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Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank

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Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank

3

If you only need text consoles, telnet/ditto should just work,
why would you need VNC?

Anyway, I just completed the vnc port, everything works fine so far.

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank
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Frank Liu wrote in message …

If you only need text consoles, telnet/ditto should just work,
why would you need VNC?

I agree entirely, however we have too many windows wenies that
live in VNC… besides, it also gave me a very tight management
point for auditing if I wanted it.

Anyway, I just completed the vnc port, everything works fine so far.

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank

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5

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank Liu wrote in message …

If you only need text consoles, telnet/ditto should just work,
why would you need VNC?

I agree entirely, however we have too many windows wenies that
live in VNC… besides, it also gave me a very tight management
point for auditing if I wanted it.

Anyway, I just completed the vnc port, everything works fine so far.

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

client and server. X window. (We don’t use Photon here, we picked X Window
back in 94/95 per QSSL’s recommendation and invested a lot since. )
frank

Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank




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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank Liu wrote in message …

If you only need text consoles, telnet/ditto should just work,
why would you need VNC?

I agree entirely, however we have too many windows wenies that
live in VNC… besides, it also gave me a very tight management
point for auditing if I wanted it.

Anyway, I just completed the vnc port, everything works fine so far.

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

client and server. X window. (We don’t use Photon here, we picked X Window
back in 94/95 per QSSL’s recommendation and invested a lot since. )
frank

Hi Frank.

does your vnc server compile and run on RTP6.1 ?
the reason i ask is not everyones a windas weenie,
personally i want to Ami-VNC-client to a RTP-VNC-server.

were might the link be ?.

on a side note i did try running a RTP-UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator)
with amiga Piccasso4 gfx screens on one RTP6.1 and Ditto`ing to it
from another RTP6.1 machine bit that really screws up the Ditto
windows when trying to view UAE windows/screens/diplays/whatever-ya-
personally-can-em on the other machine and wonder if a VNC server/client
combination might work slightly better than a Ditto in this respect ?.

i`m not sure weather its a BAD bug in Xphoton crashing or Ditto as yet,
but i suspect Xphoton is the main problem, at least were cpu intensive
apps are concerned such as UAE-0.7.6 ( cant get UAE-8.17 to compile,
Xphoton not RTP Photon native).

Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank





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Paul May, Manchester, UK,
Phoenix Core © 1999, Phoenix Developer Consortium © 2000, Team Phx © 1999
Phinixi Technologies International LTD © 2000, Phinixi © 2000

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My version is for QNX4. Given the fact that RTP is more like Unix
than QNX4, I would think it should be easy to get VNC to work in RTP.
At this time, I am trying to avoid X/RTP work. I think it will be
worthwhile to spend time until at least the following two are done
in RTP:

  1. de-couple mouse driver from Photon
    the current XFree86 port (was done several years ago) only supports
    serial port mouse because RTP has a serial driver. Other mouse drivers
    only work with Photon.
  2. Unix domain socket support
    to have a better X local connection mechanism.

the second one is probably less important because you can still do
localhost:0.0 for the local connection but a better mouse support
is definitely required for X. Why would you want X/GUI if you can
use the mouse?

Frank

On 1 Sep 2001, Paul May wrote:

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank Liu wrote in message …

If you only need text consoles, telnet/ditto should just work,
why would you need VNC?

I agree entirely, however we have too many windows wenies that
live in VNC… besides, it also gave me a very tight management
point for auditing if I wanted it.

Anyway, I just completed the vnc port, everything works fine so far.

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

client and server. X window. (We don’t use Photon here, we picked X Window
back in 94/95 per QSSL’s recommendation and invested a lot since. )
frank


Hi Frank.

does your vnc server compile and run on RTP6.1 ?
the reason i ask is not everyones a windas weenie,
personally i want to Ami-VNC-client to a RTP-VNC-server.

were might the link be ?.

on a side note i did try running a RTP-UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator)
with amiga Piccasso4 gfx screens on one RTP6.1 and Ditto`ing to it
from another RTP6.1 machine bit that really screws up the Ditto
windows when trying to view UAE windows/screens/diplays/whatever-ya-
personally-can-em on the other machine and wonder if a VNC server/client
combination might work slightly better than a Ditto in this respect ?.

i`m not sure weather its a BAD bug in Xphoton crashing or Ditto as yet,
but i suspect Xphoton is the main problem, at least were cpu intensive
apps are concerned such as UAE-0.7.6 ( cant get UAE-8.17 to compile,
Xphoton not RTP Photon native).


Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank











Paul May, Manchester, UK,
Phoenix Core © 1999, Phoenix Developer Consortium © 2000, Team Phx © 1999
Phinixi Technologies International LTD © 2000, Phinixi © 2000

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I just completed the VNC server port to RTP6.1, I will include it
in my XFree86 4.1 download.

