How do I access Beilstein from the dorm?
You can download the client software package to your computer. See Swain’s Beilstein and Gmelin Crossfire page. I ftp’d the Beilstein Crossfire folder onto my Mac but when I try to connect to beilstein.library.wisc.edu it doesn’t work. Here’s the beginning of the script I get on the computer. Can you tell me what’s wrong? Alx telnet (librover.doit.wisc.edu) [?7] [?1] (B =[?25h [m (B [H [2J 7 [1;24r 8 —————————————————————– [65DWELCOME TO MADCAT – THE COMPUTER CATALOG OF THE [45UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON LIBRARIES —————————CAT6.3————————————- The computer is going to the wrong telnet port. The way you can tell is that the Macintoshes display all the connection information up front. You are connecting to the library’s catalog instead of Beilstein. The solution is to copy over the crosslink preferences file from http://minerva.library.wisc.edu/ to your System/Preferences folder. When downloading from
