HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Transferring mails to a newsgroup
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 18:20:19 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

-> eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:
-> 
-> > zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
-> > 
-> > -> In theory this should work.  
-> >       ^^^^^^
-> > Yes, but theory is not proving out in practice.
-> > 
-> In practice it does work (on my system).  
-> 
-> In theory it will work on other systems. :)

And in practice is does not work on my system.  Shall we write 
"The Journal of Irreproducible Results?"

Since it does work on your system, would you mind posting the
appropriate sections of your  ~\system\usenet and ~\system\aliases
and any other files you have changed for mail-to-newsgroups to work.

Thanks
   John




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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: complaints
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:49:18 CST
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN

ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:

> donh@shakala.rahul.net (Don Hackler) writes:
> 
> >chalk@lablues.UUCP (Greg french) writes:
> 
> >> flame. If it bothers you that much, just list the message number and we 
> 
> >Because the message number on _your_ system is NOT the same as the
> >message number on any other system...
> 
> He may have meant Message-Id, in which case it WOULD be the same,
> right?

Yes, it would... but I have never seen a Message-Id of "653".
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From: tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: complaints
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:39:14 PST
Organization: Yucca Flats II in Felton, CA

As regards

>Message-ID: <De63TB4w165w@mertwig.UUCP>

> In reference to Message-ID: <i00ZTB3w165w@lablues.UUCP>

I abstain.


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From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: uucico and a whole lot of other stuff...
Date: 9 Nov 92 09:02:46 GMT
Reply-To: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org
Organization: The Red Headed League; Lawton, Ok

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

> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
> 
> > A program?  You can do it with a single command line.
> > 
> > Hacker, indeed.  Humph!
> > 
> > :-) :-) :-)
> 
> Peh.  I just [*******Censored******************].... works for me.
> 
The idea is that if your a hacker you will figure out how to post to
alt.hackers, not to tell someone how to do it or to ask someone how to
do it.  Thats part of the reason that articles which show the Sender: as
news@rutgers.edu are cancelled.
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: rich@grayhawk.rent.com (Richard R. Harms)
Subject: unix waffle, and sysman clean
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:52:12 GMT
Organization: Grayhawk - Des Moines Public Access Unix - 515/277-6753

Machine: Macintosh IIx, running A/UX 3.0, and waffle 1.65 ...

I just noticed that when doing a sysman clean, the following happened:
% sysman clean
sysman: Removing directories from purged users
user ".." no longer exists
sysman: 1 orphaned directories were found

It seemed to think that '..' was a user ... fortunately it didn't try doing
a recursive delete of '..' or anything really harmful, but it seems to be a
minor bug in sysman anyway. Anyone else noticed this? Only reason I'd really
even call this a bug, is that it didn't pick up the special directory '.' but
found '..' ... had it at least been consistant, I probably would've just
ignore it.

Also, does a list of known bugs (and perhaps possible patches even) for 1.65 
exist anywhere?

-rh
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From: system@memalph.UUCP (Woody Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle 1.65 and FAX
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:31:46 MST
Organization: Memory Alpha BBS - Phoenix, AZ -

I just purchased a V.32bis modem with send/receive fax capabilites. All 
functionality is there, but I need to know how to make the fax available 
when waffle is running. I know that 1.65 (which I am running) has hooks 
to allow this but I need to know how others are doing this. What fax 
software do you have (I have Winfax pro) and what changes did you make to 
your static file? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Memory Alpha BBS (memalph.UUCP), Phoenix, AZ   
                    -= The Sum of All Knowledge =-
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: UUENCODEd file - Now what?
From: bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca (Brad Crockett)
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 15:42:35 PST
Distribution: vi
Organization: 'Happy' in Duncan, BC, Canada
Keywords: UUENCODE UUUNENCODE BINARY ZIP DOWNLOAD
Summary: How do I unencode a zipped binary?

I've downloaded a binary (CWEXP101.ZIP) from Halcyon.com.  It
appears to be part of a mail message.  How do I get it out of
there - or have I used the incorrect procedure to get the file?

I did check the Waffle docs on this and I couldn't find any
reference to this.

