On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> A long while back I believe someone was successful using Arachne to sign on to
>Compuserve. Compuserve doesnt seem to want to hand out the IP address and also claim
>only there software will work.
> Any info will be appreciated.
I never had Arachne on compuserve, but I did have Linux connected.
They "limit" you to 44,100 minutes a month, which, if you do the
math, means you can pretty much stay on 24x7... and since I was
running a server at the time, you sure couldn't beat the price!
Here's my ppp-on-dialer for the compuserve account. It's not
exactly in the format you need, but it is a wait-for/send
format, so shouldn't be too tough to adapt. IIRC, it sometimes
took two or three tries to get on. I don't know if I just had
a temperamental local number or what. (The only reason I
canceled the cs account is that it'd be a long-distance call
from here :(
That was the "old" compuserve, btw. AFAIK, the "new" compuserve
is just a straight ppp connection without all the extra steps for
logging in.
---
#!/bin/sh
#
# This is part 2 of the ppp-on script. It will perform the connection
# protocol for the desired connection.
#
exec chat -v \
TIMEOUT 5 \
ABORT '\nBUSY\r' \
ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r' \
ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r' \
'' \rAT \
'OK-+++\c-OK' ATH0 \
TIMEOUT 35 \
OK ATW1 \
OK ATDT$TELEPHONE \
CONNECT '' \
:--: CIS \
:--: $ACCOUNT/NOINT/GO:PPPCONNECT \
:--: $PASSWORD \
'' ppp
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