PuTTY wish ssh-default

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summary: Change PuTTY's default protocol from Telnet to SSH
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
priority: high: This should be fixed in the next release.
fixed-in: 2003-01-16 (0.54) (0.55) (0.56) (0.57) (0.58) (0.59) (0.60)

SSH is much more common than it was when this default was originally chosen.

As usual with default changes, this won't affect saved sessions, nor people who've saved Default Settings.

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