Brad Crockett, Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca           :->
From: rad@railnet.nshore.ORG (Rick DeMattia)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Memory while logged in.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 21:02:49 EST
Organization: Railnet BBS +1 216 786 0476

zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

> With DOS low and nothing special set, I had 290k.  With DOS High, and 
> a couple of other minor things I had 315k, and now with my most recent
> changes I have 390k free while logged in.
DOS 3.3 on an Xt - 323976 reported by mem.  (usenet about 160
groups). This is Waffle/DOS 1.65.

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: Forbidden by Congress?
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:33:41 GMT

In article <ESCHWART.92Nov5223644@netcom.Netcom.COM> eschwart@netcom.Netcom.COM (Eric Schwartz) writes:
|First of all, what is the meaning of the "Forbidden by Act of Congress"

It's Waffle humor.

|is this something that's built into the source code

Yes.

  Bill
From: spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: argh! leftover .D batched news files in my spuul
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 21:07:41 EST
Organization: Sonic Interzone, Atonal Hoodlum Subversion, TO Ont. 416-276-0552

Seems in the last few days i've been getting .D files left in my hosts'
spool dir without .X or anything else left over.

Its compressed news, but I dont know how to uncompress it by hand to see
what I'm losing, due to the #!cunbatch line at the top. (And when
removed, compress doesnt like to uncompress it either, says something
about Microsoft! (probably stuck somewhere in command.com)).

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.

Anyone else have this trouble? No errors show in my logs or anything.

/kc



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of American pop culture, and we live in a sad society that tolrates it."
                                                      - NIMROD
From: spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: aliasing a.b.w->c.b.w considered harmful
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 19:30:13 EST
Organization: Sonic Interzone, Atonal Hoodlum Subversion, TO Ont. 416-276-0552

vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:

> I know you guys are planning some letter bombing to educate folks or
> something, but you all know that alt groups never die anyway because
> Bruce Becker newgroups 'em anyway, right?

Blahahah! I met him recently at the Negativland show here. Mebbe I could
ask him personally to stop newgrouping silly things like alt.bbs.waffle.
:)

> If we (the c.b.w. admins) don't carry a.b.w., and if we don't answer anything
> in it, it WILL die...even if you have to specifically exclude it from the
> list of groups you'll accept and pass on.
> 
> I simply ignore a.b.w. totally and only answer c.b.w. posts.  I'm too lazy
> to fix up cross-posts I reply to that appear in c.b.w. :-)

Someone should just post weekly (or daily) to the newsgroup that its
useless and closed down.

Mebbe we can attempt to get it moderated? And not let anything through?

PS - whoever suggested increasing my Xmit buffer to get UUCICO working
without -x6 was right. Most excellent!

(Too bad for my fido users who will have to see a fullscreen dumped
before their keys get through - any way to make BNU dump the rest of the
buffer (ie NOT SEND IT) when... um. No. That wouldnt work - the SOFTWARE
has to issue that command, since it knows whats important and whats not
when dumping. QuickBBS did this, SuperBBS does not.

Of course, its only a matter of weeks before I dump this FidoKiddiKrap
totally.)

Precipitated Question: how do I get fidowankers to STOP calling my
system and asking how to do files and generally wasting real usenet
users time? Change the ph#?

/kc


Ken Chasse - Sonic Interzone, Toronto Ont. * Inet: sizone!spooge@ee.ryerson.ca
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of American pop culture, and we live in a sad society that tolrates it."
                                                      - NIMROD
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: 'newgroup' control messages
Keywords: newgroup control file message waffle bbs
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 19:02:49 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

taz@momad.UUCP (Sysop) writes:

> >> In starting a new news.group, does WAFFLE 1.65 support the control-file
> >> 'newgroup'???

Wait a minute. Do you mean you want to originate a new newsgroup
from your Waffle site? If so, ya can't do that I don't think.
I first interpreted your statement as meaning, does Waffle process
incoming 'newgroup' control messages.

> >Nope. Ya gotta manually put the new newsgroups in a forum file.
> 
> How do I do that????????

To do that, you edit your /waffle/usenet file and add the new newsgroup.


