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Inferno Contribution: vnc

PROJECT : VNC 3.3 client and server for Inferno
AUTHOR :  Marc Hufschmitt, marcas1@mime.univ-paris8.fr
FILE : README.txt

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** DESCRIPTION **

VNC (Virtual Network Computer) is a remote display system.  

This file comes with a set of Limbo sources (Inferno's programation
language) and a Makefile written for Linux. See the INSTALL.txt file
for information about building and running the VNC client/server.

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** INSTALLATION & BUILDING **

Refer to INSTALL.txt

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** LINKS **

Marc Hufschmitt Inferno's webpage
http://www.mime.univ-paris8.fr/~marcas1/inferno

VNC homepage
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

RFB protcol informations
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/protocol.html

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** KNOWN BUGS AND TO DO **

- Bugs in hextile encoding

- Try to implement the copy-rectangle method (though it's coded, there
  is no way to detect window moves from /dev/draw device ou Inferno
  wm). 

- add a password window in VNCclient.b 

- internationalize to english comments and menus.

- Enhance server encoding method selection

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** CHANGES **

15/02/2001 :

- README and INSTALL are added to the sources. 

- changing 'net' to 'tcp' in connecte() in VNCclient.b since Inferno
  v3 doesn't use tcp as net default.

13/09/1999 :

- The code is very imperfect but I have to finalize my report, so
let's freeze the code.

25/08/1999 :

- Add Hextile, RRE and coRRE encodings


15/06/1999 :
- Starting the VNC client and server for Inferno from scratch

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** UPDATES **

All suggestions are welcome, feel free to write to the author if you
have problems or if you add new feature.

marcas1@mime.up8.edu or mh@ai.up8.edu

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