PuTTY README

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This is the README file for the PuTTY MSI installer distribution. If

you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and

installed PuTTY on your system.



What should I do next?

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If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP

to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the

Start menu.



If you want to use the command-line file transfer utility PSCP, you

will need to run this from a Command Prompt or equivalent, because it

will not do anything useful without command-line options telling it

what files to copy to and from where. You can do this by just running

the command 'pscp' from a Command Prompt, if you used the installer's

option to put the PuTTY installation directory on your PATH.

Alternatively, you can always run pscp.exe by its full pathname, e.g.

"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pscp.exe".



(Note that a Command Prompt that was already open before you ran the

installer will not have inherited the update of PATH.)



Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)

if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed

PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file

works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054

for information on how to solve this problem.



What do I do if it doesn't work?

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The PuTTY home web site is



    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/



Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature

requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or

in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report

bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to

save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports

telling us `it doesn't work'.

