HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Jonathan Herr <herrj%n@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Caller Summary Program
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 08:51:45 EST
Organization: WVCF, Vincennes, IN, USA
Disclaimer: Author responsible for contents

vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:

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

Then off it goes.  I'll have to go back through the directions to
upload via email.  I've been off of the net for a while things
change.

# 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.

Agreed, but since a lot of people have trouble getting mail from
there, I have reservations about the availability.

# [...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 **********	

I'm working on this already.  I've been out of touch with everything
for a while.  I developed cancer during the summer and have been in
remission since October.  Chemotherapy plays some pretty nasty tricks
on the brain.  I'm finding myself going back through a lot my text
books from my college days to re-learn some things.  Also, I'm bogged
down by a contract program that I've been working on with FoxPro.
Once I have that done, I can put my whole heart into some of the
utilities that I've started but not finished and make revisions to
others, too.  It's nice to be getting back into the grove.

Thanks for responding!



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: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Looking for the author of fredgate
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 01:37:38 MET
Organization: The Blues Family

Hi there!

I'm looking for the email address of the author of fidonet <-> usenet
gateway software (like fredgate).

Please anwser by mail. Thank you.

        Kosta


-- 
  Kosta Kostis, Talstrasse 25, D-6074 Roedermark 3, Germany
  kosta@blues.kk.sub.org                                        (home)
  kostis@frsmic.enet.dec.com                                    (work)
  sw authors: please support ISO 8859-1!        =aeoeueAEOEUEss
From: rad@railnet.nshore.ORG (Rick DeMattia)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:57:41 GMT
Organization: Railnet BBS +1 216 786 0476

roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:

> jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused) writes:
> 
> >      Somewhere in the middle of the article the poster had put in a
> > ^Z.  Waffle stopped at this point and read no further, even though
> > the rest of the file was about 10k....
> 
> Waffle handles files in text mode, except when reading/writing the spool
> for off-site traffic.  (right, Bill?)  ...

And possibly except when reading the admin/logfiles.

--
UUCP: {uunet|backbone}!railnet!rad   rad@railnet.nshore.org
CompuServe: 72517.666@compuserve.COM
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org [Validated] (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Editor problem....
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:42:19 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

I cannot seem to get my external editor (qedit) to work for any other
account except my own.  The security levels are the SAME at 9.

I use STATUS, EDITOR and select the one I have configured in
EXTERN\_editors.  Fine.

But the editor doesn't kick in!  It show's up on the STATUS display as
selected, but it doesn't run.

When I go in as "abolins", the editor works fine.  And like I said, the
security levels are the SAME at 9.

On other thing, why does Waffle report that there are "no editors
available on this system" when I have built the ~\EXTERN\_EDITORS file
and it calls the "qedit" editor fine.

  Text Editor: qedit
Terminal Type: vt100

 System calls: 42
  ..and posts: 20

    Time left: -86

  Last caller: august (/|ugust /|bolins)

change Editor Level Name Password Terminal? edit

There are currently no editors
available on this system..

Your current editor is set to "qedit".


---  August Abolins  --------------[ abolins%visavis@nyongwa.cam.org ]---
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:20:01 GMT

In article <dan.724771241@dribble> dan@dribble.c-mols.siu.edu (Dan Ellison) writes:
>Yes, but you still have to submit a new map entry describing you path
>for receiving mail after a move.  IMHO, this is more work that sending
>a piece of email to the MX record site requesting that they change 
>the delivery host (when using the .us domain that is....)

There is still a problem in that nearby uucp sites are forced to
forward through the internet to reach you if you are known only
by the domain name, which might be a much more expensive route
than one found by a map entry.  Of course any site with enough
traffic to be concerned could set up a direct link with you anyway.

>>What would be wrong with a .PRI domain for unaffiliated, private sites?

>This could easily become unmanagable. 

But maybe it's time for all the uucp sites to set up their own
second-level domain names just like everyone is always advising.
Then we'd find out how well the system really works.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us
From: chorn@eastwind.mcds.com
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Ansi & Waffle
Keywords: ansi waffle
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 12:11:15 EST
Organization: The East Wind  +1 201 875 7063

dwrage@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (David William Wrage) writes:

> Is it possible to display ansi menus in Waffle?  I have no problem 
> with having two seperate sets of menus that can be copied over each
> other on a user-per-user basis, but so far each of my attempts to have
> Waffle display the menu fails and returns me all the ansi sequences
> in text mode.  Please note that I have tried the video: ANSI (or BIOS)
> and it did not help.  The menus display fine from dos or from a viewer
> I have, but waffle seems to be reading the menu file, analyzing it, then
> spitting out this 'digested' text.  Is there a way to force Waffle to 
> display an ansi file when requested to do so, without the 'digestion'
> process?

