| | 1 | This directory contains a Mac OS X port of PuTTY/pterm, running as a |
| | 2 | native Aqua GUI application. |
| | 3 | |
| | 4 | THIS PORT IS CURRENTLY UNFINISHED AND EXPERIMENTAL. It is _not_ |
| | 5 | considered to be of release quality, even if you've found it (and |
| | 6 | are reading this) in a PuTTY release source archive. You are welcome |
| | 7 | to try using it, but don't be surprised at unexpected behaviour. I'm |
| | 8 | not kidding. |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | In particular, I have not yet decided where OS X PuTTY should store |
| | 11 | its configuration data. Options include storing it in ~/.putty to be |
| | 12 | compatible with Unix PuTTY, storing it wherever is compatible with |
| | 13 | Mac Classic PuTTY, storing it in a natively OS X location, or |
| | 14 | sorting out the `config-locations' wishlist item and doing all |
| | 15 | three. Therefore, if you start using this port and create a whole |
| | 16 | load of saved sessions, you should not be surprised if a future |
| | 17 | version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different |
| | 18 | for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't |
| | 19 | say you weren't warned! |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include: |
| | 22 | |
| | 23 | Bit rot |
| | 24 | ------- |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | - the conversion of the old fixed-size 'Config' structure to the |
| | 27 | new dynamic 'Conf' was never applied to this directory |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | - probably other things are out of date too; it would need some |
| | 30 | work to make it compile again |
| | 31 | |
| | 32 | Missing terminal window features |
| | 33 | -------------------------------- |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | - terminal display is horribly slow |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | - fonts aren't configurable |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | - several features are unimplemented in the terminal display: |
| | 40 | underlining, non-solid-block cursors, double-width and |
| | 41 | double-height line attributes, bold as font rather than as |
| | 42 | colour, wide (CJK) characters, combining characters. |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | - there's no scrollbar |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | - terminal window resizing isn't implemented yet |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | - proper window placement (cascading down and right from the |
| | 49 | starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per |
| | 50 | the Apple HIG) is not implemented |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | Missing alert box features |
| | 53 | -------------------------- |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | - warn-on-close isn't implemented |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | Missing input features |
| | 58 | ---------------------- |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes |
| | 61 | is not yet supported |
| | 62 | |
| | 63 | - there's no Meta key yet. (I'd like to at least have the |
| | 64 | possibility of using Command rather than Option as the Meta key, |
| | 65 | since the latter is necessary to send some characters, including |
| | 66 | the rather important # on Apple UK keyboards; but trapping |
| | 67 | Command-<key> and sending it to the window rather than the |
| | 68 | application menu requires me to make a positive effort of some |
| | 69 | sort and I haven't got round to it yet. For those Mac users who |
| | 70 | consider their Command key sacrosanct, don't worry, this option |
| | 71 | _will_ be configurable and _will_ be off by default.) |
| | 72 | |
| | 73 | - there's no specials menu |
| | 74 | |
| | 75 | - mouse activity isn't supported (neither cut-and-paste nor xterm |
| | 76 | mouse tracking) |
| | 77 | |
| | 78 | Missing terminal emulation features |
| | 79 | ----------------------------------- |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | - currently no support for server-side window management requests |
| | 82 | (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window, |
| | 83 | request or change its position and size, change its title etc) |
| | 84 | |
| | 85 | - window title is currently fixed |
| | 86 | |
| | 87 | Other missing features |
| | 88 | ---------------------- |
| | 89 | |
| | 90 | - no Event Log |
| | 91 | |
| | 92 | - no mid-session Change Settings |
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