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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > =========================================== > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