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From: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle ISO 8859-1 Patches available via anonymous FTP
Summary: Patch now available via anonymous FTP
Keywords: ISO8859-1 Waffle Patch
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 12:58:28 MET
Organization: The Blues Family

To whom it may concern:   :-)

The patches for DOS Waffle doing the conversion between ISO 8859-1
and the codepages 437/850 is now available via anonymous FTP from:

  ftp.th-darmstadt.de:pub/machines/ms-dos/networking/waffle/iso*.zip

Two files reside there:

  isopatch.zip            binaries only
  isosrc.zip              sources only

Thanks to the TH-Darmstadt ftp-admin!   8-)

        Kosta


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From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: complaints
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:32:14 GMT
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois

In <i00ZTB3w165w@lablues.UUCP> chalk@lablues.UUCP (Greg french) writes:
>Why does everyone quote a 30 line message just to use it as an example to 
>flame. If it bothers you that much, just list the message number and we 
>can look back if we really care. Please don't present us with an endless 
>parade of quoted messages.
>                            Greg French
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>chalk@lablues.uucp<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

	In reference to message number 397 I don't know!!!

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From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Transferring mails to a newsgroup
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 00:27:30 PST
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

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

-> <<<about his "Kludge-o-rama" deleted>>>
-> 
-> One final note.
-> 
-> In order to test this puppy, I have to write out the message to send/post
-> as a normal text file, then mail it via the command line:
-> 
-> rmail rcvrlist < sometext
-> 
-> If you do it from the mail prompt in Waffle, it goes off into the ether,
-> probably looking for demerol. Mail coming into the system from outside
-> works just fine --as does posting to the group (send to moderator).

Ahhh.....

That *IS* the problem we are having,  local mail to be gatewayed
into a newsgroup doesn't make it.




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From: ahm@spatula.rent.com (Andreas Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Import utility (was Re: Automatic User Setup)
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:31:48 GMT
Reply-To: ahm@spatula.rent.com (Andreas Meyer)
Organization: A kitchen utensil somewhere in central New Jersey

alanj@ibmpcug.co.uk (Superuser) writes:

> Thanks for the help everyone.  I have one response that may
> solve my real problem which I didn't explain very well in
> the above article.
> That is that I am looking for an easy way of adding a number
> of users to the Waffle PASSWORD file.
> 
> Creating the Home directory and reindexing the Passowrd file
> can all be done very easily inside a BATch file but adding
> data to the database without using Waffle appears not to be
> quite so simple.
> 
> Roy Silvernail responded to my original request with an offer
> to help write such a utility and when finished if anyone
> would like further details please email me.

Wait, I think someone already did.

If my memory serves me correctly, about a month or two ago,
someone (Mark Bramwell?) from a university posted to this newsgroup 
asking how he could create about a thousand logins for his Waffle.
As I recall, there was some sort of import utility written, and
it sounds like what you need.

Does anyone know where this utility might have been archived?

Cheers,
Andy
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From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Memory usage / CD command
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 19:32:04 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

Alright, what gives? I've got a C program I am trying to run
within Waffle that generates QEMM memory errors, but only under
wierd circumstances.

I run Waffle under DV386 with QEMM, obviously. When I first log in and
do a MEMORY command, it reports 326184. I can run my program just fine
as many times as I want to. Dandy. But if I do a CD to another
directory, and then do a MEMORY, it reports 322360! And my program no
longer runs, rather it generates a QEMM error that asks me if I want to
reboot or terminate.

Why does a CD command take up nearly 4k of memory??? And what the heck
is it doing that blocks my program from running??? Even 322360 should
be PLENTY of memory for the program to run. Hell, I can run the same
program outside of Waffle in a 128K DOS window!!


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From: Sean D. Ackley <su@prag.com>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: RN updates JOIN, but...?
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 14:59:53 PST
Reply-To: su@prag.com (Sean D. Ackley)
Distribution: world
Organization: PRA Group International (510-732-9895)

1: Waffle 1.65's RN command will automatically change a users' join file
to reflect deletions from the /waffle/system/usenet file, but why will
it not reflect any additions? (or how can I notify users of new
conferences automatically, without putting it in the news?)

