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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.7 2002/08/07 19:20:06 simon Exp $
+\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.9 2002/12/18 11:39:25 simon Exp $
 
 \C{using} Using PuTTY
 
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ to a port on a remote server, you need to:
 
 \b Choose a port number on your local machine where PuTTY should
 listen for incoming connections. There are likely to be plenty of
-unused port numbers above 3000.
+unused port numbers above 3000. (You can also use a local loopback
+address here; see \k{config-ssh-portfwd} for more details.)
 
 \b Now, before you start your SSH connection, go to the Tunnels
 panel (see \k{config-ssh-portfwd}). Make sure the \q{Local} radio
@@ -350,12 +351,12 @@ straight into a session.
 
 To start a connection to a server called \c{host}:
 
-\c putty.exe [-ssh | -telnet | -rlogin | -raw] [user@]host[:port]
+\c putty.exe [-ssh | -telnet | -rlogin | -raw] [user@]host
 
 If this syntax is used, settings are taken from the Default Settings
-(see \k{config-saving}); \c{user} and \c{port} override these
-settings if supplied. Also, you can specify a protocol, which will
-override the default protocol (see \k{using-cmdline-protocol}).
+(see \k{config-saving}); \c{user} overrides these settings if
+supplied. Also, you can specify a protocol, which will override the
+default protocol (see \k{using-cmdline-protocol}).
 
 For telnet sessions, the following alternative syntax is supported
 (this makes PuTTY suitable for use as a URL handler for telnet URLs in
@@ -481,14 +482,14 @@ more than one command in sequence, or a whole shell script.
 This option is not available in the file transfer tools PSCP and
 PSFTP.
 
-\S2{using-cmdline-p} \c{-p} or \c{-P}: specify a port number
+\S2{using-cmdline-p} \c{-P}: specify a port number
 
-The \c{-p} option (you can also write it as \c{-P}) is used to
-specify the port number to connect to. If you have a Telnet server
-running on port 9696 of a machine instead of port 23, for example:
+The \c{-P} option is used to specify the port number to connect to. If
+you have a Telnet server running on port 9696 of a machine instead of
+port 23, for example:
 
-\c putty -telnet -p 9696 host.name
-\c plink -telnet -p 9696 host.name
+\c putty -telnet -P 9696 host.name
+\c plink -telnet -P 9696 host.name
 
 (Note that this option is more useful in Plink than in PuTTY,
 because in PuTTY you can write \c{putty -telnet host.name 9696} in