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I figure some here will be interested in this.

http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/


"The main advantage of SharedAppVnc over traditional VNC is its ability
to share individual windows rather than the entire desktop. Users
typically have some applications which should remain private, such as
email, and some applications they would like to share. Normal VNC is
only able to share a user's entire desktop and thus does not lend itself
well to a combination of shared and private data."

So, for example, you could share out just a couple of windows, and you
can even rearrange these on the client, differently to how they are
presented on the server. Could just share out a media player, for example.

No Windows client or server yet, but planned.

-=rjh=- wrote:

> I figure some here will be interested in this.
>
> http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> "The main advantage of SharedAppVnc over traditional VNC is its ability
> to share individual windows rather than the entire desktop. Users
> typically have some applications which should remain private, such as
> email, and some applications they would like to share. Normal VNC is
> only able to share a user's entire desktop and thus does not lend itself
> well to a combination of shared and private data."
>
> So, for example, you could share out just a couple of windows, and you
> can even rearrange these on the client, differently to how they are
> presented on the server. Could just share out a media player, for example.
>
> No Windows client or server yet, but planned.

IBM's OS/2 included "Person 2 Person" and it did this over 10 years ago.

I was hosting Person 2 Person sessions on a 14.4k modem on the Net in
1994.....about the same time the WWW was invented.

You could share any one - or several - apps over the Internet/AN...or your
whole desktop.

"steve" <> wrote in message
news:...
> IBM's OS/2 included "Person 2 Person" and it did this over 10 years ago.
>
> I was hosting Person 2 Person sessions on a 14.4k modem on the Net in
> 1994.....about the same time the WWW was invented.
>
> You could share any one - or several - apps over the Internet/AN...or your
> whole desktop.
>
>
>

Pretty sure Microsoft Netmeeting does something similar as well.... VNC are
going backwards

XPD wrote:
> "steve" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>IBM's OS/2 included "Person 2 Person" and it did this over 10 years ago.
>>
>>I was hosting Person 2 Person sessions on a 14.4k modem on the Net in
>>1994.....about the same time the WWW was invented.
>>
>>You could share any one - or several - apps over the Internet/AN...or your
>>whole desktop.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Pretty sure Microsoft Netmeeting does something similar as well.... VNC are
> going backwards
>
>

I'm not familiar with Net Meeting, and I'm sure it is a fantastic
product, but I don't think its cross platform. I'm just guessing here.

steve wrote:
> -=rjh=- wrote:
>
>
>>I figure some here will be interested in this.
>>
>>http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>
>>"The main advantage of SharedAppVnc over traditional VNC is its ability
>>to share individual windows rather than the entire desktop. Users
>>typically have some applications which should remain private, such as
>>email, and some applications they would like to share. Normal VNC is
>>only able to share a user's entire desktop and thus does not lend itself
>>well to a combination of shared and private data."
>>
>>So, for example, you could share out just a couple of windows, and you
>>can even rearrange these on the client, differently to how they are
>>presented on the server. Could just share out a media player, for example.
>>
>>No Windows client or server yet, but planned.
>
>
> IBM's OS/2 included "Person 2 Person" and it did this over 10 years ago.

Which was great - if you could find anyone else running OS/2

>
> I was hosting Person 2 Person sessions on a 14.4k modem on the Net in
> 1994.....about the same time the WWW was invented.
>
> You could share any one - or several - apps over the Internet/AN...or your
> whole desktop.

I really liked OS/2, and was a huge fan of the WPS, even used the
Workplace Shell for Windows on my Windows systems. Some of the ways you
could extend the functionality of the WPS were quite powerful - thinking
of scheduling in particular.

IIRC OS/2 could also do neat things like share serial ports over the
network, which Windows can't do itself. And it really was a better DOS
than DOS.

I pretty much avoided Win95 entirely, and missed most of Win98, too.
And to some extent, that was due to your work promoting OS/2, Steve (and
Don, too).

-=rjh=- wrote:

> I'm not familiar with Net Meeting, and I'm sure it is a fantastic
> product, but I don't think its cross platform. I'm just guessing here.

It's not....

At least the OS/2 software P2P - LONG before filesharing 'p2p' - also had a
Windows version....though you had to pay for that one.

You could also fo a one-to- many display sharing.......so one person could
run a presentation on one system and share it with up to 8 other
simultaneously. View-only in that case.

