X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/blobdiff_plain/fc5a87117ed8b4f5bc6e0a920429f3544a505a95..a5a6cb30b201822bbf79d2b8baa943962c16be56:/doc/faq.but diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index d0ff0c50..dfaff76c 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.11 2001/11/25 16:57:45 simon Exp $ +\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.12 2001/11/25 19:22:47 simon Exp $ \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ try harder to keep connections alive instead of abandoning them. \S{faq-puttyputty}{question} When I \cw{cat} a binary file, I get `PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY' on my command line. -Don't \cw{cat} binary files, then. +Don't do that, then. This is designed behaviour; when PuTTY receives the character Control-E from the remote server, it interprets it as a request to @@ -567,10 +567,15 @@ response. Writing a binary file to your terminal is likely to output many Control-E characters, and cause this behaviour. Don't do it. It's a bad plan. +To mitigate the effects, you could configure the answerback string +to be empty (see \k{config-answerback}); but writing binary files to +your terminal is likely to cause various other unpleasant behaviour, +so this is only a small remedy. + \S{faq-puttyputty}{question} When I \cw{cat} a binary file, my window title changes to a nonsense string. -Don't \cw{cat} binary files, then. +Don't do that, then. It is designed behaviour that PuTTY should have the ability to adjust the window title on instructions from the server. Normally