Ansi was a little broken in 1.65 as you noticed, and how broken I'm not
sure. What has been found so far is that if the line of text with Ansi
codes in it has a % variable in it, it will be displayed properly on the
local console because Waffle will route it through the Ansi driver (if you
have video: ansi in your static file) If the line has no % variable in it,
Waffle appears to do direct screen output, so the codes won't be translated.
This is why all you saw was raw output.

So, for example (use literal character for esc of course :-)

(esc)1;36mM(esc)0;36main Menu     <- Would not display properly locally

(esc)1;36mM(esc)0;36main Menu~%*  <- Will display properly locally

~%* forces it to use the proper display routine, but does nothing else.
It also gets filtered out so you won't see it locally or online either.

Even if your local output is a mess, it will still appear perfectly fine
to a online user. However, it seems every once in a while Waffle also
resets the terminal to the default tty state. I have called in to my
BBS, and the color works fine most of the time. But when reading news,
long mail, etc... the color has suddenly turned back into B&W after the
first page or two. Why this happens, I have no idea.

Hopefully Tom will fix this in 1.66, and maybe set something up so if a
user has term: ansi then Waffle will look for files with a .ans extension
first. Would save one from the massive batch file kludge.

If you want to see color text menus, feel free to give my board a call.
Right now the ansi is required, because I had trouble with the kludge
taking too long so did away with it.

 ---
 Christopher Horn           |  "We're all caught in a state of decay..."
 chorn@eastwind.mcds.com    |  The East Wind  +1 201 875 7063
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Subject: Does anyone know of a TIP type pgm for DOS/WAFFLE?
Summary: Wants to allow caller to access another computer via second rs232
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:39:44 GMT

I am looking for a way to allow a caller to enter a door that would do a
certain thing.  When the caller enters the door, the BBS would basicaly go
into a sleep mode (while monitoring the data stream for the exit sequence)
and pass all input/output from/to the modem over to a second COM port
which would be connected to a second computer.  

Does such a program exist?  I've thought about trying (haven't tried it
yet) to CTTY the CON to the second COM port, but I don't know if this will
play mess-up games with Waffles dual-ctty stuff.

Running the program that would be on the second computer as a door on the
BBS machine is not an option since the program needs to be running all the
time.  

If you are nosey enought to want to know what I am trying to do, I'll tell
you... the second computer would be running TinyMUD-PC w/3 channels. (local
modem, BBS channel, and CON)

       tweek@netcom.com  tweek@tweekco.uucp  WWIVNet 5@5058  4@5056 
          I'd rather get my cable service from the phone company,
                than my phone service from the cable company.

Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: .QWK mail reader for Waffle
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 06:54:20 GMT

In article <Z672VB1w165w@actrix.co.at> paul@actrix.co.at (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
|Whatever happened to the group over on Compu$erve that was meant to be
|collaborating on a QWK-II standard?  This was meant to fix the defects
|vis-a-vis USEnet support.

Last time I talked to someone who claimed to be working on QWK-II, and
offered help with USENET support, I was told to buzz off, since they
were only interested in Fido...

That's why I've given up on QWK-II...

  Bill
From: morpheus <morpheus@entropy.mcds.com>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: LIMIT command line arg
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:23:06 EST
Organization: No Pity For The Majority!  [private]

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

> |Is there a way to make the "limit" arg on the command line secondary to the
> |user's existing limit?
> 
> Sure.  On line 70 and 200 of login.c, change captime ? captime : foo to
> captime ? min(captime,foo) : foo .

Cool.

But, of course, if I had $120 I'd be running Waffle under linux.  ;-)

Does Tom have any objections regarding distribution of recompiled binaries?
                        (my guess is that he does.  ah well...)


morpheus@entropy.mcds.com ("morph")   |   A name changes toys into tools..
Obsolete diety for hire.  Cheap.      |          - Skinny Puppy
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: Very Big Waffle bug!!
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:10:53 GMT

In article <mcRPVB1w165w@pete.uucp> dennis%pete%nicmad%astroatc.uucp@spool.cs.wisc.edu writes:
|I think
|it is being confused by the switching between C: and D: during the
|processing of the input files and writting the files back to the news
|directories.

I have had my news spool and my UUCP spool on different disks for over 2 years,
and have never had this kind of problem.  I am currently running MS-DOS 5.0,
Waffle 1.65, no disk cache.

