Philip Sargent: updating link to putty - online edit of handbook/computing/winlaptop.html

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<h3>Software</h3>
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<li>Key management, either PuTTY or OpenSSH. You need one of these to generate and to use ssh keys on Windows. Otherwise none of git, scp, ftp (or rsync) will work.
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<li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_overview">OpenSSH for Windows</a> is new (fully working since 2021). <br>
- Use the Microsoft documented install method which puts the executables in <var>windows\system32\openssh\</var>.
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- We haven't got documentation for using OpenSSL with Filezilla yet. Please write it if you do this.
<br> OpenSSL integrates well with Github for Windows. <br>
<li><a href="../putty/putty.html">PuTTY</a> It includes command line tools ssh, scp
(pscp) and sFTP (psftp). The <a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY</a> installation includes puttygen and pagent which you also need. Version 0.77 was released on 2022-05-27.
(pscp) and sFTP (psftp). The <a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html">PuTTY</a> installation includes puttygen and pagent which you also need. Version 0.83 was released on 2025-02-08.
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<li><a href="https://desktop.github.com/">GitHub Desktop for Windows</a> - yes this works with the expo server git even though we don't use GitHub itself for expo software.
<li><a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/">VS Code</a> is a free (but not FOSS) editor with in-built git capability and plug-ins ("Git History",
"GitLens") which render git branches graphically. Also available for Linux.