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Re: X server for WinNT



VNC uses some kind of protocol they invented (the VNC protocol??).
It does not use the standard X protocol or any subset/superset of it.


Regards,
Yannai.

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Amos Shapira wrote:
> 
> On Mon, February 1 1999, Aviram Jenik <aviram@jenik.com> wrote:
> |You are right, of course. (Damn X terminology.. I hate it when terminology is
> |the
> |opposite from common sense)
> 
> ??  What services does xterm (for instance) provide to the Xserver?
> Who connects to whom?  Sounds perfectly sensible to me.
> 
> Even according to the shallow buzz-word-level of "Client/Server" the X
> server is indeed a server which waits for connections and provides
> (display and input) services according to requests from X clients.
> 
> |> it's a great thing, for what it does, but it's NOT
> |> an X server...
> |
> |It's exactly an X server. That *is* what it does.
> 
> I don't remember - does it accept the X protocol as described in
> Volume 0?  If so then you are right in that regard.  But I suspect the
> network protocol used by it (i.e. between the VNC server and the VNC
> client which actually display the image on the screen) is more
> primitive and specific to VNC in order to be independent of X11.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Amos
> 
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