PuTTY semi-bug long-usernames

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summary: Increase space allocated to auto-login username
class: semi-bug: This might or might not be a bug, depending on your precise definition of what a bug is.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
fixed-in: 2002-09-13 9f9739602b97412c2b7585e7a53549d253ae0331 0.53

Trivial fix: PuTTY truncates the `auto-login username' field to about 32 characters. Some sites have taken to allocating usernames of the form username@verrylongdomainname.org, so we've received some requests to increase this.

Now increased to ~100 chars.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2016-12-27 11:40:22 +0000)