Moin John,

03.01.96 19:03, you wrote a message to Andrew Grillet:

...
 JP> I could read CNN's Teletext without any problems. I'm only 
 JP> concerned BBC and ITV anyway. As for designing a font, I guess I 
 JP> need to use VioSetFont and VioGetFont, but I can find no examples 
 JP> of these anywhere...

There are a lot of examples on Vio* calls on Hobbes but, unfortunately,
only a compiled program which demonstrates VioSetFont.
It's in VFONT2.ZIP and copyrighted:

  Ralph B Smith Jr
  clySmic software
   P. O. Box 2271
 Empire State Plaza
  Albany, NY 12220
     76156,164

How about contacting him?


 AG>> If you want the real info on this, there's only one way: contact
 AG>> Philips - they make the decoder chipsets used by almost 
 AG>> everyone, and would do almost anything to help a teletext user 
 AG>> (provided it does not involve spending money).

 JP> I somehow suspect that Philips would have even less of a clue 
 JP> about VioSetFont than I have.

I expect that the character table format be identical to the one used in
your DOS program. So anyone who knows the DOS part could help...

Tschuesz,
	Vitus 

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