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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:34:39 -0300 (ADT) From: Edward Dyer <aa146@chebucto.ns.ca> Hi John, It's been years since I've played with colour on CCN, (its been 10 years since I've had access to a colour terminal :-) but in principle a colour terminal emulator on a computer should work as well. In other words, you need a terminal program on your computer that supports colour (I use Putty.) Then you need to have it set to a terminal emulation that supports colour. I know VT240 is a 4-colour terminal, and I think ANSI supports better colour (16 colour?), but other than that I'm not sure, but I know there are better. Next, the terminal emulation on each step of the way needs to be set to colour as well (if any system is set to a monochrome terminal, such as a vt100, that's all it will pass on) so you need to have your terminal emulation on CCN set to a colour terminal. If you are then telnetting out, the next system also needs to be told you are using a colour terminal, etc. That's the theory, but I don't know if anyone has ever done it successfully. -- I have heard the line from the TELCO about they don't support using phone lines for dialup, but they sell their own dialup service, so they are pulling your leg. On the other hand, the human ear can stand a lot more noise than a 56 K dialup can handle, it really has to be a VERY good line to get the maximum speed. Hope this helps, but it still leaves it as an exercise for you to figure out which is the best terminal combination for your purpose. Ed On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, ap721@chebucto.ns.ca wrote: > Note that I am talking about _telnet_ to videocam, and using their browser > there. Until they reconfigured their site, it worked. I can telnet to > some bbs game sites from Chebucto and get colour. I can give you some > references if you want. The sites have colour, ascii images and in a few > cases motion- as does Chebucto in some trivial cases (the _busy_) icon in > e-mail, etc.) > > BTW I am getting a lot of busy icons, and am frequently knocked off > Chebucto. Could be a dirty line, but phone people say a) not dirty, b) > they won't help me with connection to Chebucto problems. > > John > > > > > Hi John, > >> I've never been able to get colour to work on CCN regardless of what >> settings we used. I've passed your query on to Tech. >> >> CCN Help >> >> ----------- >> >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, John Dennis Elliott wrote: >> >>> When I used to connect to my other lynx/links provider - videocam.net.au, >>> I was able to use both browsers in colour. Their tech person tells me (in >>> tech language I did not follow), that he was able to legally mimic my >>> connections through Chebucto and got colour in his case when accessing his >>> site. I telnet to "shell.vcsweb.com" I can still get colour from chebucto >>> if I telnet select gameboards (bbs). sorry I don't know the tech language, >>> but the vcsweb person tells me that a setting needs to be reset on >>> chebucto's end. >> >> > >
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