Turn off your cache for a few days and see if you keep having these troubles.

  Bill
From: dawson@willard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: UUCICO SPEED
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 12:49:28 EST
Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:

> dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale Weber) writes:
> 
> > jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes:
> > 
> > > Theoretically you're right. But in practice things prove to be different.
> > 
> >   It's is correct, here also.  The *only* feature of my modem that I keep
> > disabled is MNP-5 compression.  Everything else, including v.42 and v.42bis
> > is enabled for inbound as well as outbound calls.  However, since I use
> 
> Fer crissake! Read the bloody standards! If you are using v42bis, you
> are automatically using MNP5, as it is the fallback standard.
> 
> V42bis is a COMPRESSION standard which incorporates MNP5 and V42
> 
> V42    is an error correction standard which incorporates MNP2,3 and 4

Perhaps you're not aware that some modems allow one to enable v.42bis, but
to further disable simple MNP5 compression?  That is how I've got mine set.
If your modem asks for v.42bis, I give it.  If you ask from MNP5, you don't
get it.  For outbound calls, I have the same configuration.  I only ask for
v.42bis, and exclude simple MNP5.  On my T'bit modem, I exclude all data
compression, especially PEP-compression.

The topic is not standards documents, but rather modem documentation.

> 
> --
> Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)                          c/- 238a Tremaine Ave
> dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz                      Palmerston North
> Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245                New Zealand
>        "A wet and windy place at the bottom of the World"
> 
> 


-- 
dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
gatech!vdbsan!willard!dawson
emory!uumind!willard!dawson
Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
From: Jonathan Herr <valnet!herrj@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Caller Summary Program
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:28:03 EST
Reply-To: herrj%valnet@news.cs.indiana.edu
Distribution: comp
Organization: WVCF, Vincennes, IN, USA
Disclaimer: Author responsible for contents

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)


CALLER SUMMARY Version 1.0
Copyright (C) 1991 by Jonathan R Herr
Compiling Data .............................................
Of 678 entries, 11681 minutes and 8966 moves in the caller log:
                                 Hourly Breakdown
                                ++++++++++++++++++
hour |0 |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6 |7 |8 |9 |10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|
_____|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
 day |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
SUN  | 7| 7| 2| 3| 1| 0| 5| 2| 8| 6| 3| 5| 4| 2| 1| 8| 2| 3| 2| 3| 2|12|11|12|
MON  | 5| 4| 2| 1| 1| 0| 6| 8| 4| 2| 0| 0| 5| 2| 1| 2| 1| 6| 1| 6| 6|14|16| 9|
TUE  | 3| 6| 4| 0| 1| 2| 7| 8| 6| 1| 2| 0| 1| 0| 0| 1| 1| 4| 2| 2| 2|11| 9| 9|
WED  | 7| 2| 2| 0| 3| 2|10| 6| 3| 0| 2| 1| 6| 4| 1| 4| 2| 4| 3| 2| 1|14| 8| 7|
THU  | 3| 0| 1| 0| 1| 1| 7| 8| 0| 2| 0| 1| 1| 1| 0| 2| 6| 4| 4| 2| 6|14|14| 7|
FRI  | 4| 6| 4| 0| 1| 0| 9|11| 2| 4| 3| 2| 0| 2| 1| 0| 1| 3| 1| 3| 2|13|15|15|
SAT  |11| 3| 2| 0| 0| 0| 3| 6| 3| 0| 7| 3| 2| 5| 6| 0| 7| 3| 3| 4| 3| 6|10|15|
_____|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
     |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
total|40|28|17| 4| 8| 5|47|49|26|15|17|12|19|16|10|17|20|27|16|22|22|84|83|74|
 Average Minutes Per Call:   17                  Average Moves Per Call:   13
 [SUN  111] [MON  102] [TUE   82] [WED   94] [THU   85] [FRI  102] [SAT  102]

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 ....
Xref: sparky comp.bbs.waffle:5199 comp.mail.uucp:2327
From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 08:27:00 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: 1776 Enterprises, Sudbury MA

trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
> In article <e80RVB2w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> >Suppose someone were to propose that rather than have the .UUCP notation
> >die out, it should be formalized as a "real" domain.  Aside from the obvi-
> >ous problem that existing mail programs handle this notation in several 
> >mutually inconsistent ways, why would it be such a bad idea?
> 
> It is not a bad idea at all, but it has already been done.
> 
> It's called .ORG, .EDU, .COM, .INT, and .<YourCountry>.
> 
> How would registering under .UUCP be different from registering under any
> other domain?

