From d8f8c3c3bf2d3b94d788173a707461dca4c116e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Nevins Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:34:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Limitations of -m option. [originally from svn r4337] --- doc/using.but | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index 2910ab57..b0b21725 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.23 2004/06/15 10:17:03 jacob Exp $ +\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.24 2004/07/20 15:34:39 jacob Exp $ \C{using} Using PuTTY @@ -549,7 +549,9 @@ command} box in the SSH panel of the PuTTY configuration box (see \k{config-command}). However, the \c{-m} option expects to be given a local file name, and it will read a command from that file. On most Unix systems, you can even put multiple lines in this file and -execute more than one command in sequence, or a whole shell script. +execute more than one command in sequence, or a whole shell script; +but this will not work on all servers (and is known not to work +with certain \q{embedded} servers such as routers). This option is not available in the file transfer tools PSCP and PSFTP.