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-\versionid $Id$
+\define{versionidfaq} \versionid $Id$
 
 \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ
 
@@ -292,11 +292,17 @@ testing in this area would be very welcome!
 
 \S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the Mac?
 
-There is a port to the Mac OS in progress. It's just about usable, but
-has an awful lot of gaps and rough edges that will need cleaning up
-before release (such as useful random numbers).
+There are several answers to this question:
 
-A separate port to Mac OS X is also underway.
+\b The Unix/Gtk port is already fully working under Mac OS X as an X11
+application.
+
+\b A native (Cocoa) Mac OS X port is in progress. It's just about
+usable, but is of nowhere near release quality yet, and is likely to
+behave in unexpected ways.
+
+\b A separate port to the classic Mac OS (pre-OSX) is also in
+progress; it too is not ready yet.
 
 \S{faq-epoc}{Question} Will there be a port to EPOC?
 
@@ -623,12 +629,17 @@ SCP backend did not suffer from this performance issue because SCP
 is a much simpler protocol.)
 
 \S{faq-bce}{Question} When I run full-colour applications, I see
-areas of black space where colour ought to be.
+areas of black space where colour ought to be, or vice versa.
+
+You almost certainly need to change the \q{Use background colour to
+erase screen} setting in the Terminal panel. If there is too much
+black space (the commoner situation), you should enable it, while if
+there is too much colour, you should disable it. (See \k{config-erase}.)
 
-You almost certainly need to enable the \q{Use background colour to
-erase screen} setting in the Terminal panel. Note that if you do
-this in mid-session, in versions before 0.54, it may not take effect
-until you reset the terminal (see \k{faq-resetterm}).
+In old versions of PuTTY, this was disabled by default, and would not
+take effect until you reset the terminal (see \k{faq-resetterm}).
+Since 0.54, it is enabled by default, and changes take effect
+immediately.
 
 \S{faq-resetterm}{Question} When I change some terminal settings,
 nothing happens.
@@ -700,7 +711,7 @@ Set the key's value to something like 10. This will cause Windows to
 try harder to keep connections alive instead of abandoning them.
 
 \S{faq-puttyputty}{Question} When I \cw{cat} a binary file, I get
-`PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY' on my command line.
+\q{PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY} on my command line.
 
 Don't do that, then.
 
@@ -907,6 +918,16 @@ reported to us).
 There is a patch for OpenSSH attached to that bug; it's also fixed in
 recent versions of portable OpenSSH (from around 3.8).
 
+\S{faq-connaborted}{Question} Do you want to hear about \q{Software
+caused connection abort}?
+
+In the documentation for PuTTY 0.53 and 0.53b, we mentioned that we'd
+like to hear about any occurrences of this error.  Since the release
+of PuTTY 0.54, however, we've been convinced that this error doesn't
+indicate that PuTTY's doing anything wrong, and we don't need to hear
+about further occurrences.  See \k{errors-connaborted} for our current
+documentation of this error.
+
 \H{faq-secure} Security questions
 
 \S{faq-publicpc}{Question} Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and