vnc suggestions

[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]

Various interesting suggestions in this topic. 

File transfer is something that's come up several times before, so I've
added an FAQ entry for it:


Q. Could you do file transfer by drag & drop between the two ends?

It's certainly possible, but we aren't going to do it.  File transfer
seems simple, but is actually rather complicated to do in a cross
platform way.  Some examples: How do you map filenames between
platforms with wildly different naming conventions? How do you cope
with running out of disk space?  What about permissions?  How do you
do it on platforms which don't have a concept of drag and drop? Can you
interrupt the transfer if it's taking too long? Can you restart it if it
gets interrupted?

Since there are a very large number of perfectly good systems out
there for transferring files over IP, we aren't planning to
incorporate it in VNC.  It would probably more than double the size of
the code, and would introduce all sorts of issues that we, quite
frankly, aren't interested in! So use the standard file transfer built
into Windows, or use FTP, or netcat, or the web, or rcp, or ssh, or...


Quentin

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Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser
AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
http://www.uk.research.att.com/~qsf

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