-=rjh=- wrote:
> steve wrote:
>> -=rjh=- wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I figure some here will be interested in this.
>>>
>>> http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>
>>> "The main advantage of SharedAppVnc over traditional VNC is its
>>> ability to share individual windows rather than the entire desktop.
>>> Users typically have some applications which should remain private,
>>> such as email, and some applications they would like to share.
>>> Normal VNC is only able to share a user's entire desktop and thus does
>>> not lend
>>> itself well to a combination of shared and private data."
>>>
>>> So, for example, you could share out just a couple of windows, and
>>> you can even rearrange these on the client, differently to how they
>>> are presented on the server. Could just share out a media player,
>>> for example. No Windows client or server yet, but planned.
>>
>>
>> IBM's OS/2 included "Person 2 Person" and it did this over 10 years
>> ago.
>
> Which was great - if you could find anyone else running OS/2
>
>>
>> I was hosting Person 2 Person sessions on a 14.4k modem on the Net in
>> 1994.....about the same time the WWW was invented.
>>
>> You could share any one - or several - apps over the
>> Internet/AN...or your whole desktop.
>
> I really liked OS/2, and was a huge fan of the WPS, even used the
> Workplace Shell for Windows on my Windows systems. Some of the ways
> you could extend the functionality of the WPS were quite powerful -
> thinking of scheduling in particular.
>
> IIRC OS/2 could also do neat things like share serial ports over the
> network, which Windows can't do itself. And it really was a better DOS
> than DOS.
>
> I pretty much avoided Win95 entirely, and missed most of Win98, too.
> And to some extent, that was due to your work promoting OS/2, Steve
> (and Don, too).

I saw an ATM re-boot the other day and was surprised to see that it was
running OS/2.
--
~misfit~

-=rjh=- wrote:

> steve wrote:
>> -=rjh=- wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I figure some here will be interested in this.
>>>
>>>http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>
>>>"The main advantage of SharedAppVnc over traditional VNC is its ability
>>>to share individual windows rather than the entire desktop. Users
>>>typically have some applications which should remain private, such as
>>>email, and some applications they would like to share. Normal VNC is
>>>only able to share a user's entire desktop and thus does not lend itself
>>>well to a combination of shared and private data."
>>>
>>>So, for example, you could share out just a couple of windows, and you
>>>can even rearrange these on the client, differently to how they are
>>>presented on the server. Could just share out a media player, for
>>>example.
>>>
>>>No Windows client or server yet, but planned.
>>
>>
>> IBM's OS/2 included "Person 2 Person" and it did this over 10 years ago.
>
> Which was great - if you could find anyone else running OS/2

In 1993/4 that wasn't a problem. Win95 wasn't even out yet....and OS/2 did
get a lot of interest from people tired of Win 3.x.

>> I was hosting Person 2 Person sessions on a 14.4k modem on the Net in
>> 1994.....about the same time the WWW was invented.
>>
>> You could share any one - or several - apps over the Internet/AN...or
>> your whole desktop.
>
> I really liked OS/2, and was a huge fan of the WPS, even used the
> Workplace Shell for Windows on my Windows systems. Some of the ways you
> could extend the functionality of the WPS were quite powerful - thinking
> of scheduling in particular.

Yes....and still not matched in many ways by any other system.

> IIRC OS/2 could also do neat things like share serial ports over the
> network, which Windows can't do itself. And it really was a better DOS
> than DOS.
>
> I pretty much avoided Win95 entirely, and missed most of Win98, too.
> And to some extent, that was due to your work promoting OS/2, Steve (and
> Don, too).



Ta.....I was just trying to create and maintain a non-windows space for
people (like me) who wanted one.

Linux came along just in time as IBM got tired of pouring billions into OS/2
but being shut out of the market by Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.

Not at IBM was never anti-competitive in its day....

~misfit~ wrote:

> I saw an ATM re-boot the other day and was surprised to see that it was
> running OS/2.
> ~misfit~

Yes.....they did and many still do. Very stable and reliable at a time when
nothing from Microsoft was either.

-=rjh=- <> wrote in news:43c37f29$:

> "The main advantage of SharedAppVnc over traditional VNC is its ability
> to share individual windows rather than the entire desktop.

I am pretty sure UltraVNC has had this for at least 6 months to a yr now,
but have not tried the feature...

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Ciao, Dave