Re: BIOMOO

Terence Walsh (t.walsh@qut.edu.au)
Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:22:21 +1000

On 28 Jan, Bill Chestnut (och69@bwco.com) wrote

> I am having a very difficult time trying to connect to biomoo. I have
>tried to telnet to bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888 but get 'unknown host'.
>I have tried going in through Mosaic, but either mosaic locks up or when
>trying to go in through the 'authentication system' I am not allowed in
>(because I am not yet registered as a character?).

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>there is no manual and many comments assume certain knowledge I do
>not have.

I have had this and other problems, but found the instructions listed by
Eric Mercer most helpful. try

www.cco.caltech.edu/mercer/htmls/ConnectingByWeb.html

The only bit that wasn't clear is that you need to log on through the text
box (telnet) and get your temporary password ("@webpass"), and then type
this into the search box. It worked for me. Good luck - CU at BioMOO.

Terry

email t.walsh@qut.edu.au