Accessing more than one computer

[Robin Hill]

On Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 02:04:51PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:

> I could be mistaken, but I thought if you were entering a *port* number you 
> needed to use a DOUBLE-colon, eg ::5901, whereas if you were specifying 
> just a "screen" number, you could do :1, or :2 (for 5902, etc.) Or was this 
> one of the things tweaked in more recent releases?
> 
A double colon forces a port, otherwise the client assumes that anything
over 100 is a port, and anything under is a screen number.

Cheers,
    Robin
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