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A.7.4 Plink on Windows 95 says it can't find WS2_32.DLL.
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A.7.5 After trying to establish an SSH-2 connection, PuTTY says ‘Out of memory’ and dies.
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A.7.6 When attempting a file transfer, either PSCP or PSFTP says ‘Out of memory’ and dies.
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A.7.7 PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP.
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A.7.8 When I run full-colour applications, I see areas of black space where colour ought to be, or vice versa.
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A.7.9 When I change some terminal settings, nothing happens.
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A.7.10 My PuTTY sessions unexpectedly close after they are idle for a while.
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A.7.11 PuTTY's network connections time out too quickly when network connectivity is temporarily lost.
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A.7.12 When I cat a binary file, I get ‘PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY’ on my command line.
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A.7.13 When I cat a binary file, my window title changes to a nonsense string.
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A.7.14 My keyboard stops working once PuTTY displays the password prompt.
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A.7.15 One or more function keys don't do what I expected in a server-side application.
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A.7.16 Since my SSH server was upgraded to OpenSSH 3.1p1/3.4p1, I can no longer connect with PuTTY.
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A.7.17 Why do I see ‘Couldn't load private key from ...’? Why can PuTTYgen load my key but not PuTTY?
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A.7.18 When I'm connected to a Red Hat Linux 8.0 system, some characters don't display properly.
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A.7.19 Since I upgraded to PuTTY 0.54, the scrollback has stopped working when I run screen.
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A.7.20 Since I upgraded Windows XP to Service Pack 2, I can't use addresses like 127.0.0.2.
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A.7.21 PSFTP commands seem to be missing a directory separator (slash).
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A.7.22 Do you want to hear about ‘Software caused connection abort’?
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A.7.23 My SSH-2 session locks up for a few seconds every so often.
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A.7.24 PuTTY fails to start up. Windows claims that ‘the application configuration is incorrect’.
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A.7.25 When I put PuTTY in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 on my 64-bit Windows system, ‘Duplicate Session’ doesn't work.
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A.8 Security questions
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A.8.1 Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and use it on a public PC?
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A.8.2 What does PuTTY leave on a system? How can I clean up after it?
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A.8.3 How come PuTTY now supports DSA, when the website used to say how insecure it was?
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A.8.4 Couldn't Pageant use VirtualLock() to stop private keys being written to disk?
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A.9 Administrative questions
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A.9.1 Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?
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A.9.2 Would you like free web hosting for the PuTTY web site?
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A.9.3 Would you link to my web site from the PuTTY web site?
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A.9.4 Why don't you move PuTTY to SourceForge?
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A.9.5 Why can't I subscribe to the putty-bugs mailing list?
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A.9.6 If putty-bugs isn't a general-subscription mailing list, what is?
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A.9.7 How can I donate to PuTTY development?
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A.9.8 Can I have permission to put PuTTY on a cover disk / distribute it with other software / etc?
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A.9.9 Can you sign an agreement indemnifying us against security problems in PuTTY?
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A.9.10 Can you sign this form granting us permission to use/distribute PuTTY?
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A.9.11 Can you write us a formal notice of permission to use PuTTY?
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A.9.12 Can you sign anything for us?
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A.9.13 If you won't sign anything, can you give us some sort of assurance that you won't make PuTTY closed-
source in future?
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A.9.14 Can you provide us with export control information / FIPS certification for PuTTY?
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A.9.15 As one of our existing software vendors, can you just fill in this questionnaire for us?
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A.9.16 The sha1sums / sha256sums / etc files on your download page don't match the binaries.
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A.10 Miscellaneous questions
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A.10.1 Is PuTTY a port of OpenSSH, or based on OpenSSH or OpenSSL?
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A.10.2 Where can I buy silly putty?
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A.10.3 What does ‘PuTTY’ mean?
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A.10.4 How do I pronounce ‘PuTTY’?
A.1 Introduction
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A.1.1 What is PuTTY?
A.1.1 What is PuTTY?
PuTTY is a client program for the SSH, Telnet and Rlogin network protocols.