PuTTY bug psftp-pscp-ignore-load

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summary: PSFTP and PSCP ignore the -load option
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
priority: high: This should be fixed in the next release.
absent-in: 0.53b 2003-03-21
present-in: 2003-03-24 0.54 2004-07-21
fixed-in: 2004-07-26 (0.55) (0.56) (0.57) (0.58) (0.59) (0.60) (0.61) (0.62) (0.63) (0.64)

The PSFTP and PSCP tools more or less entirely ignore the -load session option.

They unconditionally clobber the loaded details with do_defaults(), either from another session or Default Settings.

This probably crept in when -load was made non-deferred. Fixed in CVS.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-07-25 15:33:46 +0000)