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-\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.56 2004/02/10 19:32:08 simon Exp $
+\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.59 2004/02/13 12:19:26 jacob Exp $

 
 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 
 
 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 


@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ or any other port of PuTTY, they were mistaken. We don't.
 
 \S{faq-unix}{Question} Is there a port to Unix?
 
 
 \S{faq-unix}{Question} Is there a port to Unix?
 

-As of 0.54 (out soon), there are Unix ports of most of the
-traditional PuTTY tools, and also one entirely new application.
+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
 
 If you look at the source release, you should find a \c{unix}
 subdirectory containing \c{Makefile.gtk}, which should build you Unix


@@ -593,12 +593,11 @@ is liable to lead to problems.
 
 \S{faq-psftp-slow}{Question} PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP.
 
 
 \S{faq-psftp-slow}{Question} PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP.
 

-We believe this is because the SFTP and SSH2 protocols are less
-efficient at bulk data transfer than SCP and SSH1, because every
-block of data transferred requires an acknowledgment from the far
-end. It would in theory be possible to queue several blocks of data
-to get round this speed problem, but as yet we haven't done the
-coding. If you really want this fixed, feel free to offer to help.
+The throughput of PSFTP 0.54 should be much better than 0.53b and
+prior; we've added code to the SFTP backend to queue several blocks
+of data rather than waiting for an acknowledgement for each. (The
+SCP backend did not suffer from this performance issue because SCP
+is a much simpler protocol.)

 
 \S{faq-bce}{Question} When I run full-colour applications, I see
 areas of black space where colour ought to be.
 
 \S{faq-bce}{Question} When I run full-colour applications, I see
 areas of black space where colour ought to be.


@@ -623,8 +622,8 @@ the middle of a session, you will find that the change does not
 immediately take effect. It will only take effect once you reset
 the terminal.
 
 immediately take effect. It will only take effect once you reset
 the terminal.
 

-In version 0.54 (out soon), the behaviour has changed - changes to
-these settings take effect immediately.
+In version 0.54, the behaviour has changed - changes to these
+settings take effect immediately.

 
 \S{faq-altgr}{Question} I can't type characters that require the
 AltGr key.
 
 \S{faq-altgr}{Question} I can't type characters that require the
 AltGr key.


@@ -896,6 +895,36 @@ PuTTY web site?
 
 We already have some, thanks.
 
 
 We already have some, thanks.
 

+\S{faq-link}{Question} Would you link to my web site from the PuTTY
+web site?
+
+Only if the content of your web page is of definite direct interest
+to PuTTY users. If your content is unrelated, or only tangentially
+related, to PuTTY, then the link would simply be advertising for
+you.
+
+One very nice effect of the Google ranking mechanism is that by and
+large, the most popular web sites get the highest rankings. This
+means that when an ordinary person does a search, the top item in
+the search is very likely to be a high-quality site or the site they
+actually wanted, rather than the site which paid the most money for
+its ranking.
+
+The PuTTY web site is held in high esteem by Google, for precisely
+this reason: lots of people have linked to it simply because they
+like PuTTY, without us ever having to ask anyone to link to us. We
+feel that it would be an abuse of this esteem to use it to boost the
+ranking of random advertisers' web sites. If you want your web site
+to have a high Google ranking, we'd prefer that you achieve this the
+way we did - by being good enough at what you do that people will
+link to you simply because they like you.
+
+If you have software based on PuTTY, or specifically designed to
+interoperate with PuTTY, or in some other way of genuine interest to
+PuTTY users, then we will probably be happy to add a link to you on
+our Links page. And if you're running a mirror of the PuTTY web
+site, we're \e{definitely} interested.
+

 \S{faq-sourceforge}{Question} Why don't you move PuTTY to
 SourceForge?
 
 \S{faq-sourceforge}{Question} Why don't you move PuTTY to
 SourceForge?