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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Config file(s) instead of registry

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

Refer to PuTTY documentation. --Prikryl 07:57, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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)

There is an unofficial version which support this; PuTTY Tray

Maybe this should be mentioned in the article? Perhaps as an external link? Wmli 21:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I second the mentioning of PuTTY Tray offering portability over PuTTy in the article.--NeF (talk) 12:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

Merge PortaPuTTY into PuTTY

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

No - PortaPutty is an unofficial, modified version of putty and merging the two articles would cause confusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.7.36 (talk)

If you read the article more carefully, you can see that they have already been merged. :) -- intgr 07:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help Section?

Could someone please add a how to section?

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

"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)[reply]

Very true. Lets add a Bugs section where the problems are highlighted. The major bug of the missing help file is not addressed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.95.112.61 (talk) 06:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's a reasonably extensive online manual, which you can also download as a windows help file. PuTTY has its own bug list in any case, duplicating that onto Wikipedia would be rather pointless. Ewx 07:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portaputty - which files?

Something is wrong with my portaputty - it runs but appears to be using the registry as no extra files are generated and each new computer has no default sessions. I suppose the chances are that it is just NOT actually portaputty but a mislabeled putty, but without some more data about what portaputty's files are called I can't be sure it's not just getting confused in some other arcane fashion and storing nonregistry files somewhere off of the flash drive. "In files called xxxxxxxx.xxx" would be a nice edit to the main article, or someone could just tell me here. Thanks a lot. Homunq 18:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC) 01:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but wikipedia is not an instruction manual. You should consult portaputty's documentation. Ewx 08:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not a manual, I'm not asking for a how-to. But any encyclopedia could reasonably be asked to point to such documentation, if it existed (given space, which Wikipedia has); or, in the absence of such documentation, to provide such a simple and relevant fact as the filename (and even perhaps location).--Homunq 18:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article already links to the portaputty home page. If the documentation there (or that comes with it) isn't adequate, I suggest asking the author of portaputty itself to improve it. You will get much better results by asking someone who is likely to actually know the answer! Ewx 08:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's a portaPuTTY link at the bottom of the article — is this the version you tried? (Or am I missing something?) -- intgr 18:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

to me the pictures that are on this article look really ancient, so i made my own screenies :)

put them in if you guys want to, i retain no restrictions on them :) (except hiding the hostname :P)

they can be downloaded from here http://kjarni.cc/files/stuff/putty1.png and http://kjarni.cc/files/stuff/putty2.png

--Gunnaraztek 16:49, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The two pictures at the bottom of the page are redundant, since they don't provide any useful information aside from advertising remote systems to which PuTTY may connect. Tedickey (talk) 11:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Encryption

Would it be relevant to include some information on the legality of using PuTTY in countries where encryption is outlawed or is there already a wiki regarding this information we could link to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.51.125 (talk) 10:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MinTTY

MinTTY has a note to suggest a merge into this topic. Since MinTTY itself appears nonnotable, and has no sources (other than its webpage), that amounts to a one-sentence comment about it. Tedickey (talk) 20:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Usability of PuTTY

I didn't see that mentioned in the article. Usability of Putty right-click/left-click makes working on windows with multiple putty terminals superior to unix workstation with regular terminals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.144.52 (talk) 20:12, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Would need a reliable source. Your opinion is not enough. --88.130.87.128 (talk) 05:31, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PuttYwincrypt

I add a link on putty wincrypt, it is removed, Puttywincrypt is a fork on putty which add very usefull feature, I think he have his place here.

81.252.128.61 (talk) 09:50, 7 June 2012 (UTC) Daniel BABAULT[reply]

Read WP:EL for instance. Also WP:Notability TEDickey (talk) 09:54, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reception (sic)

There is little point to be made in adding links to articles written 10 years and more after the introduction of a program and marking that as "reception". As such, the section is not encyclopedic and should be removed. TEDickey (talk) 08:30, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The information is ok and encyclopedic, but some other section title might be better. Can't think of anything. Johnuniq (talk) 10:03, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Reception" as a title is fine, as this is the title most often used across Wikipedia. Maybe I'll continue digging to find more sources, but this article desperately needs some independent, secondary sources. I'm not especially concerned with how old the reviews are, but it might be relevant to mention this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dictionary is the place to look: the word doesn't apply to stale news. A useful source would be around 2000. TEDickey (talk) 23:11, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Four years waiting for better sources was enough. — kashmīrī ^TALK 03:50, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing wrong with the sources. Reliable sources don't become "stale". NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:53, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sources don't; news pieces do. 2009 quotes saying that "there is nothing better for Windows" are misleading in 2020. Moreover, software articles do not normally include a Reception section as it sounds promotional. — kashmīrī ^TALK 04:02, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What? No, it doesn't sound promotional. And, yes, they do have reception sections. See Windows XP#Reception and macOS#Reception. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Show me Reception in articles on minor software, not on operating systems for which we can indeed reliably talk about global reception. I checked Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Office and found none. Sorry, two old articles here do not make up for worldwide reception. — kashmīrī ^TALK 04:13, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Shifting the goalposts should be listed at WP:TE. I'm surprised it's not. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:22, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Re this revert https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PuTTY&curid=612928&diff=824185057&oldid=798126304 - the deleted text seems to approximate the FAQ's explanation for the name: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.53b/htmldoc/AppendixA.html#A.9.3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.109.143.157 (talk) 09:40, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]