HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dwrage@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (David William Wrage)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.mail
Subject: Re: post comp.bbs.waffle
Date: 18 Dec 92 03:12:54 GMT
Organization: Ohio University C.S. Dept, Athens

In article <yoeyVB1w165w@pes.com>, mpearl@pes.com (Mike Pearl) writes:
> Is anyone out there running WWIVEDIT under Waffle?  If so, can you 
> send me a copy of your configuration files, and .BAT files?  I'm 
> lost in this documentation, I have no earthly idea what it's looking
> for, or how to set my %1 %2 %3 %4 variable.  Tx!
> 
> 
> ----------=============================================----------
>      Michael Pearl      |       Professional Exchange Services
>      mpearl@pes.com     |       Bethesda, MD
>                         |       (301) 907-0349

Better yet, how about some kind soul posting that _editor file or a 
sample batch file that shows us how to do that.  I'm sure that more
than one person would like to see how that is done.

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SysOp of DDT Archives BBS
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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Shroom and Waffle, mutual coexistence IS possible!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:20:37 CST
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN

bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca (Brad Crockett) writes:

> magus@brewhau.bison.mb.ca (James Copland) writes:
> 
> > I would like some advice from the net as to which editor to go
> > with and some idea of the "feel" of the various editors.  Security is
> > a concern for me, so shelling from the editor is out.  It must, due to
> > waffle, run in 335.5K (according to mem /c).  If it is easy to set up,
> > all the better.
> 
> I've been looking for the same thing.  BBStevie was recommended,
> but I have not been able to get it to work remotely.  It's not
> supposed to use direct screen writes, and supposedly has the
> security you're looking for.

BBStevie does all its i/o through stdin/stdout.  However, running an
ANSI driver will often interfere with Waffle's i/o redirection.  The
best bet is to upgrade to BBStevie 3.0, which will handle its own i/o
through a FOSSIL driver.  That way, you can run NANSI.SYS to use
BBStevie locally, and it will still operate remotely.

(note that BBStevie will not operate correctly with MS-DOS ANSI.SYS,
since Microsoft elected to implement only a subset of the ANSI screen
commands)
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:35:36 GMT

In article <1gl0i3INNddg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
> Here's the question: What would legitimizing .UUCP offer that the current
> domain system does not offer?  Try to answer clearly so that I can understand.

Because the alternatives for a site with no obvious affiliation are currently
.com and .us. The problem with .com is that it carries the assumption that you
are carrying on a business. Many people would rather not give the local phone
company YET ANOTHER excuse to charge a hobby at business rates.
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Caller Summary Program
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:36:00 GMT

Jonathan Herr <valnet!herrj@news.cs.indiana.edu> writes:

>Here's the output of a program that I wrote last year.  I could have
>sworn that I had sent it to the halcyon archive but didn't see it
>listed in it's file list.  If there is enough interest in the
>program, I will post the uuencoded zip file to the net (only 16K).
>Otherwise, I'll just send it to halcyon and you can retrieve it
>there.  I'm sure that Ralph will pick it up either way.  At least, I
>hope that he would.  8)

I don't think it ever showed up on halcyon.

I'd recommend that you just put it on halcyon for ftp and it'll be
available for uuencoded mail-serving within a day or two...that way
only the 20 or so people who will want it initially will grab it
and the other 14,000 comp.* systems won't have to get it and let
it expire.

[...creeping featurism alert!!!...]

incidentally, I like the report a lot. Is there any way to have it generate
a bar chart like:


callers between 8AM-4PM

mon	25 *********************
tue	 9 *******
wed	15 **********	
-- 
          Vince Skahan				vince@halcyon.com (here)
    vince@atc.boeing.com (work)		    vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (home)
             *** Oxymoron of the day - "decision in progress" ***
From: pdivine@unixg.ubc.ca (Patrick Divine)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle Goodies..
Date: 12 Dec 1992 23:40:04 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

I'm contemplating writing a few waffle goodies in C, but I am wondering
whether or not someone has written something similiar to them before I go
ahead and code them.

Is there a program that formats a message so that all messages in a
particular newsgroup are written under the same format?

I am in the process of setting up an alternative UUCP network around
Vancouver, BC and the lower mainland called FISHNET, and we have a
newsgroup called "fish.buy-sell" .. we want all of the messages posted in
this newsgroup to have the exact same format so people won't be confused
about what they are looking at.

