Add a couple of extra FAQ entries.

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\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.23 2002/03/24 14:08:13 jacob Exp $
\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.24 2002/04/01 15:18:29 simon Exp $
\A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
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server instead); but it doesn't necessarily mean you've actually run
out of memory.
\S{faq-outofmem2}{Question} When attempting a file transfer, either
PSCP or PSFTP says \q{Out of memory} and dies.
This is almost always caused by your login scripts on the server
generating output. PSCP or PSFTP will receive that output when they
were expecting to see the start of a file transfer protocol, and
they will attempt to interpret the output as file-transfer protocol.
This will usually lead to an \q{out of memory} error for much the
same reasons as given in \k{faq-outofmem}.
This is a setup problem in your account on your server, \e{not} a
PSCP/PSFTP bug. Your login scripts should \e{never} generate output
during non-interactive sessions; secure file transfer is not the
only form of remote access that will break if they do.
On Unix, a simple fix is to ensure that all the parts of your login
script that might generate output are in \c{.profile} (if you use a
Bourne shell derivative) or \c{.login} (if you use a C shell).
Putting them in more general files such as \c{.bashrc} or \c{.cshrc}
is liable to lead to problems.
\S{faq-psftp-slow} PSFTP transfers files much slower than PSCP.
We believe this is because the SFTP and SSH2 protocols are less
efficient at bulk data transfer than SCP and SSH1, because every
block of data transferred requires an acknowledgment from the far
end. It would in theory be possible to queue several blocks of data
to get round this speed problem, but as yet we haven't done the
coding. If you really want this fixed, feel free to offer to help.
\S{faq-bce}{Question} When I run full-colour applications, I see
areas of black space where colour ought to be.