Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: daemon@ig.UUCP Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: Accessing BIONET via the ARPANET Message-ID: <3960@ig.ig.com> Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 14:10:34 EST Article-I.D.: ig.3960 Posted: Fri Nov 6 14:10:34 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Nov-87 02:30:20 EST Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Lines: 32 From: roy%phri@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Smith) In article <3911@ig.ig.com> you write: > Let me emphasize once again that to use these two protocols one must > have access to a workstation, mini, or mainframe computer locally. To > the best of my knowledge, PC's, Mac's, etc., do not possess this kind > of networking capability (yet). Not 100% true. Using an AppleTalk/Ethernet bridge box made by Kinetics (FastPath, aka KFPS-n, n=[123]) and Telnet from NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Activities, or something like that; they are at U. Ill. Urbana-Champaign), you can run telnet from a Mac, and ftp as well (although, for some reason I havn't yet figured out, you can't initiate an ftp connection from the Mac; you have to telnet to the host you want and then run ftp back to the Mac). We use it all the time and love it. The telnet part provides a pretty decent vt-100 and Tek-401X emulation. Of course, just running telnet on the Mac on your desk isn't going to help you much unless you're linked into a larger network with IP connections to the outside world. To the best of my knowledge, you can't (yet) buy an IMP interface card for a slotted Mac. :-) ---------------- [Note: I'm still not sure of the mechanics of the Bionet/usenet gateway. Do messages get bi-directionally gatewayed (i.e. is the proper procedure simply to post to bionet.whatever, or is there a mailing-list moderator to whom I should send submissions)? At any rate, please forward the part above this note to the BBoard/newsgroup.] -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016