Another project I wanted to write was a mirror program that is basicly this:
a program looks at a specific file directory on a system and holds a
listing of all the files in that directory.  A similiar program is run on
a remote system and it compiles a list aswell.

then the two systems mail each other their compiled list and check for
files which aren't contained on the other system.  they mark this down,
and then use UUCP to send the other system the files that are missing in
that directory.  

there could be an entire chain of BBS's like this that all hold identicle
file systems, or if there was a system in between two systems that didn't
want it to be mirrored, they could just have the files online temporarily
until they get copied to the next system.

Another idea we had, was to create a small program that keeps a listing of
all new newsgroups added.  There would be a file called "subscribe" in
each users directory that would have a newsgroup appedned to it when a new
newsgroup was added.  When a user logs on, it asks if they want to
subscribe to all the newsgroups in the subscribe file, appends the
newsgroups to the "join" file and deletes it from the "subscribe" file.

--

I haven't seen any utilities out there like the ones I've proposed, but
that isn't to say no one has written them.  If someone HAS written them,
please drop me a note because I would be interested in taking a look.

My 386 only has a meg of ram and a few mb's of hard drive space left, and
won't run my TC++ 3.0 compiler, so I ftp'd another C compiler but I
haven't taken a look at it yet.  I don't know when I'll get around to
writing any of these utilities, but hopefully I will be getting some nice
equiptment for christmas.


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: Wafmail help and questions.
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:03:24 GMT

In article <8ZemVB3w165w@dithots.Gwinnett.COM> gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue) writes:
|Maybe this is easier than having those small misc files laying around, but
|I use:
|
|echo Y | for %%d da da da del %%d

I used to do this, but when my disk filled up one day, and MS-DOS couldn't
find a place to put the temporary file with the "Y" in it, I figured it would
be better to have a stupid little file lying around.

(Remember that when the disk is full is when you absolutely definitely *do*
want to delete these files... *sigh*...)

  Bill
Xref: sparky comp.bbs.waffle:5315 comp.mail.uucp:2356
From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Very Big Waffle bug!!
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:36:46 EST
Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY

root@cibbs.UUCP writes:

> dennis@pete.uucp (Dennis Peterson) writes:
> 
> > I just got thought rebuilding my hard disk for the SECOND time. And
> > Waffle did it to me!.
> [stuff deleted]
> > I have not worked on this much further.  I really do not want to
> > rebuild my disk again.
> > 
> > If anyone wants more details I will be glad to pass it on what I can.
> > 
> > Waffle 1.65
> > Dos 5.0
> > Norton 6.01
> > C: 210 IDE Drive
> > D: 100 MB SCSI on Seagate ST01 card.
> 
> Turn off the write-back delay on your Norton Cache. This crap was happening t
> me alot until I did so with my PC-CACHE. This can cause problems because it
> can stop a non-reentrant DOS call and play havoc with your system.
> 
> Been running fine every since...
> Mark

Agreed -- I had numerous problems using "staged writes" and HyperDisk.
Turned them off and been stable as *ell ever since.  FYI, my config:
Waffle 1.64
DOS 5.0
4DOS 3.02a
Seagate 1.2G on Adaptec 1542B host
Waffle on C:
/user on E: (100M)
/public on F: (325M)
/news on G: (100M)
/spool on H: (100M)

Jon

=============================================================================
                   Jon Freivald ( jaf%jaflrn@uunet.UU.NET )
	 Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it.
=============================================================================
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: rejected??????
Date: 12 Dec 92 04:30:21 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

:::[1]:::
When a new user wants to log in, they enter the 'new' login name, are
asked to put in their full name, and then *poof*, Waffle exits.
Subsequent review of the "events" file shows...

11-Dec-92 23:24 < con >    | Entry Refused - John Theos
11-Dec-92 23:25 < con >    | Entry Refused - Vija Abolins
11-Dec-92 23:26 < con >    | Entry Refused - Vija Abolins

What is going on?  Why can't 'new' callers get an account?

:::[2]:::
Also... what is "splash" after login?  The docs do not describe what it
is and how/when to use it.


---  /|ugust /|bolins  --------------[ abolins%visavis@nyongwa.cam.org ]---
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Polling problem / awaiting remote identification
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:17:01 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

jphaid@ruby.fred.org (JP Haid) writes:

> There's an incompatibility problem,
> Either the unix site has'nt got the right account info installed, or not 
> using "g" protocol...I don't know. I had the same problem trying to make 
> a Proline<->Waffle(dos) connection, but stopped trying do to 
> incompatability. Have the Unix sysadm recheck the UUCP account for your 
> site.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to admit this in public, but if it
will kill an unneeded thread, I will sacrifice some face. The
problem was I was expecting the drop to uucp text in my script.
Waffle's uucico never had a chance to see it. Thanks for the
thought, tho.


