HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wjchu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Wen-Jeng Chu (NE U780105) TEL. 715131-4870)
Subject: Awaiting remote id.
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:06:24 GMT


 Dear netters:

     I use UUcico in Waffle to login my SunOS workstation.

 I can see the prompt at the workstation but the screen appears:

            -----------------------------------------------
             Awaiting remote identification
             rmsg: TIMEOUT, no ^P
             Startup timed out waiting for remote system
             - 0 connection(s) made -
            -----------------------------------------------

 Would you please tell me what happens & what to do ?? ( Thanks!! )

      And the reason why I use Waffle is wanting to DownLoad the letters 

 in NEWs to my PC via a modem. In addition to UUcico, what else programs 

 should I use?

      Thank you very much !


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: MODEM barf or How to get connected speed with locked port
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:18:08 GMT

In article <wmNPXB14w165w@slic.cts.com> mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:
|I use a Telebit T3000 and I know it reports the locked speed and
|the connection speed.  Is there any way to get waffle to take
|advantage of the info reported by the modem?

The ZyXEL 1496 can report only the connection speed if you tell it ATX5;
perhaps the T3000 has a similar option?  (with ATX5, I get result codes like
CONNECT 16800/ARQ or CONNECT 14400 or ...)

  Bill
From: ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Mail encryption programm for WAFFLE?
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:16:59 GMT
Organization: Mala's Refuge, Montreal, Canada

In <sDFoXB7w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

>Where can we ftp/mail-serv RIPEM from?


	Hmmm, well, I don't remember off hand, will have to locate the 
information again and let you all know.  


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From: rwilms@kottan.bo.open.de (Rolf K. Wilms)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: looking for additional tools for waffle
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 00:53:36 GMT
Organization: ROWI's private system

Hi All!

I just installed Waffle yesterday. I've found a very nice news/mail reader named Helldiver,
running under MS-Windows which replaces the built-in reader. Everything seems to work fine.

Now, I'm looking for some additional tools for the following tasks:

- forwarding all messages from my news-messagebase which are addressed to me to a local 
  newsgroup or my mailbox

- killing news fitting some regular expressions

- forwarding news fitting some regular expressions

- creating newsgroups on my system, if there are messages in the junk-folder and moving them to
  the approriate folder

- replacing the special german characters with their ASCII replacements

Please tell me, if, where and how I can obtain such tools. Thank you.

Ciao,
	Rolf

-- 
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Franziska-44a
4300 Essen 1
Germany
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: ZipNews Door for Waffle in BETA Release
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:22:50 GMT

In article <oPLRXB2w165w@slic.cts.com> mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:
|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.

By the time you read this, znews093.zip should be in ~/ibm/bbs on hogbbs.

Login as uuanon, no password needed (yes, that means you need another entry
in /waffle/uucp/scripts, but you need one anyway, because:) but you need to
wait for "in:--in:--in:--in:--in:" or so - there's a long intro that you
have to get past.  814-238-9633, v.32bis, ZyXEL 16.8 .

  Bill
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: hotopp@ops1.bwi.wec.com (Danimal)
Subject: NN-165.ZIP
Summary: Where can I find this.
Keywords: NNTP
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:30:09 GMT

Could someone please tell me where I might find the NNTP version of WAFFLE?  
The file name is NN-165.ZIP I believe.  I'm looking for either a 9600+ bbs 
or an FTP site (I'd need the directory info since I can't ftp directly).
				Thanks in advance,
					Dan
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
Organization: NullNet r.y.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:45:52 GMT
Keywords: Unix version (Xenix SysV), Smail-3.1.27, Waf165

vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes:
>
>>vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>>>1. The unix hostname and waffle systemname are both victrola.sea.wa.us
>>>2. I use wafalias to alias the waffle-only folks via mailin (no changes)
>>Don't we have a possibility for a "race" situation here?
>>Say, you have a shell used whose login is "foo".
>>Then comes a BBS newuser who registrates with the username "foo".
>>How is this situation handled?
>
>it's not right now since wafalias assumes that people with the same username
>in the shell and in waffle are the same person...
>
I just got email from someone saying that Waffle would tell that the account
is already in use.

>there are other waffle sites out there under unix...
>what do YOU folks do ???

Presently, I give no shell access to people here, just Waffle. And I have
Waffle set up to have different hostname.

..Wolf
From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: UUCICO for Windows and OS/2
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:16:03 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

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

> tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Tom Salzmann) writes:
> 
> > free.  Furthermore, if the entire source code is given to me, I will
> > pay the $120.00 fee (or whatever it is) to Tom Dell for the source and
> > I will still make the OS/2 version available to him only for 
> > distribution with the Waffle package.  I want nothing out of this but
> > the ability to run this BBS as a native OS/2 program.
> 
> You should be discussing this with Tom, not us. If you send him the $120,
> I suspect that you'll have bought the source, with the exceptions as are
> noted in the docs.                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Exactly.  So what good is the source to the man if he doesn't get 100% of
them!?  How is he expected to port over to OS/2 (or Windows) unless he
gets them all?

