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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle to Pmail gateway
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:04:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: kudu.g89r4222.722027048
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa


Hi,

A short while ago somebody posted about a Waffle <--> pmail
gateway.  I wonder if anybody has the address of a site where I
can ftp this monster?

Geoff.
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From: kilgore@obelisk.pillar.com (Stan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Doorways
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 14:51:11 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Pillar Communications, Oklahoma City, Ok

ron@ceis.tnet.com (Ronald Daggett) writes:

> jake@infopls.chi.il.us (Jim Kearney) writes:
> 
> > What program would I need to run BBS door programs (ex. requiring 
> > DOOR.SYS or CHAIN.TXT) under Waffle and how would I do this?
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > jake@infopls.chi.il.us (Jim Kearney)
> > Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247, v32bis. Home of Infoplus.
> 
> You need a program called DoorMaster.  I have version 5.8 here.  They have
> an Internet address of by355@cleveland.freenet.edu
> 

    DM58.ZIP (I think) should be available on halcyon.com and 
    on wuarchive.wustl.edu (and other simtel mirrors) as
    /mirrors/msdos/bbsdoors/dm_58.zip.

    Kilgore



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From: rad@railnet.nshore.ORG (Rick DeMattia)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: External database access through Waffle
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 10:15:41 EST
Organization: Railnet BBS +1 216 786 0476

mw@pandora.mei.open.de (Martin Welk) writes:

> 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.

Bdexx200.zoo that just came through on comp.binaries.ibm.pc looks
promising too - and allegedly there's a DOS waffle site using
it.  I'll have to check this out more thoroughly.

Thanks to all on the net who have replied anbd followed-up.

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From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Error Message
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:43:00 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

johnr@mik.uky.edu (John S. Roberts, Jr.) writes:

-> However, whenever I dial the remote-host I get  
-> the RLOGIN error.  

Details please.  Exact wording of error message(s), appropriate lines
from all your ~/uucp/files (don't forget to XXXX out phone nums and 
passwords) and such.

RTFM first, check the error message(s) against those listed in
NETWORK.DOC.



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From: lance%circle@wolves.durham.nc.us (Lance A. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: News/mail reader
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:18:33 EST
Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC

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

> In article <1992Nov17.150618.21522@morpheus.bssi.bls.com> dawson@morpheus.bss
> |The proper solution to the join file reset problem is to fix Waffle!  What
> |ought to occur, on the occasion that a user's join file indicates an article
> |higher than is available, is that Waffle ought to reset the join file line
> |to the highest numbered article in the group, such that that article is
> |lower-numbered than the previous entry in the join file.
> 
> So when you delete all the messages in a newsgroup, and 100 articles come
> in, you think that the person who had read up to 1032 should have his JOIN
> pointer set to 100, so that he misses 99 new articles?  Or 0, so he gets to
> read all 100 new messages?...
> 
>   Bill

Well, I consider the default Waffle behavior unfriendly at best.  I would 
like to see Waffle maintain a file relating a newsgroup with the last 
article number for that group.  Using this there is no need to ever reset 
someones join pointer.  It would also make some other things faster.

Lance
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Smail
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 17:34:43 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

jerryg@jaiser.uucp (Jerry Gaiser) writes:

> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>
> > Just wondering if anyone has done a port of smail for use with
> > waffle - particularly the ability to handle batched mail feeds -
> > i.e is there any software for waffle which will handle
> > compressed, batched mail, of the form used by smail.
> 
> Are you saying that waffle doesn't handle compressed, batched mail?
> I've just set up a waffle bbs that I'm sending this message out on.
> At this point everything is coming in as single messages, but I had
> planned on going to compressed batches the beginning of next week.
> Tell me it isn't true. My feed isn't going to like it.

There is a utility for Waffle which unbatches batched e-mail. It's
called RBMAIL.ZIP. Here's the docs for it :
--
                               RBMAIL for DOS
                (C) Michael Bravo and Octopus Software Inc.

                               WHAT IS THIS?

  This program is designed to handle batched mail in UUCP ebvironment.
  Primarily, it was intended to do as a supplement to rmail from Waffle/DOS
  package.

                                  RUNNING

  If you're running Waffle/DOS:

  1) Put rbmail.exe into your \waffle\bin directory
  2) Make sure that there is the following keyword in STATIC file:
     uuxqt: rmail rnews rbmail
  3) Make sure that you defined temporary: keyword in STATIC file

  If you're running something else, then you're on your own - this haven't
  been tested with other packages. However it should work. You have to
  check that rbmail is somewhere on the path or in the right place for
  uuxqt to call it, that uuxqt is allowed to call rbmail, and that rbmail
  knows where to put his temporary files. Path to temporary directory can
  be specified in BSPOOL environment variable. If your equivalent of rmail
  is called by some other name, use RMAIL environment variable, like:

  SET RMAIL=sendmail

  Hope it helps,
  /\/\ike
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I can't remember where I got the RBMAIL.ZIP distribution file from,
but I can mail it out in uuencoded form if all else fails..