--
Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: GIF PICTURE PRODUCTION
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:50:18 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

root@cultnet.ch (SYSTEM_GURU) writes:

> GIF PICTURE PRODUCTION
> **********************
> 
> I would like to have 'home made' GIF pictures on my waffle bbs.
> I want to offer high quality GIFs (high resolution) to my users.
> 
> -what is the best image-grabber on the market ? (we have broadcast
>  quality cameras and VCRs).
> 
> -what is the best grabber-software (ore converter) for GIF-pictures ??

I hate to be a spoilsport, but why are you posting this question here?
It doesn't actually have anything to do with the Waffle software.  A
newsgroup devoted to digital graphics would be more appropriate.

-- 
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pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  fashion models is falling through
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: KILL
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:41:42 GMT

Jonathan Herr <valnet!herrj@news.cs.indiana.edu> writes:

>I would kill for KILL!

you have now entered my permanent kill file...I run 'nn' :-)
(me too...that's why I switched to linux and real-news.
-- 
          Vince Skahan				vince@halcyon.com (here)
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             *** Oxymoron of the day - "decision in progress" ***
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: UNIX Waffle on Apollo's
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:34:29 GMT

david@cssnet.UUCP (J. David Schronce) writes:

>I was recently given (yes GIVEN!!) an Apollo DN3000 Workstation which I 
>am configuring to allow shell accounts to local high school students who 
>have an interest in UNIX.  I would also like to install Waffle on this 
>machine and before I send Tom my $120 (American) I wanted to see if 
>anyone else had installed Waffle on one of these monsters, and if so, 
>what traps and pitfalls did you discover that I can/should avoid.
>  
>Code patches would be greatly appreciated....

I'm following up rather than mailing to make sure you see it
(since you said your mail link isn't too great).

There are several apollo-related wierdnesses you need to know about.

1. apollo serial i/o doesn't handle switching speeds at all well.  You'll
	have loads of trouble if you try to call multiple sites at
	different speeds.  Definitely set your modem to reset to saved
	settings EVERY time you drop DTR.  You can run either getty or
	their apollo-specific 'siomonit' to monitor for incoming calls.

2. apollos are NOT real unix.  They're wierd.  Real wierd.  The compiler
	is also not ansi no matter what they tell you.  Include files
	are not in the right places.  Some versions of the compiler
	generate garbage (ie... v6.8 of the C compiler stinks, but v6.7
	was reasonably stable (though non-ansi).  v6.9 seems better).

3. apollos have a very mutant administrative setup.  You can't merely
	edit the password file for example...they have many, many
	'value added :-(' features you can't turn off.

4. An apollo dn3000 is something like a 1.5 MIP system, meaning it'll
	be real piggy if they do anything at all in the shell level.
	It's simple to overload one.


You didn't mention the version of the o/s you run, so I can't speak to
what compiler version you'll need and what fun you'll have in specifics.
If you've run 'real unix', you can probably run an apollo if you have the
docs.  If you got an apollo without documentation, you're in for a load of
trouble...(I run 240 of them at work for the last 6 years).  They're not
'real unix' and you can't run them like you'd run a real unix system.

that said, the answer is that you 'should' be able to compile and run
waffle under domain/os if you have sr10.1 or later and v6.7 or later of
the c compiler...

-- 
          Vince Skahan				vince@halcyon.com (here)
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             *** Oxymoron of the day - "decision in progress" ***
From: Jonathan Herr <valnet!herrj@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: KILL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:55:22 EST
Reply-To: herrj%valnet@news.cs.indiana.edu
Organization: WVCF, Vincennes, IN, USA
Disclaimer: Author responsible for contents



I would kill for KILL!

Jonathan R Herr                             I can't quit you, babe.
herrj@valnet.uucp                           I guess I'll have to put you down
WVCF System Administrator                   For a little while ....
From: nguyen@spectrx.saigon.com (nguyen duong)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Bad header
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:42:59 GMT
Organization: SPECTROX SYSTEMS (408)252-1005 Silicon Valley, Ca

steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB) writes:

> Indeed.  I changed my BNU buffers sizes to 4096, as you suggest, primarily
> in an attempt to increase throughput.  It didn't work, but as a side effect
> it seems to have cleared up the bad header problem.
> 
> As someone else suggested, increasing background slice to 250 may help, as
> well.
> 
> I also dropped to 19.2 from 38.4.  I'm not sure if that has an effect or
> not.
> 
> In any event, the problem seems to have gone away.
> 
> steve
> 
> -- 
> play:steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US 408.252.0578     work:harding@nas.nasa.gov
>               A prince trapped in the body of a dirty old man.

