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From: krol@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Krol)
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Subject: PRESTEL/Videotex Protocol Inquiry
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Date: 19 Feb 91 20:01:42 GMT
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Does anyone out there know what the PRESTEL videotex protocol looks
like internally?  Is it documented? In fact what I really need to know
is if a server presents all textual data in this format how hard would
it be to convert it back to ascii?  I don't know why the service is
provided in this protocol to begin with put there certainly aren't any
graphics in what I would be dealing with.