HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Expire old newsbatches not mail
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 12:06:53 CST
Organization: Network XXIII - +1 608 222 9253

jos@swamp.waterland.wlink.nl (Jos van der Meer) writes:

| To keep the harddisk from filling up, I need a program which deletes old
| newsbatches when they are not collected by sites, but keeps the mail for thos
| sites.
| I remember someone mentioning a program which could achieve this, but I
| forgot the name. The halcyon.com index could not give me a clue either.
| Anyone ?

I have such a beast.... and will probably release it soon.

Any other UUCLEAN*.* which I've released SHOULD BE AVOIDED.... nasty bugs
releated to not switching drives before doing the Grim Reaper bit.

Also, the new UUCLEAN will also come with a new program I wrote, which
will bounce a message back to senders of failed EMail....  So now people
will get a message "This message could not be delivered in X days" ...

The UUCLEAN at halcyon (if it's there) is NOT the right one... the new
version should be v1.2, no less.  DESTROY THE OTHERS!  Thanks...


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From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: ZipNews Door for Waffle in BETA Release
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:11:23 PST
Organization: Muth Valley Bell  (619/390-SLIC BBS; V32bis)

jkilday@nlbbs.UUCP (Jack Kilday) writes:

> To request ZNEWS093.ZIP from our file-server DO NOT include the
> drive spec.  Address e-mail to file-server@nlbbs.rn.com with the
> following text:
> get \temp\znews093.zip

> The Northern Lights BBS    |                     -=-
> 207-761-4782 (v.32bis/HST) | 4-Nodes, 700 Megs * Internet: UUCP, FTP, Telnet


Does Northern Lights BBS support anonymous uucp connections?
Your sig suggests that it may.

Since getting a V32bis modem, I've discovered that I now prefer
(normally) to snarf files/pass mail via anonymous uucp or default
uucp connections.  Waffle sysops should give it some thought.

Don't have the delay in delivery of the files nor the pasting the
uuencoded pieces together then decoding.  And long distance is
surprizingly cheap at the 60% off rate for uucp due to the
automatated login/tranfer sequences.

I'm currently playing with all the 5 digit long distance service
company codes to try to find the cheapest rates for various
locations around the country.  Mostly using remote.halcyon's
anonymous connection as a base.  I'll list the findings here as I
get my monthly telco bills.

--
  Mike, San Diego, CA USA     Public Key Available
  mikey@slic.cts.com    GEnie: SLIC    Ham: WB6WUI
From: August.Abolins%f115.n514.z17@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Offline Readers
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:38:02 GMT


      <> On 01-21-93, at approximately 8:16am,
      <> Russell Schulz was discombobulated,
      <> and said... (to All)

RS>From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
RS><930121.091617.3P3.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>

RS>I think (and others have said it as well) that a dirt-simple (well,
ok, maybe to this level is impossible) waffle-installer-thingie would
help the users who _can_ install a QWK reader, and would _like_ to have
full Usenet non-munging capabilities, but don't feel like installing
waffle.

RS>and yes, this in itself would only help the ms-dog users.  and only
those who have the noggin-filler.  but, we should be able to get the
AMOUNT of noggin-filler required lower and lower... but not too low. :-)

Do you Unix-folk have to resort to using terms like ms-dog, messy-dos,
and attacking DOS at every occassion (even if it doesn't pertain to the
topics you are replying to?)

For those of you who have *nix running on *86 family of computers, why
not respect the forces that brought you those inexpensive computing
machines to your homes?  Of course you would have much prefered to have
expensive VAX, HP, Sun, Microvax, etc... *nix systems, RIGHT?!

I am often surprised to to hear *unix people respect and uphold the
virtues of Vi even though it is over 25years old and outdated compared
to modern editors for *nix.   Why not atleast acknowledge that DOS does
a good job for a significant portion of the PC user market.

