PuTTY wish command-line

summary: Better command line options
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
priority: high: This should be fixed in the next release.
fixed-in: 2002-08-10 0.53 (0.54) (0.55) (0.56) (0.57) (0.58) (0.59) (0.60) (0.61) (0.62)

The PuTTY tools have a pathetic set of command-line options. Among the things we should support but don't are:

Unified command-line handling between all the tools, including the GUI ones. (This is moderately tricky in itself, because we'd have to split up the single command line received by WinMain() into argc and argv. Interestingly shell32.dll provides a function called CommandLineToArgvW() which does this for Unicode strings, but appears to provide no equivalent for ordinary strings.)
Command-line control of at least SSH protocol, compression, port forwarding, and public-key authentication. Perhaps more.
As many of these options as possible should be command-line compatible with OpenSSH's corresponding options. The last thing we want to do is make life deliberately harder for people.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-11-16 15:27:00 +0000)