Talk:PuTTY

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[edit] SFTP-Plus

82.153.185.73 claims that "SFTP-Plus" is an "alternate version" (presumably based on) PuTTY's code. Does anyone know whether this is true?

(That IP's only contributions to date have been plugs for SFTP Plus; maybe self-promotion?)

-- JTN 22:06, 2005 July 27 (UTC)

I'm sorry but given that putty is an important part of stablishg secure channels, a misleading advertisement from an anonymoius ip looks a little bit shady to me (or maybe I'm a bit paranoid, who knows) but for safety I'm removing it. drini ☎ 22:13, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TTY

Should there be a reference to the fact that the name is PuTTY and not Putty in the article? Does it come from tty (Unix) or another abbreviation? -Hyad 06:51, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

The PuTTY capitalization is used consistently throughout, which I'd have thought a reasonable hint as to the normal spelling. --Ewx 10:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Config file(s) instead of registery

Has there been any thought to using 1 or more config files instead of the registry for settings?

I sometimes have to move from machine to machine, and I cannot be changing the regisrty with my own settings every time I do.

I keep much of my informaiton on a USB memory card, and it would be really nice if this could be self contained.

--Ttremain 04:54, 30 August 2005

  • Wikipedia is really not the right place to ask this sort of question, but: see also the PuTTY wishlist. -- JTN 15:25, 2005 August 31 (UTC)

[edit] On Portal:Free software, PuTTY is currently the selected article

(2006-09-13) Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was Tor (anonymity network). Gronky 21:23, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

The selected article has rotated again and is now ReactOS. Gronky 11:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge PortaPuTTY into PuTTY

YES! --80.129.30.110 21:37, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

No - PortaPutty is an unofficial, modified version of putty and merging the two articles would cause confusion.

[edit] Help Section?

Could someone please add a how to section?

Rob Gyergyek 18:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

"How tos" are out of the scope of Wikipedia – Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Please see what Wikipedia is not. -- intgr 18:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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