 * DeLuxe2 1.25 #10137 * --------------------[ abolins@visavis.cam.org ]---

 * Origin: VIS-a-VIS Communications [Ont+Que] (17:514/115.0)
From: jkilday@nlbbs.UUCP (Jack Kilday)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: ZipNews Door for Waffle in BETA Release
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:41:29 EDT
Distribution: world               
Organization: The Northern Lights BBS, Portland, ME  * 207-761-4782 *

mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:

> I'm not able to get past the following screen and need a little
> help.  I sure like the idea of zipping a newsgroup for off-line
> reading.
>
> Cannot open user's output text file.
>
>  0:35  E:\BIN>zn root local     (this is my invocation from the shell)

The key cause of this problem is that the ZN.CFG "temporary" parm contains
a pathname that does not exist.  And that can result from either of the
following:

 - You've specified something like d:\work%node%   and never set the
   NODE environment variable (so the system looks for d:\work, which may
   not exist), OR
 - You've never created the directory that has been correctly named.  For
   example: d:\work1, d:\work2, etc., one for each BBS node, have not been
   created although properly named and the NODE environment variables have
   been set.

(The next release will explicitly display the pathnames/filenames that
cannot be found/created.  Such would provide better "clues" as to the setup
problem.)

> Anyone else trying to use ZIPNEWS yet?

I certainly hope so.  Otherwise, I could be wasting my time working on the
companion ZipNews Reader/Mailer.  :)

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The Northern Lights BBS    |                     -=-
207-761-4782 (v.32bis/HST) | 4-Nodes, 700 Megs * Internet: UUCP, FTP, Telnet
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: dawson@hobbes.bsan.bls.com (Willard Dawson)
Subject: Re: Old XT + Waffle + Fossil + V.32bis = ?
Organization: BellSouth Systems Integration
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:19:02 GMT

I don't really want to be pedantic, but...

jeff@amikoj.rn.com (Jeff Kunce) writes:

>*THANK YOU* to all who responded to my questions about waffle &
>V.32bis. The suggestions were very edifying. It was suprising to 
>see the wide range of throughput that folks are getting, and also the 
>wide range of (sometimes conflicting) "recipes" for increasing one's 
>speed. After trying numerous combinations, here is what works for me:
>
>DESCRIPTION OF MY SYSTEM:
>System:   GoldStar 10mHz XT clone
>Software: Waffle 1.65, BNU Fossil driver
>Modem:    Zoom fax/Modem VFP V.32bis (internal, 16550 UART)
>"Dialers" Entry:  ...  38400    "" AT&F OK ATL1&C1&D2%M0&Q6S95=44 ...
>"Static: stuff:  uu.locked:38400 uu.driver:fossil
>BNU fossil flags: /F /L:1=38400
>uucp protocol: "g", 7 windows  (mine does this w/ default settings)
>
>EXPLANATION OF MODEM SETTINGS:
>   - V.32bis "on"  (Mine is set to connect at highest possible speed)
>   - compression "off" (no V.42, no MNP :  %M0 on my modem)
>   - correction "off" (no V.42.bis, no MNP5 : &Q6 on my modem)

    v.42 is "correction"
    v.42bis is "compression"

    Why do you not want v.42 correction, or MNP correction?

My own preference is v.42+v.42bis.  For windows of 7, that gives me the
best throughput, typically MNP4+300 cps over 14.4 connections.  Your
milage may vary, of course.
--
 Willard Dawson, BellSouth Advanced Networks, 1100 Johnson Ferry Road, Ste. 880
 Atlanta, GA  30342, Voice: +1 404 303 2343, UUCP: gatech!vdbsan!hobbes!dawson
 Internet -> X.400:  /G=W/S=DAWSON/O=BSAN/ADMD=BELLSOUTH/C=US/@sprint.com
 Percent hack:  dawson%vdbsan@gatech.edu   ::    Standard disclaimer applies.
From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 12:17:36 CST
Organization: Network XXIII - +1 608 222 9253

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

| william@cithara.login.qc.ca (William Ross) writes:
| 
| > Is there a way for Waffle to take the phone offhook when running
| > selected scheduled events, like compacting harddrives, generating stats,
| > basic housework.
| Well, DOS accomodates for it. In the batch file you are calling, add the
| following lines:
| 
| ECHO ATH1 > COM2
| [contents of batch file to do work]
| ECHO ATH0 > COM2

On my system - 386SX-16, Waffle 1.65, DesqView, Gateway Telepath 9600
v32bis, BNU 1.70 (Thanks Dave!) ECHO ATH0 > COM1 locks the machine up.
So does X00 by the way.  When I switched to BNU (1.70!!) it started
working.  Newer versions of BNU failed.