As it happens, I answered that question in the part of the article that Mr
Trier didn't quote.  Perhaps he didn't read that far.

   ___            _                                           -  Bob
   /__) _   /    / ) _   _
(_/__) (_)_(_)  (___(_)_(/_______________________________________ bob@1776.COM
Robert K. Coe ** 14 Churchill St, Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 ** 508-443-3265
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: sysman... NOT!
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:51:26 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

I thought 1.65 install was going to be easy.  I was moving up from 1.64
so I had to make sure I didn't do a blatant "pkunzip -d" over the
existing files.

Anyways... most of the upgrade process went ok except SYSMAN.  It seems
that SYSMAN is hardcoded to look for C:\WAFFLE\ADMIN !!!!!

                        Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

I was forced to create C:\WAFFLE\ADMIN and copy my PASSWORD file there.
(My Waffle system lives in D:\WAFFLE\...)  Then, the index file was
created fine.

Questions:

[1] Do I have to keep this C:\WAFFLE\ADMIN directory?  Will Waffle use
    INDEX in the D:\WAFFLE\ADMIN directory if I copy it back there?

[2] Does waffle access the INDEX file during the normal course of its
    operations?

[3] Is Waffle smart enough to look for INDEX in my D:\WAFFLE\ADMIN?

Comments and help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.


---  /|ugust /|bolins  --------------[ abolins%visavis@nyongwa.cam.org ]---
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle Help! Can't Post News
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:22:33 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

efs@summa4.MV.COM (Ed Sinamark) writes:

> I just installed waffle 1.65 for the first time, I have been able to 
> get it to connect to my host, download email and news, unbatch news,
> read email and news, send email.  But when I try and post to a newsgroup is
> says that it has been posted to global newsgroup but my spool directory
> is always empty, the posting gets placed in my /news/whatever directory
> so I can read the posting but it never gets into my spool directory so
> it never gets uploaded to my server.  I have no problem sending email
> or receiving news batches.

E-mail does not get batched like news does. Make sure you are running
'batch' sometime and have \waffle\system\feeds set up right. Read
section 4 of rnews.doc about giving someone a newsfeed.


--
Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vrv@cimage.com (Victor Volkman)
Subject: Waffle/uuPCB problem
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:17:32 GMT

Hello, I am using Waffle in conjunction with uuPCB (UUCICO-based front-end for
PCBoard systems).  I seem to be having an unusual problem which may or may
not be even related to either of those two software packages.  The situation
is that I have recently been granted a us domain address of hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us
and am having MX forward from a host called vela.acs.oakland.edu.  Now, vela
is directly connected to the internet.  I get my mail via uucp from another
system called iunet.ann-arbor.mi.us (a plexus computer) who in turn gets mail
via uucp from vela.acs.oakland.edu.  I am getting speedy service on both
inbound and outbound mail.  However, nothing I post to a newsgroup ever makes
it to other Usenet sites anywhere.  The newsgroup messages *ARE* getting
dropped into the spool directory and *ARE* being sent by UUCICO to the
host iunet.ann-arbor.mi.us.  Beyond there, they seem to be either being
ignored or killed by something.  It doesn't seem to matter which newsgroup
I try it on either.  (This message is posted from cimage.com).

Please reply to vrv@cimage.com directly with any hints or tricks.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Editor problem....
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:52:37 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

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

> In article <9osoVB3w165w@visavis.uucp> abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org [
> |I cannot seem to get my external editor (qedit) to work for any other
> |account except my own.  The security levels are the SAME at 9.
> 
> Are you on the local console?  You need to set the local editor, which
> you can only do via ADMIN T (see the FAQ, under EDITORS, question 2)

Thank you.

> |On other thing, why does Waffle report that there are "no editors
> |available on this system" when I have built the ~\EXTERN\_EDITORS file
> |and it calls the "qedit" editor fine.
> 
> Because you need to edit /waffle/menus/editors.

Thank you.


---  August Abolins  --------------[ abolins%visavis@nyongwa.cam.org ]---
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: harrison@adobe.com (Harrison Page)
Subject: Re: Waffle Goodies..
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:32:06 GMT

In article <1gdt8kINNaqd@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca>, pdivine@unixg.ubc.ca (Patrick
Divine) wrote:
> 
> 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.

Waffle v1.66 has this feature.  (Available soon, one could suppose.)

  ..Harrison

--
Harrison Page (harrison@adobe.com)
Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, California
"Not satisified with being dead, they packed up and headed west."