Re: INFO: Accessing GEnie from the Internet

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:
>     _
>    /-\s some of you know by now, it is possible to access GEnie via
>telnet.  Unfortunately, depending on the sites involved, this may be
>a 7-bit only connection.  I have been investigating this.  The results
>of my investigations are a series of commands that SHOULD initiate a
>full 8-bit connection to GEnie, but unfortunately I have been unable
>to get my system to make this connection successfully.  If others
>here who have been experimenting with accessing GEnie via telnet
>would help out by trying these commands from various other systems,
>it would be appreciated. 

 When I toggle binary and connect to hermes.merit.edu, nothing at
all that I type gets through to the other side.

>     _
>    |_
>    |_ven if going through hermes.merit.edu cannot provide a reliable
>8-bit data path to all users, it still provides access to everything
>on GEnie outside of file transfers.  So, we have provided a simple
>adaptation to CoPilot for logging in to GEnie from the Internet via
>telnetting to hermes.merit.edu.  All it requires is the replacement
>of one small script file.  The instructions for this should be
>available with the latest CoPilot (v2.5), but if you'd like I'll send
>the information to anyone who asks.

  I rewrite mine myself, and it works great :-)

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