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+This directory contains a Mac OS X port of PuTTY/pterm, running as a
+native Aqua GUI application.
+
+THIS PORT IS CURRENTLY UNFINISHED AND EXPERIMENTAL. It is _not_
+considered to be of release quality, even if you've found it (and
+are reading this) in a PuTTY release source archive. You are welcome
+to try using it, but don't be surprised at unexpected behaviour. I'm
+not kidding.
+
+In particular, I have not yet decided where OS X PuTTY should store
+its configuration data. Options include storing it in ~/.putty to be
+compatible with Unix PuTTY, storing it wherever is compatible with
+Mac Classic PuTTY, storing it in a natively OS X location, or
+sorting out the `config-locations' wishlist item and doing all
+three. Therefore, if you start using this port and create a whole
+load of saved sessions, you should not be surprised if a future
+version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different
+for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't
+say you weren't warned!
+
+Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include:
+
+Missing terminal window features
+--------------------------------
+
+ - terminal display is horribly slow
+
+ - fonts aren't configurable
+
+ - several features are unimplemented in the terminal display:
+   underlining, non-solid-block cursors, double-width and
+   double-height line attributes, bold as font rather than as
+   colour, wide (CJK) characters, combining characters.
+
+ - there's no scrollbar
+
+ - terminal window resizing isn't implemented yet
+
+ - proper window placement (cascading down and right from the
+   starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per
+   the Apple HIG) is not implemented
+
+Missing alert box features
+--------------------------
+
+ - warn-on-close isn't implemented
+
+Missing input features
+----------------------
+
+ - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes
+   is not yet supported
+
+ - there's no Meta key yet. (I'd like to at least have the
+   possibility of using Command rather than Option as the Meta key,
+   since the latter is necessary to send some characters, including
+   the rather important # on Apple UK keyboards; but trapping
+   Command-<key> and sending it to the window rather than the
+   application menu requires me to make a positive effort of some
+   sort and I haven't got round to it yet. For those Mac users who
+   consider their Command key sacrosanct, don't worry, this option
+   _will_ be configurable and _will_ be off by default.)
+
+ - there's no specials menu
+
+ - mouse activity isn't supported (neither cut-and-paste nor xterm
+   mouse tracking)
+
+Missing terminal emulation features
+-----------------------------------
+
+ - currently no support for server-side window management requests
+   (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window,
+   request or change its position and size, change its title etc)
+
+ - window title is currently fixed
+
+Other missing features
+----------------------
+
+ - no Event Log
+
+ - no mid-session Change Settings