Paul May <paul@phinixi.com.fake.com> wrote:

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

client and server. X window. (We don’t use Photon here, we picked X Window
back in 94/95 per QSSL’s recommendation and invested a lot since. )
frank



Hi Frank.

does your vnc server compile and run on RTP6.1 ?
the reason i ask is not everyones a windas weenie,
personally i want to Ami-VNC-client to a RTP-VNC-server.

were might the link be ?.

on a side note i did try running a RTP-UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator)
with amiga Piccasso4 gfx screens on one RTP6.1 and Ditto`ing to it
from another RTP6.1 machine bit that really screws up the Ditto
windows when trying to view UAE windows/screens/diplays/whatever-ya-
personally-can-em on the other machine and wonder if a VNC server/client
combination might work slightly better than a Ditto in this respect ?.

i`m not sure weather its a BAD bug in Xphoton crashing or Ditto as yet,
but i suspect Xphoton is the main problem, at least were cpu intensive
apps are concerned such as UAE-0.7.6 ( cant get UAE-8.17 to compile,
Xphoton not RTP Photon native).


Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank




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Frank…

Your works is great! I appreciate your effort, specially since I would
now know how to do this myself! :slight_smile:

Regards…

Miguel.



fliu@bb.vipstage.com wrote:

I just completed the VNC server port to RTP6.1, I will include it
in my XFree86 4.1 download.

Paul May <> paul@phinixi.com.fake.com> > wrote:

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

client and server. X window. (We don’t use Photon here, we picked X Window
back in 94/95 per QSSL’s recommendation and invested a lot since. )
frank

Hi Frank.

does your vnc server compile and run on RTP6.1 ?
the reason i ask is not everyones a windas weenie,
personally i want to Ami-VNC-client to a RTP-VNC-server.

were might the link be ?.

on a side note i did try running a RTP-UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator)
with amiga Piccasso4 gfx screens on one RTP6.1 and Ditto`ing to it
from another RTP6.1 machine bit that really screws up the Ditto
windows when trying to view UAE windows/screens/diplays/whatever-ya-
personally-can-em on the other machine and wonder if a VNC server/client
combination might work slightly better than a Ditto in this respect ?.

i`m not sure weather its a BAD bug in Xphoton crashing or Ditto as yet,
but i suspect Xphoton is the main problem, at least were cpu intensive
apps are concerned such as UAE-0.7.6 ( cant get UAE-8.17 to compile,
Xphoton not RTP Photon native).


Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank





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my opinions are mine, only mine, solely mine, and they are not related
in any possible way to the institution(s) in which I study and work.

Miguel Simon
Research Engineer
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Oklahoma
http://www.amerobotics.ou.edu/
http://www.saic.com

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It is now available for download at OpenQNX site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openqnx/

Frank

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Miguel Simon wrote:

Frank…

Your works is great! I appreciate your effort, specially since I would
now know how to do this myself! > :slight_smile:

Regards…

Miguel.



fliu@bb.vipstage.com > wrote:

I just completed the VNC server port to RTP6.1, I will include it
in my XFree86 4.1 download.

Paul May <> paul@phinixi.com.fake.com> > wrote:

Client? Server? Photon is assume?

client and server. X window. (We don’t use Photon here, we picked X Window
back in 94/95 per QSSL’s recommendation and invested a lot since. )
frank

Hi Frank.

does your vnc server compile and run on RTP6.1 ?
the reason i ask is not everyones a windas weenie,
personally i want to Ami-VNC-client to a RTP-VNC-server.

were might the link be ?.

on a side note i did try running a RTP-UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator)
with amiga Piccasso4 gfx screens on one RTP6.1 and Ditto`ing to it
from another RTP6.1 machine bit that really screws up the Ditto
windows when trying to view UAE windows/screens/diplays/whatever-ya-
personally-can-em on the other machine and wonder if a VNC server/client
combination might work slightly better than a Ditto in this respect ?.

i`m not sure weather its a BAD bug in Xphoton crashing or Ditto as yet,
but i suspect Xphoton is the main problem, at least were cpu intensive
apps are concerned such as UAE-0.7.6 ( cant get UAE-8.17 to compile,
Xphoton not RTP Photon native).


Jay

Frank

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jay Hogg wrote:

Frank,

I asked a long time ago and got no response.

The approach that I originally looked at was actually to deal
with text consoles - aka ditto via VNC. It actually is pretty
easy but I got sidetracked while digging into the cfont format
since you have to actually pass graphics and never got back
into it.

Jay

Frank Liu wrote in message …

Has anybody ported VNC to QNX4?
I am about to do it but think it might be better to ask first.

Frank








\

my opinions are mine, only mine, solely mine, and they are not related
in any possible way to the institution(s) in which I study and work.

Miguel Simon
Research Engineer
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Oklahoma
http://www.amerobotics.ou.edu/
http://www.saic.com