Xref: utzoo comp.misc:11438 comp.org.eff.talk:1460 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!spdcc!russell From: russell@spdcc.COM (Tim Russell) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox... Message-ID: <6458@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Date: 13 Feb 91 04:01:23 GMT References: <1991Feb11.061828.20234@looking.on.ca> <44013@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Feb12.230101.17787@cbnewsh.att.com> Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 23 wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes: >I've seen Prodigy's stupid small screens, but does your contract >with them REQUIRE you to use their terminal emulator? > >Could some enterprising hacker write an interface that at least >gives you a human-readable screen and text upload/download >using their protocols, or do they forbid that because you might turn >off the advertising? It's been done. Look in on Simtel. It's called PRODHP13.ZIP, and makes Prodigy much more bearable to work with. It allows upload of messages, a signature file, "printing" to a disk file, gets rid of all those formfeeds in the printing, etc. Evidently Prodigy doesn't mind it, because they allow discussion about it on the "About Prodigy" board. I was really surprised at that, since the software allows the user to print to a file, thus circumventing their selective enabling of printing. -- ____ \TR/ Tim Russell \/ russell@ursa-major.spdcc.com