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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
 
@@ -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?
 
-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
@@ -593,12 +593,11 @@ is liable to lead to problems.
 
 \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.
@@ -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.
 
-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.
@@ -896,6 +895,36 @@ PuTTY web site?
 
 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?