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

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 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 
@@ -867,6 +867,50 @@ The reason why this only started to be a problem in 0.54 is because
 the alternate screen, and previous versions of PuTTY did not support
 this sequence.
 
+\S{faq-alternate-localhost}{Question} Since I upgraded Windows XP
+to Service Pack 2, I can't use addresses like \cw{127.0.0.2}.
+
+Some people who ask PuTTY to listen on localhost addresses other
+than \cw{127.0.0.1} to forward services such as SMB and Windows
+Terminal Services have found that doing so no longer works since
+they upgraded to WinXP SP2.
+
+This is apparently an issue with SP2 that is acknowledged by Microsoft
+in MS Knowledge Base article
+\W{http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884020}{884020}.
+
+For a fix, you'll need to contact Microsoft support, as mentioned in
+the KB article. We've been told that the process is reasonably easy,
+and is free of charge; and that the fix will be included in the next
+Windows XP Service Pack (but probably not before).
+
+(\e{However}, we've been told that SP2 \e{also} fixes the bug that
+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