Hi, Brenton.

BV> PE> The Commonwealth Bank apparently allows you to ring them via modem if
BV> PE> you can emulate video text, or something like that.  Does anyone know
BV> PE> the correct terminology (whatever Viatel used I think), and does anyone
BV> PE> know of an emulation program that will do this for me?  I'm asking this
BV> PE> on behalf of someone else.  BFN.
BV> FM> Yeah, it's not hard, you just have to keep flipping the modem between
BV> FM> 1200 and 75 for receive and send. I even had a couple of programs
BV> FM> somewhere which do so. Very basic. At least one was even written in C,
BV> FM> from memory. They're buried deep so let me know if you want me to dig
BV> it
BV> FM> out.

BV> It's even easier when your modem supports 1200 Baud with a 75 baud
BV> back-channel as a standard ( CCITT V.23) protocol. Now if you had a
BV> _real_ modem like a USR Sportster, you'd be right :)

As it happens I do have a 1200/75 modem. It also runs 300. :-)

BV> Mind you, decoding and encoding all that Viatel ( NALPS ) stuff is
BV> another matter altogether. From memory the _old_ NETCOM program had
BV> Viatel support. If it didn't I _know_ that the Gateway program from
BV> Cybersoft (which was the full retail product that the Netcom program
BV> was cut from) did have full Viatel support. If Paul was to call
BV> Cybersoft, I'm sure that they would supply a copy of it today as
BV> they still make quite a bit of money out of it. It is cheap too at
BV> about $75 bucks.

Paul may find that the Comm bank thing doesn't use graphics anyway. The
Westpac one didn't, when I was there anyway. You'd get the same screen
on your 3270 in-house as you got from the PC at home.

Regards, FIM.

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