HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: argh! leftover .D batched news files in my spuul
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:51:18 EST
Organization: Sonic Interzone, Atonal Hoodlum Subversion, TO Ont. 416-276-0552

eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:

> -> Its not that I'm receiving news and not running UUXQT right after. I am.
> -> I am doing uuxqt > uux.log tho, so I can grep for EXPIRES and see how
> -> often things get expired.
> 
> Why bother?  The "expiring ~/news/whatever" message is based on the
> /keep flag in you set in the ~/system/usenet file.  

I know, but how much do I want to keep? I dont want things flying
through here like alt.activism and can.politics with a keep of 100.
Thats barely a day in both groups. I want to see how often things pop up
in general perusals of output from UUXQT to see that can.politics comes
up alot.

Another way, which is easier actually, is just to compare how high the
highest message number in the group is from the stats output. Since I've
only recently been getting news, I can do this. can.politics is
something around 1600 and alt.slack is around 40, for about three or
four weeks. Obviously I set can.politics to about 400 and alt.slack to
about 50 or 75.

> If you want to get a handle on how old a given newsgroup gets based
> on a given /keep flag, just sort the news directory(ies) by date.

Cool hack. I'll check it. Stats also outputs this kind of thing, but
thats only most recent, not most often.

> No idea, why the .d files are hanging around though.  Are you getting
> errors logged in ~/admin/errors that roughly match up to the
> date/time stamp of the lonely .d files?

No, I get hardly any. They just appear, alone, looking around for a
friendly .X file that can hang off but the newsgroup is bare.
Strangeness. Hasnt happened in a little while tho, so I think it fixed
itself. ("Aye, laddie, these things dont just up and fix themselves."
"Aye they dont fix themselves!" -- "But, uh, do you have a 27-B-stroke-6?")

/kc

(oh, PS - Gerald, beauty flame. beauty.)

Ken Chasse - Sonic Interzone, Toronto Ont. * Inet: sizone!spooge@ee.ryerson.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: Priv-problem
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:49:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.153343.354@et.tudelft.nl> mvdl@et.tudelft.nl writes:
|How can I have a user have the priv's to read system-mail (with SYS) but let
|him be unable to shell to dos ?

Change sysmail() in mail.c to require a lower priv level.  If you don't have
sources, you can't do it; right now, sysmail() requires priv=9.

Maybe someone should comb through the sources and create a .DOC file of the
priv levels required for each limited command.

  Bill
From: morpheus@entropy.mcds.com (morpheus)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: News/mail reader
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 14:38:45 EST
Organization: the pickle factory at Langley, Virginia

dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell) writes:

> Also something that will *probably* be in 1.66, will be rejection
> of duplicate articles (making retrieval by Message-ID possible.) 
...
> Although I won't make fixed predictions, v1.66 will have a much faster
> delivery than v1.65 did.

Great! .. The data pump in my virtual-keg is on the fritz, else I'd send ya a
virtual-beer ;-)


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From: dalew@twiki.UUCP (Dale Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: FIDO gateway!!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:54:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: twiki.PcLeuB2w165w
Organization: Wafflemania Unlimited - Portland, OR USA

rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:

> dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale Weber) writes:
> 
> |   It isn't as complicated as you might think.  In fact, it's quite easy
> | with BinkleyTerm and not much more difficult with FrontDoor.  I actually
> | did get Waffle to run from FrontDoor for UUCP calls.
> 
> It's even less complicated than YOU think :-)

  Yes, but only if you run a single BBS package behind your mailer.  My
setup is a bit more complex than this.  I run a BBS switcher called Option
behind my mailer (either BT or FD).  From the switcher, users have four
different selections that run different software.  When a user leaves one
package, they go back to Option where they can select another until they
decide to say BYE and leave totally.

> Not necessary....

  Perhaps for your setup, but it definitely is necessary for mine.  ;-)

> I've been operating this way for some time - 2 years to be exact.  Of
> course, if the BBS is not Waffle but Remote Access or Fido or Opus or
> SearchLight or TBBS or.... (sigh)... then you made a mistake :-)

  How so?  I don't run *any* BBS package directly behind my mailer.  I
described *my* peculiar setup only.  Other's miliage will no doubt vary
from mine...  ;-)

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From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: clocks and CMOS
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 08:24:32 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)


I've noticed that over a few days, the system clock of my machine drifts
by quite a few minutes, yet if I reboot it, the CMOS time is accurate.