Please explain a little bit more about background slice!
You said, you dropped to 19.2. What did you drop?
Thanks for your time.

--
nguyen@spectrx.saigon.com (nguyen duong)
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005  Silicon Valley, Ca
From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: A Neophyte's Questions
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 11:00:57 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

mtbb136@ms.uky.edu (John S. Roberts Jr.) writes:

-> 1.  I have set up a schedule file, but don't know how to get it to
->     automatically execute.  I have tried running "waffle.exe" and let
->     it sit there as time passes through jobs that I want executed at
->     a particular time.  Any ideas?

Did your rename ~/system/schedule.ex to just schedule?
Del ~/system/stamp, sometimes it is dated in the future and screws
    things up.

-> 2.  I want to leave my computer and modem on all the time so that it
->     can call out (see above question) and transfer mail, however I do
->     not want it to answer the phone.  Can I set something in the static
->     file so that my modem is not set to autoanswer?

Include S0=0 in the init string, on most modems this shuts off 
   auto answer.  Check your modem manual to be sure.
Make sure the AUTOATA static parameter is NOT in your
   ~/system/static file.

-> 3.  Instead of seeing the window "Awaiting Call...."  is there a way that
->     waffle will continuously display the number of message or unread
->     messages for each of the users on my system?  A few of my family
->     members don't receive much mail so they don't want to have to login
->     each time they want to check.

Insert the following util into your run.bat just before the Waffle
<options> line.  Syntax is up to your own utils, but here is the 
pseudo code.

  Clear screen
  For each user
    display name
    Grep "<SOL>From " mailbox.f | Linecount
  Next user

You can also just hit "m" at the "Awaiting Call...." screen for a
  list of the last 20 pieces of mail.


-> 4.  Is there a way that I can get registered in some sort of map file so
->     that people can send me mail at johnr@agnostic.uucp instead of my
->     current agnostic!johnr@ms.uky.edu?   Assuming someone else is not
->     using the name agnostic, of course.

If you really want to be .uucp <blech> check for the submissions 
address for your local maps in your local maps.

For the standard top level domains (.com, .edu, .org) contact:
  hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil

For the .us domain contact:  (Damn, can't find Ann's address)


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From: gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: WAFFLE to FIDO: Has it been done?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 10:45:20 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Gordon's Pinetree * Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:

> ----[snip]----
> 
> Q.  Can I connect to Fidonet with Waffle?
> 
> A.  [Amanda-plug deleted to conserve space]

I think it should be made clear that there are atleast two other programs 
which also do bi-directional gating.  One is UFGate and the other is 
Fredmail.  As well, there is atleast one other which is in development, 
that I know of.

Infact, the aforementioned programs will handle both news/echos and mail.

  --G

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: what the...
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:52:30 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:

> I have now installed 1.65.  But this is *still* happening when I "login"...
> 
> Unknown command: DATE:.
> ....
> Unknown command: MIKE.

Delete or rename the file WAFFLE in your /user/abolins directory.

This filename is an automated startup scripts. It contains
a list of commands you want to use when you login.


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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: rejected??????
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 18:25:19 CST
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN

jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused) writes:

>      New idea?  Why not use that for newusers.  Copy "splash.txt" to the
> user's name ala newuser.bat.  In order for the new user to *get rid*
> of the "annoying" splash file, he has to read to the end in order to
> find the extern command to delete his splash file.

P'raps not a good idea.  Mere mortal users cannot access /waffle/text,
much less delete files in there.

You _could_ add 'type annoy.txt' to the default waffle file in a
newbie's dir, and then he'd have to discover what a waffle file is, and
how to edit it.

The best thing about Waffle is the learning curve.  "Think of it as
evolution in action."
--
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   "I like Santa Claus as well as the next guy, but do you really want a
   hard drive that's spent 6000 miles at the bottom of a canvas sack in a
            wooden sleigh powered by airborne reindeer?" -- me
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Removing crossposts from a FOLLOWed post
From: bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca (Brad Crockett)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 21:56:54 PST
Organization: Private system in Duncan, BC, Canada

When replying to an article that has been cross posted, how do you
specify which newsgroups you want to cross post to?  Or are you
forced to FOLLOW to the exact same newsgroups that the original
article specified?

Brad Crockett, Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
INTERNET: bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca
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