In <7818 at gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> steffen at mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (David Steffen) writes:
*RNIC> A Cynic's Review of WAIS
Now I don't think your article was cynical at all. It had a
very positive feel to is. I liked it enough to copy it into
alt.wais
*RNIC>"Connection Failed - Unable to Access Remote Database"
*RNIC> -or-
*RNIC>"Configuration Error - Unable to Access Remote Database"
*RNIC>Turns out, my difficulties were aggravated by:
*RNIC>2) Flakey network connections!
*RNIC> Decided to spend a Saturday afternoon messing with WAIS
*RNIC>before trashing it. After messing with things, SUCCESS!
*RNIC>Went home. Came in Monday and:
*RNIC>"Connection Failed - Unable to Access Remote Database"
*RNIC>"Configuration Error - Unable to Access Remote Database"
Monday is a bad day for trying to get into Genbank. If
I remember correctly either Eliot or Dave said that the
sources would not be available on Mondays. The other thing
is that the CM machine is only open for queries from 9 to 9
EST... this means that Europeans can't get in during our
normal working day but have to wait till after our working
day is over.
*RNIC>CONTACT: Mac TCP ...
*RNIC> Address: nic.funet.fi
*RNIC> Port: 210
Why not make some new sources. Fill in the info as above
and for database name you could try.
*RNIC>DATABASE: biobit
toc
biodocs
enzyme
gbsoftware
emblsoft
limb
compalgo
Rob " there are none so zealous as the newly converted " Harper
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Rob Harper / E-mail: Harper at convex.csc.fi
Finnish State Computer Centre / Molbio/software: Harper at nic.funet.fi
P.O. Box 40, SF-02101 Espoo / Telephone: +358 0 457 2076
Finland / Fax: +358 0 457 2302
