Yes, Clarence. I have Compuserve and I use Arachne thru the Compuserve
Gateway.
One secret is that you *must* connect to Compuserve using 7E1, instead of 8N1.
Here are the appropriate parts from my Arachne.cfg
[dialer]
DialPage file:ppp_init.htm
Dialer @MINITERM.EXE>PPP.LOG
TerminalWindow @MINITERM.EXE
UseTerminal No
Port 2
Irq 3
Base Default
Mode 7E1 <---Critical for getting on Compuserve
Speed 38400
InitString AT&F&C1&D2S95=1
DialString ATDT
PhoneNumber 5710207 <---Change this to your local access number
Autologin Yes
WaitFor1
Response1 ^M
WaitFor2 ame:
Response2 CIS
WaitFor3 ID:
Response3 73527,1356/noint/go:pppconnect <---73527,1356 is my account name
Change to appropriate user name.
WaitFor4 ord:
Response4 \p
PPPusername 73527,1356 <---Same thing here!
PPPpassword yourpassword <---Put your password here
;Base values: Default|0x??? (eg. 0x3e8)
;Mode values: databits/parity/stopbits (eg. 8N1)
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address PPP
IP_Grab IP address set to
NameServer 149.174.211.5
AltNameServer 0.0.0.0 <---Duplicate here for 1.66? Clarence?
Gateway 0.0.0.0
AltGateway 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG
;IP_Address n.n.n.n ... fixed IP address
;IP_Address PPP ... for PPP.EXE and PPPD.EXE (get address from PPP.LOG)
;IP_Address BOOTP ... WatTcp attepmts to use BOOTP protocol
;IP_Address %enviro% ... Minuet style (enviroment variable, like %MYIP%)
;IP_Address WATTCP ... use ONLY values from TCPconfig (variable "my_ip")
;IP_Grab string ... prefix of IP address in PPP.LOG ("IP address set to")
;TCPconfig filename ... name of WatTcp configuration file (often WATTCP.CFG)
[mail]
SMTPserver mail.compuserve.com
POP3server mail.compuserve.com
POP3username 73527,1356
POP3password yourpassword
KeepOnServer No
eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--Note the "," in username is changed
to a "."
PersonalName Roger Turk
Organization Arachne Fan Club
TimeZone -0700
UseSignature Yes
SignatureFile SIGN.TXT
MailEncoding MIME
MailSortOrder DateSnt
NoHELO No
KillSent No
MailIdxTemplate idxfast.htp
ForwardString1 ----- Forwarded message begin -----
ForwardString2 ------ Forwarded message end ------
ReplyString On %s, %s wrote:
MyCharset US-ASCII
MailBodyEncoding 7bit
Hope this helps.
BTW, I use TAPCIS for e-mail, not insight. (TAPCIS is an offline
reader/composer specifically for Compuserve.)
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
Clarence Verge wrote:
. > Does anyone know the answer to this question that was sent to me ?
. > > One of our members has Compuserve and would like to use Arachne.
. > > Is this possible and if so how?
. > - Clarence Verge