So now I use FECHO ... (thanks Dave!)


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: bakker@cs.rulimburg.nl (Harm Bakker)
Subject: Where is HellDiver??
Organization: University of Limburg, Maastricht
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:04:55 GMT


As I understand it, HellDiver is a news reader under Windows.
Q: Is it public domain, or commercial.
Where can I get it?

Thanks in advance for any info,

--
Harm Bakker                                            bakker@cs.rulimburg.nl
Dept. of Computer Science, Fac. of General Sciences
State University of Limburg
P.O. Box 616   6200 MD  Maastricht   Netherlands
From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Mail encryption programm for WAFFLE?
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:08:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: slic.TcP1XB3w165w
Organization: Muth Valley Bell  (619/390-SLIC BBS; V32bis)

nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl (Felipe Fodriquez) writes:

> A sysop on our UUCP network has written a small rmail frontend that
> automatically encypts mail before it feeds it to rmail. It uses PGP and
> it's very user-friendly. The name of the program is PgpIt. You only have
> to the public-key id on the first line, like '%nonsenso@utopia'. If it
> doesn't find a public-key ID, it'll just mail the message unencrypted.
> The only problem is that messages are still stored as temp-files
> etcetera. I use wipefile to get around this problem.
> I have tested this utility for some time and i'm very happy with it.

Another reason to make use of a RAMDRIVE.

> For more information about PgpIt, please consult with:
> garfield@maas-neotek.hacktic.nl

As I am now using PGP, I shall contact garfield and post any
responses.  Thanks for the tip.

--
  Mike, San Diego, CA USA     Public Key Available
  mikey@slic.cts.com    GEnie: SLIC    Ham: WB6WUI
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Subject: Re: ZipNews Door for Waffle in BETA Release
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:42:28 GMT

In article <yP8yXB2w165w@slic.cts.com> mikey@slic.cts.com writes:
>
>I'm not able to get past the following screen and need a little
>help.  I sure like the idea of zipping a newsgroup for off-line
>reading.
>
>Cannot open user's output text file.
>
> 0:35  E:\BIN>zn root local     (this is my invocation from the shell)

Did you set the extra enviroment commands?  Is there a User directory for
root with a join file?  (probably not the last two...but>>>) Is there
a temporary directory in the location where the pointer points?  If 
you left the "J:\temp" intact, then you had better have a drive "J" 
(either RAM disk or real disk).

One problem I found with this program, is that while most of the 
scan pointers are reset to the last message downloaded, a few groups have
their pointers reset back to the first message that exists in the group.
I've tried to isolate out the problem, and the closet I can fiqure is that
in the groups that this happens, the ones and tens digits of the highest
message is lower than the ones and tens digits of the lowest message....

IE:  479-556   would reset the pointers to 479
but  520-590   would reset to 590

?????


Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:15:28 GMT

In article <FmmPXB1w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
|Can't you just TELL your users that at certain (or even
|random) times you take the system down for various housekeeping tasks and
|that the phone won't answer during those times?  Or is it considered horse-
|shit to reveal such secrets to users?

It's no secret to hogbbs users that the BBS will poll for netnews and
then process it at random times.  [Well, pseudo-random; at two set
times and then whenever someone posts or sends email...]  However, it's
also no secret that hogbbs's hardware is getting awfully old, and is
subject to random lockups, often at the Awaiting Call...

If hogbbs didn't answer the phone, would you bother to keep trying?
Maybe it's processing a couple of megs of news and will be coming back
online in 10 minutes.  Maybe it's locked and will come back online when
I come home and notice it.

