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-\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.47 2003/05/22 08:43:50 simon Exp $
+\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.49 2003/10/15 12:09:24 jacob Exp $
 
 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 
@@ -148,14 +148,15 @@ anyone else wants to try it.
 \S{faq-pscp-ascii}{Question} Can PSCP or PSFTP transfer files in
 ASCII mode?
 
-Unfortunately not. This is a limitation of the file transfer
-protocols: the SCP and SFTP protocols have no notion of transferring
-a file in anything other than binary mode.
+Unfortunately not.
 
-SFTP is designed to be extensible, so it's possible that an
-extension might be proposed at some later date that implements ASCII
-transfer. But the PuTTY team can't do anything about it until that
-happens.
+Until recently, this was a limitation of the file transfer protocols:
+the SCP and SFTP protocols had no notion of transferring a file in
+anything other than binary mode. (This is still true of SCP.)
+
+The current draft protocol spec of SFTP proposes a means of
+implementing ASCII transfer. At some point PSCP/PSFTP may implement
+this proposal.
 
 \H{faq-ports} Ports to other operating systems
 
@@ -189,10 +190,10 @@ 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 Unix ports of Plink, PuTTY itself, and also \c{pterm} - an
-\cw{xterm}-type program which supports the same terminal emulation
-as PuTTY. We do not yet have Unix ports of PSCP, PSFTP, Pageant or
-PuTTYgen.
+build you Unix ports of Plink, PuTTY itself, PSCP, PSFTP, and
+also \c{pterm} - an \cw{xterm}-type program which supports the
+same terminal emulation as PuTTY. We do not yet have Unix ports of
+Pageant or PuTTYgen.
 
 \S{faq-wince}{Question} Will there be a port to Windows CE or PocketPC?