ANNOUNCE: A VNC viewer for GNOME

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I have got a mostly working VNC (virtual network computing) viewer for
GNOME.  It currently supports enough of the VNC protocol to be useful (all
pixel encodings except hextile).

The authentication code in the package is a modified version of the DES
code in samba (ie. it is not a full implementation, and is only useful for
hashing passwords for authentication), so make up your own mind about
whether it is legal in your country.

It currently doesn't support clipboard transfers and hextile encoding, but
does allow you to set the display to a bit depth not matching your visual
and make it display correctly (eg displaying 16bit from a 16bit connection
to a 24bit visual), so you can reduce the bandwidth usage of the viewer
without going all the way down to 8bit.

You can get gnome-vnc-viewer from
  ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/gnome/gnome-vnc-0.1.tar.gz

James Henstridge.

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