If I make the phone busy while it's processing, then it's almost a
certainty that if it doesn't answer the phone, it's crashed, and you
shouldn't bother attack-dialing.

  Bill
From: August.Abolins%f115.n514.z17@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Scheduled Events That Tak
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:37:01 GMT


      <> On 01-21-93, at approximately 8:57pm,
      <> Steve Frampton was discombobulated,
      <> and said...

SF>From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)

> I used to run a BBS with a ZOOM modem with its hardware message.
> I can program the modem to automatically connect and print out
> a message then disconnect :-)))

SF>Boy, long distance callers would sure love you, eh??!  Not
SF>recommended.

But you forgot to consider that it would be very easy to configure the
modem to answer after 5 or more rings for that "rare" occasion when you
need to take the system down, for example.  Then if LD callers still
insist to stick around, they can get the message from the modem.

I think the message-from-modem is a nice "utility".

 * DeLuxe2 1.25 #10137 * --------------------[ abolins@visavis.cam.org ]---

 * Origin: VIS-a-VIS Communications [Ont+Que] (17:514/115.0)
From: larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US (Lawrence T. Hardiman)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Is this a valid address?
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:32:38 GMT
Reply-To: larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US
Organization: The Birdsong Company, PO Box 2031, Sunnyvale CA 94087-2031

So, I got some mail where the reply address resolved to:

  "FEGUY::CAE237"@CVG.SDRC.COM 

My smarthost re-wrote the address into UUCP format as:

   apple!cvg.sdrc.com!"FEGUY::CAE237"

When I replied to it, it bounced.

Now the question: Is the original internet style address (with 'at' sign)
a valid internet address? Is the way my smarthost re-wrote the address
a valid way to re-write the address?

Inquiring minds wanna know!

Regards,
  larry.


-- 
--
Larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:52:24 MST
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.99

morpheus@entropy.mcds.com (morpheus) writes:

>> periods of, say, a half-hour and up, I can easily imagine some fabled
>> network trouble indicator light coming on, and no one being pleased that
> 
> Doesn't sound likely to me - don't (normal, non-modem-owning) people still
> take the phone off the hook?

every time I've had it off-hook for more than an hour, it's been an accident,
and boy was I ticked when I found out.

[ it happened once when someone phoned me to wake me up for work, and I
didn't hang up the phone properly, and fell back asleep - ouch ]

> Personally, I've had my modem off-hook for long time spans (96+ hours, once)
> without any problems.

I _still_ think the best plan is to phone your local phone company and ask
_them_ what their comments are - if they don't care, I sure don't.  but if
they have a policy of disabling the line after 48 hours (see Ralph's
posting) then you're better to be warned.
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c
From: paul.elliott@hrnowl.lonestar.org (Paul Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: files section, cd rom.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:56:39 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Me? Organized?

Is it possible to make the main directory of a cd rom to be
accessible from the files section. I have no problem making
cd rom subdirectories accessible but it does not seem to
work with the main directory "S:/".

I have tried putting "S:" in the disks: entry of the static file
and a "S:/" entry in the dirs file, but non privlileged uses get
the message "directory not open". What am I doing wrong?


Paul Elliott                                  Telephone: 1-713-781-4543
Paul.Elliott@hrnowl.lonestar.org              Address:   5857 South Gessner #224
                                              Houston Texas 77036
From: mack@laptop.wes.open.de (Jochen Erwied)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: command 'me' in waffle 1.64
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:08:59 CST
Reply-To: mack@wes.open.de (Jochen Erwied)
Distribution: world
Organization: Creative Chaos Computing - on Tour :-)

daniel drucker <xyzzy@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:

> When I type 'me' in waffle 1.64, I get:
> Coreleft: 240744
> Display mode: 3
> Columns: 80
> Active page: 0
> Video Adapter: [insert linenoise type garbage here]
>
> Any ideas ?