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From: root@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Splash File
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 07:54:40 EST
Reply-To: uunorth!cibbs!root
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

I am wonder what the SPLASH file is? It's listed in the DOC under ADMIN and no
where else. One of the options, of course, is to display the splash file when
a user logs on. What is this splash file? What is it called on disk? Where do
I put it (should I really need it).

Anyone?

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From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Latest Utilities
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:46:24 GMT
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!


  Does anyone have a list and decriptions for all the available waffle 
  utilities that they could email to me please?

  bill

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From: rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca (Rick Vandenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Address Munging
Keywords: UUCP, Bitnet, mailing list
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 15:14:03 PST
Organization: Vandenberg Systems Research, Vancouver BC

the_sage@ncc1701e.uucp (Jerome Grimmer) writes:

> I have written some software to distribute mail to mailing list members
> via the Bitnet Listserv DISTRIBUTE commands.  This reduces the load on
> slow links or long-distance links and also reduces the load on
> intermediate systems.

Interesting!  I'd like to know more, if you can tell me.

> The software so far creates the distribute job
> fine, provided that I supply addresses that are accessible from the Bitnet
> computer network.  Unfortunately, the From: headers I receive do not
> always have such nice userid@node.bitnet format, many times from bitnet
> the headers are the!nasty!bangpath!from!hell!node.bitnet!user, I was
> wondering if anyone out there had some sort of method for munging these
> addresses back to userid@node.Bitnet.

Some good examples are found in the UUPC sources, available from SIMTEL20
and others.

Rick.

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From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Problems executing external programs from Waffle v1.65
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 13:58:43 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

lfil@athos.az.stratus.com (Lonnie Filbrun) writes:

-> I have the documentation, but have tried everything I can think
-> of but none of my external programs work.. Could someone post or
-> mail me a few examples of executing batch files, .com, and .exe  
-> files?

Post us some of what you are trying to do.  Some extern entries
require changes based on the program(s) you are running.

Here's a one from my extern directory.

UUDECODE
/access=1 /log /slash /command="c:\comm\waffle\bin\uudecode -q -y %i" 
   /then="done-uu"

This allows a user to uudecode a file in their home directory.

Be careful if you are using SHROOM.  A remote user can lock up the
system is if the extern program does not do its own serial i/o or
automatically exit back into the board.

-> 2. During the day when I am home, I have waffle directed to a Link 
-> terminal in my living room. 
-> <details of timeout deleted>

-> RLOGON.BAT
-> @ECHO OFF
-> waffle online 9600
-> CALL RLOGON.BAT  

Huh?

Your batch file is telling waffle that there is someone online already
at 9600 baud.  Waffle sends out its Login: message and waits for a
response.  If it doesn't get one in the timeout period, it exits.

If you just want to keep the BBS in view and watch as users log in. 
You just need to start waffle "bare" and it will put up its "Awaiting
Call......." message.



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From: mlewis@wplace.UUCP (Mark Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: FIDO gateway!!!
Keywords: FIDO mailer external mail UUCP
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:17:21 GMT
Organization: The Waffle House, Waldo's Place USA


dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale Weber) writes:

>    In the case of FrontDoor, the key is to load Waffle with the
> command "WAFFLE ONLINE <speed>" where <speed> is your com port's locked
> baud rate (19200 before I got my HST/DS, 38400 now).  That keeps Waffle

ahhhh, but with Waffle v1.65 you can use WAFFLE ONLINE <DTE_SPEED> instead
of having to use the LOCKED PORT RATE... especially if you are using the
FOSSIL driver for Waffle (since it is loaded for FrontDoor) and you have
told Waffle that you are running a locked port<<grin>>...

also, with a frontend mailer, you can drop straight to UUCICO instead of
having to go thru Waffle... yes, going thru Waffle will log the call in 
Waffle's callers log but some systems are slow enuff that for speed 
considerations, they may want to go straight to UUCICO... BTW: this is 
how i have my FrontDoor setup configured and yes... i use the same string 
to signal a UUCP transfer for all UUCP connections... (in case you are
wondering what that string is... it's UUCP<<grin>>)...

> quite happy.  Oh yes, one last thing - put your string to expect in the
> BBS software name field using FDSETUP (yes, it's a kludge at present but
> it works).

that will work... though a better method is to have the calling system(s)
look for the "Press <ESC>" part of that string, and send the two <ESC>
characters OR the required string... the reason i say "a better method" is
because this string doesn't change like the system name (that comes after
this string) might...  if you are setup as i am and have another BBS package 
as the one under the mailer, then the string to match for external mail is 
what the calling system would send in response to the "Press <ESC>" 
sequence... if, on the other hand, you run Waffle under FD, as one of my 
point systems does, we just send two <ESC> characters and load thru Waffle 
since that's the way he wants it for UUCP logging...

