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Source: Fernando Cassia (cassiaf@netscape.net)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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Those OS/2 users on a multi-platform network who need to access and 
run Win32, Unix or Mac applications from OS/2 now have a 100% FREE, 
open solution: VNC developed by Oracle at the ORL laboratory 
in the U.K., and released with full source code under the GNU General 
Public License.

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is a FREE, multi-platform 
remote display system which allows you to view a computing 
'desktop' 
environment from anywhere on a TCP/IP network (your local lan, an 
intranet, or even the global Internet), and from a wide variety of 
machine architectures. 

What makes VNC different from other commercial solutions is:

-It is small and simple. The Win32 viewer, for example, is about 150K 
in size and can be run directly from a floppy. No installation 
needed. 

-It is truly platform-independent. A desktop running on a Linux or 
Windows 95 machine may be displayed on an OS/2 PC. Or a Solaris 
machine. Or any number of other architectures. There is also a 
Java viewer.

-It is sharable. One desktop can be displayed and used by several 
viewers at once.

VNC Servers and clients for win32, unix and macintosh have been available 
for some time from the official VNC homepage at 

http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/

The news is that an OS/2 user from Japan has ported the VNC client to 
OS/2 PM. Download it from the VNC Viewer for OS/2 PM homepage at

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/vnc-pm/index.html

Current version is third alpha (alpha 0.03) of VNC viewer for PM. 

I encourage everyone to try this, and also those brave enough to 
attempt to port the VNC _server_ to OS/2 too. (Which would give us 
a _free_ remote control solution of an os/2 desktop from another 
os/2 system, and also of OS/2 from Mac/Win32/Unix).

The author of this os/2 port is Akira Hatakeyama from Japan and 
reacheable at akira@sra.co.jp

Last note: A really good introduction to VNC in RealVideo format is 
available at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/videos.html
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