Re: looking for videotex comms program for macintosh.

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From: Jacques Caron
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 00:00

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In article <9514311.22696@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, howden@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU
(Nicholas James HOWDEN) wrote:

>I am accessing a videotex service via modem from my mac, and Zterm doesn't
>handle it very well. Does anyone know of a comms program (preferably public
>domain or shareware, but will buy if necessary) which handles videotex on the
>mac?
>
>I had never heard of videotex before now, but I think it has some strange
>characters which allow the display of blocks of colour and other crude video
>effects. Without the knowledge that the incoming data is videotex, Zterm (and
>every other terminal program I've tried) simply displays a lot of garbage
>along with the text, and it gets all the formatting wrong.

Depends on the kind of videotex service, but if it's CEPT 2 (the french
one), you can get minitel/mac on any info-mac mirror in
comm/bbs/minitel.hqx.

There are also a couple of CTB tools for it.

Hope that helps,

Jacques.

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From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
Subject: Re: looking for videotex comms program for macintosh.
Date: 1995/05/29
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