Is there a program around which will read the CMOS time into the system
periodically? I don't really want to have to reboot my machine once a
day or so just to make it keep reasonably accurate time.

(my system is a DFI 286 PC using AMI BIOS)



Alan B                           "Well, we were just laying there
Dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz        And this ghost of your other lover walked in
Dawghaus BBS +64 6 357-9245       And stood there.
Palmerston North, New Zealand     Made of thin air. Full of desire..

...Why these mountains? Why this sky? This long road? This empty room?"
                                                        - Laurie Anderson
From: gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Priv-problem
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 15:01:32 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Gordon's Pinetree * Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

mvdl@et.tudelft.nl writes:

> How can I have a user have the priv's to read system-mail (with SYS) but let
> him be unable to shell to dos ?

Why not set up the system alias so that he gets a copy too?

  --G

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From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: News/mail reader
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:46:22 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:

-> kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle) writes:
-> 
-> > For the time being, I've written a program that does just that. Given a
-> > root directory on the command line, the program recurses through the
-> > root and sub-directories and deletes duplicate articles based on the
-> > Message-ID header. As duplicates are removed, the filenames are
-> > resequenced in ascending order starting with the lowest original
-> > article. If anyone is interested, let me know.

-> I'm VERY interested. Depending on size, perhaps an encoded posting?

Me too.

Is the resequencing a configurable option?  

I can see folks missing articles after the numbers have been
compressed and/or having their join pointers reset because it is now
greater then the actual number of the messages.



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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: basil@azalea.cs.odu.edu (Keith Basil)
Subject: real Unix uid/gids??
Summary: waffle and real uid/gids
Keywords: uid gid waffle setuid
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:40:20 GMT

	I'm considering running Waffle under Unix and I've seen how
	Waffle sets up its account and such.  I want to know if any
	site or organization has setup Waffle to use the *real* unix
	uid/gid to map onto the waffle bbs user accounts?

	For example:

 mrmodem:KBU0QI5qikLQk:101:12:Mr. Modem User:/u/mrmodem:/u/waffle/bin/waffle

	Ideally this would load up waffle (setuid to waffle) and use the
	real uid of 101 (maps to bbs account "mrmodem").  Of course
	some modification to the source would be necessary.  Has anyone
	achieved this?

	This "hack" would achieve a few things, first it would allow
	relatively secure shell access, individual system level account
	logging, and a real 'who' list. ;)
From: grettir@pension.uucp (Grettir Asmundarson)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Wafmail choking on mailing list headers.
Keywords: wafmail mailing list date header
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:52:34 MST
Organization: The Pension Grillparzer +1 801 375 7679

Ever since I started gating a few mailing lists into local
newsgroups, I have been having troubles with WaflineMail v1.0.  It
has been freezing, giving me stack overflows, or even rebooting my
system whenever it hit specific posts.  It seems that quite a few
mail messages have "Date:" headers that WaflineMail doesn't like.

For instance, here are 2 "Date:" headers that WaflineMail didn't
like:

   Date: 12 Nov 92 16:50
   Date: 13-NOV-1992 06:22:06.53

Short of rewriting the offending code in WaflineMail (which I
couldn't do anyway) or getting every offending system to change its
mail header format, is there any way to solve this problem?


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From: psyline@psyline.nl (Theo Bogels)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: External database access through Waffle
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:28:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: PsyLine * Nijmegen * The Netherlands.

rad@railnet.nshore.ORG (Rick DeMattia) writes:

> I'm running DOS Waffle 1.65, and would like to implement a simplistic
> database lookup for BBS callers to access via Waffle.  I suppose
> if I were running Unix I could do something with the shell and
> its tools, but my question is - can someone recommend a small
> (must fit into c. 300k) non-terminal specific (no ANSI-PC emulations
> please, just tty text) database program that might integrate with
> DOS Waffle?  
> 
You could use RADplus (Remote Access Database) I guess, in a Door. I've 
got it, if you're interested, let me know.
**Theo

