From: Jacob Nevins Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:16:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Flesh out `-m' caveats slightly. X-Git-Tag: 0.59~145 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7633e06f45872561c4ea9174cb94cceb6a966533;p=PuTTY.git Flesh out `-m' caveats slightly. [originally from svn r6595] --- diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index bd9e9392..d0b03c4a 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -649,11 +649,14 @@ a remote command or script from a file The \i\c{-m} option performs a similar function to the \q{\ii{Remote 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; -but this will not work on all servers (and is known not to work -with certain \q{embedded} servers such as routers). +a local file name, and it will read a command from that file. + +With some servers (particularly Unix systems), you can even put +multiple lines in this file and execute more than one command in +sequence, or a whole shell script; but this is arguably an abuse, and +cannot be expected to work on all servers. In particular, it is known +\e{not} to work with certain \q{embedded} servers, such as \i{Cisco} +routers. This option is not available in the file transfer tools PSCP and PSFTP.