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From: daniel@sickkids.UUCP (Daniel Guerin )
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Subject: Access to US systems via DATAPAC
Message-ID: <20@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 12:03:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 17 12:03:15 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jul-86 18:30:45 EDT
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Organization: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
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I am trying to find out how systems in the US on networks such as
TELENET, TYMNET and UNINET can be accessed from DATAPAC in Canada.
Specifically, I am looking for answers to the following:
 - Can these systems be accessed via the public DATAPAC dialup
   access available in most Canadian cities?  Or do we have to obtain
   a network user ID?
 - If access can be done through the public ports, DATAPAC charges have to be
   handled by the remote host; does this has to be arranged by the host,
   or are the charges automatically passed on to the US network it is
   connected to?
 - If I have a TELENET or other host number, how do I construct the
   DATAPAC request?  I have seen many formats, and there does not seem
   to be any logic to it (e.g. sometimes spaces are required, sometimes
   it is not all numeric).  Is this documented?
 - There seem to be a way to alter some DATAPAC parameters, e.g. duplex,
   break handling, flow control etc... Is this documented somewhere?

In the past, I have tried to setup links to various systems and have always
failed.  Typically the host people don't know anything about DATAPAC and
refer you to the US network; they in turn refer you to the DATAPAC people, and
of course DATAPAC tells you to contact the host system people.  I think the
information on DATAPAC should come from the DATAPAC people, but repeated
phone calls to them yielded no results, and I can't even get general
information that would shine some light on the whole issue.

Any help would be much appreciated.  The name and number of a reliable
source of information at DATAPAC would be very useful.

Daniel Guerin, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Voice:	  +1 416 598 5725
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