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From: root@rebell.rmt.sub.org (Gottfried Hamm)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle w/Windows 3.1
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 21:41:59 MEZ
Reply-To: root@rebell.rmt.sub.org (Gottfried Hamm)
Organization: rebell * +49 6249 8842 * D-6524 Guntersblum

jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:

> 
>      Hi folks! I've JUST finished installing WINDOWS 3.1 on my 386/16sx.
> (Please, NO flame-fests about WIN vs. UNIX vs. OS/2 vs. DOS-CLI). Any
> information, by mail please, about running Waffle 1.65 under Windows is
> GREATLY appreciated. Also, if any kind soul would send me a windows pif
> file for waffle, I'd appreciate it. I will gladly summarize, if anyone
> requests.  Thanx MUCHLY, as usual! :-)
> 

You can run waffle with the standard settings in the PIF-file. The only
thing to change I recommend is to run it as an icon. I configured my
Windows to start waffle at Windows startup. I'm also using the FOSSIL-
driver X00.SYS and there are no problems with Windows 3.1. You should
add to your static-file the line "multitask : windows" in that manner
it is possible to login locally while a user is in the box.

Greetimgs from Germany

Gottfried

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From: dawson@willard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: X.400 protocol in waffle ?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:16:58 EST
Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

> In article <qiVDuB2w165w@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
> |Waffle already supports mail to x.400 addresses.  For example, mail to
> |
> |        /S=dawson/G=w/C=us/O=bsan/ADMD=bellsouth/@sprint.com
> |
> |is delivered just as you'd expect it to be.
> 
> Unless your Internet connection is running UUCP software that interprets
> all arguments to uuxqt commands as pathnames, and claims that you're not
> allowed to access that file... *sigh*...
> 
>   Bill

Yes.  The only option you have at that point is to plead with your connection
to replace their semi-working software, or to find another connection.  My
Internet connection is running UUCP software that allows me to use that form
of addressing:  smail.  I'm not sure of the exact version, but I could get
that info on short notice.


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Net Access at age 14?
From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:00:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac

In article <1gqHuB3w165w@gizmonic.UUCP> csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas) writes:

>~ The K12 groups and netmail's a good place for kids to get their
>~ feet wet.  And these guys know that Waffle's aren't just for
>~ breakfast (well, neither is chocolate).

Actually, my ten-year-old grand-daughter Chelsea finds the k12 groups
boring. She prefers rec.equestrian, rec.running, and the rec.pets groups.
She rarely plays games, although she enjoys Wolfenstein for a few minutes
from time to time, and sees the computer (a 286/20 with a 125-meg disk and
faxmodem which I recently gave her, FrontDoor and Waffle installed and
operational...) as something with which she can learn. It certainly isn't a
'big deal' in her life.

>Only problem I see with kids on the net is that this is the time of
>their lives when they should be out gettin into trouble with the law
>and young girls (boys), and not spending all their free time praying
>to the Cathode Ray Temple. I mean, they've got the rest of their
>lives to fry their retinas. Are we developing a generation of youth
>that would rather play SuperNintendo Baseball than get dirty with the
>real thing?

Chelsea wouldn't spend any time on a game machine for the same reason she
doesn't like k12 - it's kid stuff :-)

>a place for everything, and everything in it's place. 

Yep - and the place of today's ten-year-old's is right here, on the net,
where they can learn the things school won't get around to for another
decade or so, like why a pet rat has scabby skin, or which pair of running
shoes is best. It seems the height of arrogance to deny them access because
of their age - frankly, I wonder if folks aren't simply afraid of these
kids?

-- 
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                      (Sssssssh.... Hard disk dying...)
From: mvdl@et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle -<-> FredGate
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:05:08 +0100
Organization: TU-Delft, dpt of Electrical Engineering

In article <vhc.722372330@abacus.hgs.se>, vhc@abacus.hgs.se (Mikael Larsson) writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to setup Waffle and Fredgate.. well, what I want is a gating
> program so the mail I receive to my own domain (vhc.se) is checked and
> looks at the to-lines. and say, if it says to mikael@vhc.se it should be
> sent as a netmail (fidonet) to him. and if he writes mail from his node
> number it should be converted to be from mikael@vhc.se...
> 
> I need help to get fredgate to work properly, or is there any other
> gating program for waffle <-> fidonet ?? 

