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- DISCLAIMER
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- I take no responsibility for any harm this patch may cause you.
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- FILES
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- sshpatch.diff The patch file of my changes.
- ssh.exe pentium optimised binary ssh with my patch.
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- I patched the vt emulator in ssh 1.2.16 for OS/2, which you can get
- from http://www.snafu.de/~hmstahl/ssh/sshos2.html
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- You should either get the binary files from the above URL, or the
- source. If you get the source, make sure you can compile it, then
- apply my patch and recompile. Otherwise, just substitute in the
- ssh.exe here for the one you normally use.
-
- I've made two small changes. The first is an optimisation to the
- scrolling code. Before, if a line scrolled itself say up 10 lines, it
- would scroll up one line at a time. Whereas now it just jumps
- straight to the right position.
-
- The second patch is a iso-latin-1 to codepage 850 emulator. Whilst
- this is a DEC vt220 emulator and should emulate their multilingual
- character set, this is impractical, since most UNIX applications
- support iso-latin-1 instead. Most mail I receive (and send, and read
- on a remote machine), is in iso-latin-1. You can use codepage 1004
- (which really is iso-latin-1) on your OS/2 machine, but that means
- giving up the graphics characters of codepage 850. I put the
- translator in because my mail client (mutt, have a look at
- http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/) uses these graphics characters for
- threading, but I need the iso-latin-1 characters at the same time.
-
- I generated the table using GNU recode, trimmed it to only the
- characters above 160 decimal (these are the only printable characters
- in iso-latin-1 which aren't a part of 7-bit ASCII, which is common to
- both codepage 850 and iso-latin-1), and then debugged visually the
- conversions. It turns out GNU recode gets it wrong sometimes, so I've
- told them about that too.
-
- I am releasing these changes into the public domain. This does not
- reflect anything about the original version of ssh, or the vt220
- emulator - they have their own licenses.
-
- If you like these changes, why not drop me a line at
- dunc@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
-
- cheers
- ,dunc
- --
- Duncan Sargeant - metacitizen - http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~dunc/
- It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By
- definition, there are already enough people to do that. -G. H. Hardy
-