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From: arogers@eis.calstate.edu (Al Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Looking for Waffle in Schools
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:45:13 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I'm trying to find schools that are running Waffle. We provide
a newsgroup service expressly designed for schools which
provide a unqiue environment for teachers and students which
help them to gently enter the confusing world of usenet access.

Al Rogers
FrEdMail Foundation
arogers@bonita.cerf.fred.org
From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: News/mail reader
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:14:28 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

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?

--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA 
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: /expire=5 ??
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:41:26 GMT

kilgore@obelisk.pillar.com (Stan Hall) writes:

>       /pub/incoming/sex100.zip

>    Hopefully it will moved into the waffle archives soon.    

~/pub/waffle/news/sex100.zip

(I still like the name! It may wind up being one of our most popular
downloads, if folks don't check the filename against the index).
From: pspeer@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle and Share.exe question?
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:53:10 EST

I have been trying to get waffle, uuxqt specifically, to run with share.exe
loaded. I get share violations and can't figure out how to get the two to
peacefully co-exist. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how to
do it?

Pat
From: jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle w/Windows 3.1
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:19:14 GMT
Organization: The little node that could...


     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! :-)

                                   Jeff

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From: randall@proteus.qc.ca (Randall Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Silly
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:48:42 GMT
Reply-To: randall@proteus.qc.ca (Randall Reid)
Organization: The Proteus Group, Montreal Canada

william@cithara.uucp (William Ross) writes:

> I notice that some folks publish their 'warez here in what appears to be
> uuencoded format. I have tried to rebuild these files but get an error
> message -begin not found. [sic]  Tips on this one welcome.
> 
> Thanks for your time
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> One day I'll get it right              william@cithara.login.qc.ca
>                                        postmaster%cithara@comback.login.qc.ca

Hi there,

Perhaps you should get a connection to my machine.  I have just about
every utility for Waffle.  I can't send you a good uuencode/uudecode
because you won't be able to uudecode it!

Hmm,  want to login to proteus and download uudecode/uuencode?

Your neighbour,

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From: mike@arts.com (Mike Witt)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: "other" interrupts with BNU
Date: 21 Nov 92 07:08:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: arts.T1ukuB1w165w
Organization: Computer Arts, Portland Oregon, USA


There has been some discussion recently about using other
than interrupts 4 and 3 with FOSSIL drivers.  I'm using the BNU
driver, and I have a modem that is capable of using ints 5 or 7.
I'd like to configure things this way to free up both of my
RS232 ports.

So, in other words, my modem can be:

COM4   I/O ADDR = 0x2E8    INT = 7

Is there any way I can tell BNU about these parameters, so that
I can say BNU /L3:9600 (for example) and it will know to use
the right I/O addr and int number?

-Mike
From: dalew@twiki.UUCP (Dale Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Worldblazer Configuration
Date: 18 Nov 92 07:15:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: twiki.4cBFuB2w165w
Organization: Wafflemania Unlimited - Portland, OR USA

Ralph Sims <ralphs@remote.halcyon.com> writes:

> benchmarks don't indicate a significant difference at higher speeds. 
> Depending on system load, I'm getting ~1300cps with uucico using PEP and
> about 1000cps using v.32bis (note: TURN COMPRESSION OFF WITH UUCICO).

  I see upwards of 1200 - 1300 cps here using v.32bis and don't turn
anything except MNP 5 off.  I do seem to have a problem using 7 windows
though, but haven't figured out why yet.  I also lock my modem (16.8K HST
Dual Standard) at 38400 and have a 16550AFN on that port (as you must).

> uuxqt        : rnews, rmail, greg-rm, please, mv

  Hmm, I don't have this in my static file - will have to investigate...

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From: mvdl@et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: X.400 protocol in waffle ?
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:40:53 +0100
Organization: TU-Delft, dpt of Electrical Engineering

In article <Bxy99I.5sE@cs.psu.edu>, 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*...

Actually I wondered about X.400 protocol TO waffle-sites... Would waffle
handle it ? (not now, I'm sure, but in the future ?).

And perhaps a X.400 style adress-query when writing a message ?

Perhaps what I want to know is: will usenet follow the x.400 protocol on the
internet ?

Michel.

> 
>   Bill
From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: waffle and compression utils
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:47:03 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

liam%alehaus.uucp@brewich.hou.tx.us (liam) writes:

->         I am running waffle 1.65 and was wondering if there is any 
-> problem with using HD compression software with it (ie stacker) as I am 
-> starting to run low on space and can't afford a new HD. 

Not to start another "I'll explain Stacker/Double Disk/SStor to you
debate," but...

In my experience  HD compression software works fine with Waffle.  I
ran for 6 months using DR DOS 6.0 and the SStor that came with it.

Using SStor on my news partition, I did not get {2|3|4}:1 compression 
as promised by the docs and/or reported by the stats program.  
I got only ~1.2-1.5:1 compression.

I decided the slow down of disk operations (as files are
compressed/decompressed), not being able to use "standard" disk utils
on the compressed drive and the conflicts of non-waffle programs with
DR Dos were not worth the hassle and returned to MS Dos 5.0



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