looking for videotex comms program for macintosh.

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2 total messages Started by Nicholas James HOWDEN Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00

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Author: 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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Re: looking for videotex comms program for macintosh.

#40

Author: 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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