Document cmdgen ability to read public-only keys.

[PuTTY.git] / doc / man-pag.but

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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 \S{pageant-manpage-name} NAME
 
-\cw{pageant} - SSH authentication agent for the PuTTY tools
+\cw{pageant} - PuTTY SSH authentication agent
 
 \S{pageant-manpage-synopsis} SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ that the server they are connecting to will accept.
 with an already-running agent to add or remove keys, list the keys, or
 extract their public half.
 
+The agent protocol used by \c{pageant} is compatible with the PuTTY
+tools and also with other implementations such as OpenSSH's SSH client
+and \e{ssh-agent(1)}.
+
 To run \c{pageant} as an agent, you must provide an option to tell it
 what its \e{lifetime} should be. Typically you would probably want
 Pageant to last for the duration of a login session, in which case you
@@ -256,6 +260,14 @@ output.
 
 }
 
+\dt \cw{-s}, \cw{-c}
+
+\dd Force Pageant to output its environment setup commands in the
+style of POSIX / Bourne shells (\cw{-s}) or C shells (\cw{-c})
+respectively. If neither option is given, Pageant will guess based on
+whether the environment variable \cw{SHELL} has a value ending in
+\cq{csh}.
+
 \dt \cw{--help}
 
 \dd Print a brief summary of command-line options and terminate.