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looking for videotex comms program for macintosh.

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From: Nicholas James HOWDEN
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00
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Hi all,

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.

I would really appreciate an email reply if you know anything about how to
handle this on the mac.

Thanks in advance, Nick.

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From: howden@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Nicholas James HOWDEN)
Subject: looking for videotex comms program for macintosh.
Date: 1995/05/23
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