Read the file user.doc - it should be the command 'memory'...
From: revc@Garg.Campbell.CA.US (Bob Van Cleef)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: ncsu dup checker/HellDiver problems
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 08:01:10 -0800
Organization: The Land of Garg

In <rHNYrAhCBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US> ka6etb@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (KA6ETB Steve Harding) writes:
>Found a problem when running ncsu and using helldiver.

nscu has one option for saving a control file in each directory.
The file is named nscu.ctl. Helldiver tries to convert that filename
into a number... Thus the strange article counts. If you remove all
of those files, and do not use the -hf option, Helldiver appears to
work correctly again.

Bob

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From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Offline Readers and broken software
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:20:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: gaia.1jsqs3INNm5b
Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, College of Oceanography
NNTP-Posting-Host: skyking.oce.orst.edu

In article <78WYrAsFBh107h@carlos> carlos@infoserv.com writes:
>For the last time, My STATIC file is configured correctly for the
>modified version of WAFFLE I was given by my host. period

If your version of Waffle won't let you configure your site properly,
get a real version of Waffle.

>>The problem isn't Helldiver. 

>Then why did Rhys email me the new HSEND.EXE fix, which now correctly
>sets my headers?

Because he figured that you wouldn't bother to act on your own behalf
and fix your own problems with the software you already have, and he has
somewhat more interest in following the procedures that the rest of the
does?

>>Maybe if your Waffle was configured correctly it would be more
>>functional?

>See above topic..

Ok, maybe if you were running a real copy of Waffle and not the
"modified" version you were given it would be more functional?

>Since now HELLDIVER works properly, 

If your Waffle configuration was correct, Helldiver would be able to
read the same static file your Waffle did. Helldiver is not and was not
at fault here.

>>Relying on the loose interpretation of the standards by other sites is
>>not the correct solution to a misconfiguration problem. 

>Loosen your belt a notch or two, you are taking this way too seriously

I understand. You have a toy, and you don't give a damn whether your toy
works properly with everyone else's systems as long as your postings get
out. You couldn't care less that people you annoy in mail can't reply to
your annoyance. 

I only hope that you tire of your toy soon and put it away so the rest
of us don't have to put up with it. There are people who are happy when
nets are interoperable, and take an active interest in seeing that
continue. Stop sabotaging them.
From: mlewis@wplace.UUCP (Mark Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: 24 Jan 93 20:51:01 GMT
Reply-To: mlewis%wplace@cssnet.UUCP
Organization: The Waffle House, Waldo's Place USA


bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> For God's sake.  Can't you just TELL your users that at certain (or even
> random) times you take the system down for various housekeeping tasks and
> that the phone won't answer during those times?  Or is it considered horse-
> shit to reveal such secrets to users?

not too feasible when your system get international and out-of-state 
calls on a regular basis, now is it?? -=B-)

)\/(ark

 <--------- * DA-CON Consultants - Creating Solutions since 1985 * --------->
  UUCP ~!duke!wolves!cssnet!wplace!mlewis
  USENet->FIDONet Mark.Lewis@f12.n3634.z1.fidonet.org
  The Company, The Words, The Thoughts, and The System are all mine...
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson)
Subject: Re: UUcico via Terminal Server
Reply-To: peterson@csc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:40:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.153810.4372%wjchu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw>, wjchu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Wen-Jeng Chu (NE U780105) TEL. 715131-4870) writes:
|> 
|> Dear Netter:
|>      
|>      I login my SunOS workstation by way of a Terminal Server witn a modem.

  Me, too.  In my case the server is an Annex.  If you're still having
problems you might follow up with the details of your terminal server,
e.g., the brand name and model number.

|> Does the UUcico in Waffle work when it dial to Terminal Server and then 
|> login workstation ??

  Yes!  To get an 8-bit channel my chat script tells the Annex the following.
	stty oflow none iflow none -tabs attn none -imask7 parity none tesc none
The chat script breaks this up into multiple lines.  Setting these
parameters also enables zmodem transfers.

    Bob

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P.O. Box 865132       Work: peterson@csc.ti.com           FAX line: 214 995-0304
Plano, Tx 75086-5132  BBS: +1 214 596 3720  300/1200/2400/9600+ (HST or V.32bis)