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- From: robin@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Rob Rainton)
- Subject: Re: UK teletext server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.142443.29334@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1993Jan20.104603.15572@dmu.ac.uk> <1788@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> <C19Az0.EMx@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Distribution: uk
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:24:43 GMT
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- In article <C19Az0.EMx@dcs.ed.ac.uk> paul@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Anderson) writes:
- >In article <1788@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>, ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard)
- >writes:
- >>
- >> 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.
- >
-
- I'm writing an X based teletext system here, I've done this by impelmenting an
- X toolkit widget which takes a pointer to a teletext page class as one of it's
- resources.
-
- The class decodes pages and decides which characters go where, what the
- colours are, etc. - the widget just renders them in a window. You could
- interogate the class and output any ascii characters you find onto a normal
- terminal if you wanted.
-
- My biggest problem is where to get pages from as well. At the moment the only
- ones I have were captured by a friend of mine on an amiga with a teletext
- adapter.
-
- Rob.
-