2: How can I save files (via the :w filename  command) to other
directories on my system.  i.e.   :w c:\temp.lst, :w p:\temp.lst  .

thank you.

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: [XENIX] Waf 1.64 /etc/waffle.ttyi1A
From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 16:16:48 GMT
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac

In article <Bx430A.87r@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

>In article <1992Nov02.170902.4496@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
>|The user hasn't given me specifics on the error, only that Waffle seems to
>|be expecting an environmental value that it can't find...

>Well, if the error is:
>Environment variable WAFFLE must point to configuration file

>then the problem is that Waffle can't open the static file.  You probably have
>it protected so that the bbs user can't read it.

[AAAAAAARG!]
[Did you ever have one of those days?]
[expletives deleted]

I don't know why the hell I never thought of permissions as the culprit :-(

[can I plead Pressing Tasks of World-Shaking Importance?]

...now back to our regularly scheduled _real_ problems :-)

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From: donal@brewich.hou.tx.us (Donal)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Transferring mails to a newsgroup
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 18:40:56 CST
Organization: The Brewers' Witch BBS, +1 713 272 7350, Brewich.Hou.TX.US

kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle) writes:

> Martin Welk <mw@pandora.mei.open.de> writes:
> 
> > Well, I tried it and the following happened: a news header
> > containing Subject etc. was created and posted to my testgroup. But
> > the message body was lost !
> >
> > I use Waffle 1.65, my external editor is simply called "EDITOR",
> > it's distributed with the Topaz 3.0 database packet for Turbo
> > Pascal and it works good enough for "normal" mails and news, so I
> > don't see why it doesn't do it's work with this purpose.
> > 
> > I tried to use a the Oak Hill Vi (5.6) and the editor distributed
> > with MS-DOS 5.0, but they don't work either.
> 
> It's not just you. I was able to duplicate the situation you describe
> using Qedit as an external editor.
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp

I am using QEdit to write this, and I have Larry's wfs-list going to a 
newsgroup on my board, and posts to it going back out to wfs-list, and the 
ONLY problem I have had is that at first WFS 2.0 at larry's end refused to
recognize me as a sender because although the address it had as a member
of the mailing list was wfs-list@brewich.hou.tx.us, all mail sent by my system
to the list was tagged as being from news@brewich.hou.tx.us. I believe that
Larry has fixed this now, and all is well!


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From: tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: FOSSIL driver & Windows 3.1
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 01:31:24 -0500
Organization: Lost In Space

In <7cq4TB3w165w@spectrx.saigon.com> nguyen@spectrx.saigon.com (nguyen duong) writes:
>tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) writes:
>
>> My setup here is similar.  My RUN.BAT loads X00 when it starts and unloads 
>> it when it ends.  This way, the FOSSIL is always available to Waffle
>> whether I run it from DOS (for speed) or Windows (for multitasking), and
>> it's always removed from memory when I change from one environment to the
>> other.
>
>Sound is good! How do you remove it at thend.

X00 will un-install itself if you call it with no parameters.  My RUN.BAT
looks like this:

X00 e r=4096 t=4096 0=com1 1=com2
XU LOCK:1:19200
[normal RUN.BAT stuff]
XU LOCK:1:OFF
X00

I don't know anything about BNU, but I assume it would have a similar
capability.

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: [XENIX] Waf 1.64 /etc/waffle.ttyi1A
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:55:40 GMT

In article <Bx430A.87r@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <1992Nov02.170902.4496@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
>Well, if the error is:
>Environment variable WAFFLE must point to configuration file
>
>then the problem is that Waffle can't open the static file.  You probably have
>it protected so that the bbs user can't read it.
>

the docs also say that you need the static file in /etc/waffle, regardless of
what the WAFFLE variable is (I checked the code too...).  If your /etc/waffle
is not a copy or link to the real static file, you'll get the same message.

(this one's marked by Tom as a 'to-be-cleaned-up' item under unix in either
the source notes or unix.doc, I forget)>

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     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
    Running Linux/C-news/trn/Elm/Smail - we don't need no steenkin' MS-DOS