vnc suggestions

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 12:36:07PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> Quoting Alex Heylin (aheylin "at" cix.co.uk) from Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:34:56PM +0100:
> > I'd like to see some form of browser to enable you to select from a list of
> > VNC clients - preferably auto-generated (polled).
> 
> Dunno about polling -- I've never been thrilled by the network beating
> performed by AppleShare or XDMCP. It *would* be nice, on the Windows 
> and MacOS fronts, to be able to save sessions (similar to the way you
> can with BetterTelnet, for example), so that a click will bring up
> a connection to a particular host with particular settings.

I think he's really just looking to see some sort of real-time
directory browser of potential server targets.  This doesn't seem like
it ought to be too horribly difficult to build...

Isn't it possible, Rich, on your topic, to make a shortcut with switch
arguments to point to a particular machine?

Cheers,
-- jra
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