(\W{http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697}{bug 697}) that
+causes these symptoms; it appears to have been introduced around
+3.7.x. It manifests only on certain platforms (AIX is what has been
+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).
+
 \H{faq-secure} Security questions
 
 \S{faq-publicpc}{Question} Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and