Date   : Sat, 30 May 1992 14:12:45 EST
From   : Andrew Alf Leahy <A.Leahy@...>
Subject: ftp'ing to shiraz??

> 4Gig of extra space, betweeen about 6 people!). Stuff can be ftp'd to
> shiraz.ohm.york.ac. This assumes everyone has ftp access - I probably  

I've tried ftp'ing to shiraz.ohm.york.ac.uk (144.32.136.36) and it
doesn't seem to work! Has anyone (outside of the UK) had any luck 
getting to this site?

> Some decent font software would be excelent. The graphics explosion  
> was not forseen in the original Acorn vision of things, and support  
> for fonts (particularly getting more stuff on screen at once,  
> proportionaly spaced, in windows etc) was overlooked.

Speaking of grafix, I've written a program which I run on our Unix box to
convert PPM images into BBC VDU code sequences...so I can display GIF's
(what else!) on my beeb at home over the modem (using Termulator). Takes
about a minute to display a Mode 2 screen, about 1 1/2 minutes for Mode 1
at 2400bps.

Question: Is there an Archie comms package which supports ye olde 8-bit
VDU codes?
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