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Document that alacritty requires winpty-agent on windows

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@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ nix-shell -A alacritty '<nixpkgs>'
On windows you will need to have the `{architecture}-pc-windows-msvc` toolchain installed as well as [Clang 3.9 or greater](http://releases.llvm.org/download.html). On windows you will need to have the `{architecture}-pc-windows-msvc` toolchain installed as well as [Clang 3.9 or greater](http://releases.llvm.org/download.html).
Alacritty requires winpty on windows to emulate UNIX's PTY API.
The agent is a single binary (`winpty-agent.exe`) which MUST be in the same directory as `alacritty.exe`.
It's included in binary releases and fetched by `build.rs` when compiled from source.
#### Other #### Other
If you build Alacritty on another distribution, we would love some help If you build Alacritty on another distribution, we would love some help