RE: Yes there is a free X server solution for Windows 95

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at InspirePharm dot Com>]

> I posted a similar message a couple of weeks ago, but nobody seemed to
> notice it.


I am sure list member noticed your previous message.  Beside B19 port
of vnc is known since long time.  The XGDI/XVNC had been moved to to
contrib directory because there is no more interest from other contributors
to add functionalties to the code.

My own interest is to have XFree86 or XFree86-like stable server from Win32.
That is where more of the efforts are centered and that what most
contributors,
like Peter Busch and myself are working.

Though VNC code is GPl'ed but any chages or subroutines from VNC cannot be
merged to XFree86 code base.  Why is that? Ask XFree86 Inc. not me please.

That is why we had to keep the XGDI code completely separate from Xfree86
source tree
so if our chages to XFree86 are accepted, we do not infect their code with
VNC
code.

Thanks for info

Suhaib



> a) Get  Valery Tulnikov's Cygwinb19 port of XVNC from
> ftp://ftp.engr.uark.edu/pub/cygwin32-1.0/x11r6/x11r6.3/xvnc-3%7e2.bz2
> This a fully functional port of the XVNC server to Windows 95. Read the
> documentation and modify the vncserver perl script to work on your
> machine. Add the -ac option to allow localhost clients to connect.
> You'll need cygwin19b.dll.
> b) Get the WinVNC viewer from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc. WinVNC
>
> is a separate program that is native to Windows 95 and is designed to
> work in tandem with XVNC. The VNC system has two parts: a VNC viewer
> communicating with a VNC server, normally on separate machines. If you
> run XVNC and WinVNC on the same machine, XVNC functions as an X server
> that clients can call, but it lacks the ability to display anything
> onscreen. It just passes messages to the WinVNC viewer, which has the
> native ability to display the X clients. XGDI/XVNC is an attempt to
> merge the client and server code into one program, but you can run the
> two programs separately. The separate WinVNC viewer is native to Windows
>
> 95, has full functionality, and works perfectly. The whole VNC system is
>
> under the GPL.
> c)Cygwin XVNC + WinVNC viewer = free X server for Windows 95.
>
> Allister.
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