There aer more programs that can do the job (like Ufgate) but Fredgate can do
the job OK... The format is more universal (Ufgate produces seperate .msg
files, where fredgate produces .pkt files....)

I strongly recommend to het your hands on version 18, because it has more docs
included! Then, get your hands one version 19J (later versions (up to M) seem
to be buggy.... They do not support any major extrea features either (I'm still
waiting for the 'sendertype' feature to be implemented 100% :-((   ) (Now you
have to map EACH point explicitely to let it produce a nice sender-adress
instead of a f*cked up fido-style adress.. I've written a util for myself to
facilitate this... (it tracks all writers in the pkt'files, then puts
fidomap0statements in fred's config-file for them (multi-node support), So I
don;t have to map them manually (which is quite comfortable with more than onde
node...). If there are any ppl interested in testing this, feel free to mail me
! I'll send you the program to be tested...))

Back to your problem: the comments in the config.fil will help, together with
the docs that go with version 18 (it's a complete mystery to me why they're not
included in version 19)... If you still have trouble, mail me your setup and
your vital info and I'll have a look at it....

Good Luck !

Michel.

> 
> MiL
> 
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From: Martin Welk <mw@pandora.mei.open.de>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: External database access through Waffle
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 18:24:46 MET
Reply-To: Martin Welk <mw@pandora.mei.open.de>
Organization: 1st OPeN site in Saxony, Germany

rad@railnet.nshore.ORG (Rick DeMattia) writes:

() I'm running DOS Waffle 1.65, and would like to implement a simplistic
() database lookup for BBS callers to access via Waffle.  I suppose
() if I were running Unix I could do something with the shell and
() its tools, but my question is - can someone recommend a small
() (must fit into c. 300k) non-terminal specific (no ANSI-PC emulations
() please, just tty text) database program that might integrate with
() DOS Waffle?
()
() I actually tried dBASEII but it does odd things to the screen
() and didn't seem to be dealing with simple tty output, event using
() Doorway as a mediator.
()
() Shareware's best, of course!

I printed out the documentations for DOORWAY today. I haven't
installed it yet (I prefered sleeping, sorry :-) ), but it's very
promising... Have a look at it.
This program seems to be able to run most programs via serial
ports. It converts the PC screen to VT100 sequences and enables
keyboard emulation.

Perhaps with this program you are able to run your favourite
database via modem ?

Should be available on halycon.com (I found it there).

Martin

P.S.: If anyone has installed it with Waffle, could you give a
small report about the good/bad experiences you made ? Thanks !
--
Martin Welk, O-8250 Meissen, Germany        mw@pandora.mei.open.de / mw@sax.de
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 And that means liberty." (Alphaville)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: WafHist, bang-paths to willard
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:01:43 GMT

dawson@willard.UUCP writes:

>    US domain, which gets routed through a VERY busy host (cowpas):
>        dawson@willard.waffle.atl.ga.us       <---- pretty much DEAD last
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

then get your MX record removed so internet sites don't send mail to
bounce city.


>How's this for a sig with bang-path info?
>-- 
>dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
>{gatech,emory}!willard!dawson
>Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

I can't speak for others, but it was certainly a religious experience
for me :-)

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
  I just upgraded to Quicken-for-Windows v2.0 and it's so darn great I'll
  never get rid of DOS...anybody got a Quicken-for-X11R5 ???
From: jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: complaints
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:46:10 GMT
Organization: The little node that could...

donh@shakala.rahul.net (Don Hackler) writes:

> BTW the c.b.w group is probably one the highest signal-to-noise
> ratio groups on the net.  The fact that someone is complaining 
OK, this sounds STUPID, but is a high s:n ratio good, or bad???

                                        Jeff

...From a tiny little node called Eternal!
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Expires and FAQ's
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 23:47:28 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

Of course, what I'd like to see is an expire that regardless of expire 
settings always left the most recent FAQ file ina newgroup, or if no 
FAQ file was present, the most recent message(s).

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