putty-win32s

A port of putty 0.76 to Windows 3.1+Win32s.

Maybe this may help close this bug: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/port-win32s.html

The whole windows sourcetree builds, and loads.

Building

To build this, you need the following:

• OpenWatcom 2.0 beta under Windows

In Open Watcom Build Environment (i.e. a cmd window that has owsetenv.bat executed), cd windows and then nmake -f Makefile.wc to compile. (OpenWatcom package should have both nmake.exe and rc.exe included)

Prerequistes

• Windows 3.1 (or 3.11 or 3.2 PRC version), NT 3.50 (with comctl32.dll update from win32s below, or broken config dialog), NT 3.51 or later, Windows 95 or later
• Microsoft TCP/IP-32 version 3.11b or a compatible winsock 1.1 stack, for example, Trumpet Winsock
• Microsoft Win32s 1.25 (OLE) with comctl32.dll from https://archive.org/download/win32s/win32s-1.30-build-140-beta.7z

Running

• As the UNIX codepath for sessions saving/loading is used, you should set a HOME environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT
• If not, it defaults to {Windows-drive}:\HOME
• run putty.exe

What works

• the GUI apps, at least putty.exe, puttytel.exe and puttygen.exe
• limited UTF-8 support based on Active Code Page, for example CP1252 for en-US version of Windows, CP932 for ja-JP, CP950 for zh-TW, etc.
  • controllable in AnsiCP= entry of [Nls] section in {Windows-directory}\SYSTEM\win32s.ini

What doesn't work

• Unicode that excceeds what Active Code Page (ACP) supports.
• pageant.exe.
• console applications. They'll load, and that's all, win32s doesn't support console applications.

As a replacement, there's an updated ssh2dos port here: https://github.com/AnttiTakala/SSH2DOS

Working scp2dos.exe/scp2d386.exe, sftpdos.exe/sftpd386.exe and ssh2dos.exe/ssh2d386.exe are now provided in releases.

The 386 variants are using the DOS32A extender which, in my experience, works correctly under win3.1.

Of course, they'll require a working wattcp environment, and either 2 NICs or something like ndis3pkt.