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- From: paul@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: UK teletext server
- Message-ID: <C19Az0.EMx@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:04:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.153202.17519@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.104603.15572@dmu.ac.uk> <1788@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
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- In article <1788@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>, ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes:
- > mjh@dmu.ac.uk (Mike Howarth) writes:
- >
- > Actually this is exactly what I do on my server : call (0734) 34 00 55,
- > login as 'new' and you have access to teletex pages, even without needing
- > to register.
-
- That sounds great! I don't suppose you want to make them available over the
- Internet?
-
- > >Practically, though, although the idea is good, would it really work ?
- > >How many people have machines hooked-up that can actually take level 2
- > >teletext codes ? I know of very little software to handle this (excepting
- > >the Beeb computers) on PC's, VAX etc.
- >
- > You can easily filter out graphic characters and colors so a page will
- > display on any terminal.
-
- A student of mine started to do an X-based Teletext terminal emulator.
- Unfortunately, it was never really finished properly, but it isn't hard - if
- there was a good source of pages, it might be worth doing.
-
- Paul
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