We're looking into some suitable technology to make it searchable again. The
system used at AT&T was not portable to the new home.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shing-Fat Fred Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:23 PM
Subject: #1:search mail list; #2:Color depth problem


> Hello,
>
> The mailing list was searchable when hosted by
> AT&T.  Could that capability be made available
> now?  (This is addressed more to the vanilla
> VNC forum, as I already asked about TightVNC).
>
> The problem I was searching for is that the
> viewer always seems establish an 8bpp
> connection, even though I specify "-depth 24".
>
> I'm using solaris 8, TightVNC 1.2.2 (still) for
> both viewer and server, on separate sun
> boxes.  I start the server with "-depth 24" and
> look at the log file, no information about color
> depth.  I then start the viewer with "-depth 24"
> and the viewer response says:
>
>      VNC server default format:
>        32 bits per pixel.
>        Most significant byte first in each pixel.
>        True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8
blue 0
>      Using default colormap and translating from BGR233.  Pixel format:
>        8 bits per pixel.
>        True colour: max red 7 green 7 blue 3, shift red 0 green 3 blue 6
>      Got 248 exact BGR233 colours out of 256
>
> New messages then get written to the  log file
> on the server side, confirming the 8bpp connection.
>
> I don't know why the viewer is ignoring my
> request for 24bpp, but it happens regardless of
> whether I use ssh (i.e. -VIA) or whether I use
> hextile encoding versus the default of "copyrect tight".
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Fred
> -------------------------------------------
> Fred Ma
> Department of Electronics
> Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
> 1125 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada     K1S 5B6
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