Minor Bug Report

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Aaron DiLapi wrote:

> Just wanted to report that using the VNC Viewer in Windows NT 4 Workstation SP3
> going to a Win95 OSR2 machine I can't seem to send shift or caps lock to the
> server end, however, the client running on the Win95 machine accessing the NT
> machine as server can pass shift and caps lock.
> 
> So, its either a bug in the viewer under NT, or a bug in the server under Win95

I believe that this is a sort of 'feature' in Windows 95, which I'll fix
in the next version - In Windows NT, it's possible to send Shift, Control
and Alt key events which distinguish between the left and right keys.
However, rather than just converting these to undistinguishable Shift,
Control and Alt events, Windows 95 actually does nothing with them.  This
will be fixed in the next (post Revision 13) version of WinVNC!

> Oh, and I just wanted to say I think its great that the Cntrl-Alt-Del problem is
> on the way to being solved, wonderful news!

:)  Yes indeed.  I still have to check the compatibility issue but it
certainly works fine on NT 4.0, so we're hopeful.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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