Why is Tom ignoring over 2,000,000 users of OS/2, and untold millions
of Windows users?

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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: UUCICO for Windows and OS/2
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:13:40 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:

> > You should be discussing this with Tom, not us. If you send him the $120,
> > I suspect that you'll have bought the source, with the exceptions as are
> > noted in the docs.                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Exactly.  So what good is the source to the man if he doesn't get 100% of
> them!?  How is he expected to port over to OS/2 (or Windows) unless he
> gets them all?

If I remember, you can buy the dos sources, and request the uucp portions
that were copyrighted by another author. The docs mention it.

> Why is Tom ignoring over 2,000,000 users of OS/2, and untold millions
> of Windows users?

Perhaps it doesn't interest him. I don't know. The answer to these and the
other questions you have isn't here. Why don't you send land-based mail to
him and see what his reponse is? You may get the agreement of everyone who
posts here, but the only one who can actually transact with you is Tom.

---
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
From: nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl (Felipe Fodriquez)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Mail encryption programm for WAFFLE?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:36:40 GMT
Organization: Hack-Tic Network Foundation
NewsSoftware: Rnf 0.73b

crespin@nadir.uucp (Rudy Crespin) writes:

>Look into Public Key encryption. There are two _FREE_ programs out there that
>do PK encryption: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and RSAREF bases Internet Privacy
>Enhanced Mail (RIPEM). They are both available for just about any machine you 
>can think of. They allow you to send someone you have never met encrypted 
>messages without you getting together and exchanging passwords. This is done
>by a Public-Private Key pair. You give away your public key to everyone. They
>use it to encrypt messages to you. You use your private key to decrypt the
>messages. 


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.

For more information about PgpIt, please consult with:

garfield@maas-neotek.hacktic.nl


_______________________________________________________________
     Felipe Rodriquez             Hacktic Network Foundation
 nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl       Networking for the masses !
From: dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: HELP: Status line disappears in Waffle for DOS
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:39:13 GMT
Organization: I mistook my BBS for a hat

>Does anyone else have the problem whereby the top status line disappears when
>the screen is scrolled. The status bar is reclaimed when the screen is cleared
>by the data on the status line is lost and whatever text happened to be there
>is kept from scrolling.

>This is extremely annoying as I have no idea who is every online. My rumaging
>through the source code has turned up nothing other than it appears Tom is not
>trapping all the necessary DOS/BIOS calls required to keep the status line on
>the top of the screen. This problem make me feel like re-writing the DOS.C
>file from scratch using only Borland's CONIO functions....

No, it is not as simple as that. If you did this, anyone with a CGA
(and certain other kinds of video cards) would kill you. CONIO is incredibly
slow under those circumstances. What we have now (a mix) is a compromise
that's the fastest on average for all systems. But it still isn't perfect on
all systems (ie, yours.)

--Tom
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: gbrand@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Graham Brand)
Subject: SLIP
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:04:39 GMT

Another simple question.... What is SLIP? I think that it stands for
serial line interface protocol but what is its use? If one already
has Waffle and/or UUPC why would one need SLIP?

Cheers,
-Graham Brand
From: bheess@mcws.fidonet.org (Brian L. Heess)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle on a LAN
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:39:56 PST
Reply-To: comp.bbs.waffle
Distribution: world
Organization: midnight computer wiring society - Tujunga, CA, USA

tom@TaterTot.com (Tom Lemos) writes:

> Anyone running Waffle on a LAN and would care to enlighten me
> as to how do I get Waffle to recognize the news and spool directories?
> Having a second STATIC file seems to be the answer, but I seem
> to be missing something.

Each basically needs it's own static file.  I am doing it here, two nodes
on one machine under DV (the BBS machine), and two running on this node,
on a NetWare 3.11 LAN.

> Anyone care to enlighten me? My huge LAN only consists of two
> computers, all I want to do is to be able to use one of them, when
> a user is on the other...

I don't exactly understand your problem.

-Brian


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: A new twist to multiple waffles (well maybe)
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:48:32 GMT
Organization: The CServer at the Z*NET International Global News Gateway

Just a note on what we have done here over the last few month with our
DOS based waffle system.
 
We currently have several nodes running under Novell Lite, and Waffle
works fine if you follow the DOC's that come with it ie add the entries
to your static file, a static file for each node etc..
 
However I have gone a step further and increased the processing time for 
local logins by installing waffle on each node as well as the main comms
server (this node). This is a simple process and have done the following
 
 Node                  Files                           Common on Server
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 1                      run1.bat                       
                        static1
                        all the waffle /directories    
                                                      password/files/news
 2                      run2.bat
                        static2
                        all the waffle /directories
                                                      password/files/news
 3 onwards ditto
 
 In the run.bats I have included the line normaly in the autoexec.bat
 set waffle=c:\waffle\static1 (or whatever the node number is).
 
 In the static files I have pathed then local bar password,news and files
 the server node has the spool dir to itself.
 
 This also allows you to rename your organ: line to identify the 
 node people are using as well, ie this node says I am on the 
 Cserver (the dedicated uucp node) while the others refer to local
 logins ..
 
 
 Not only has this increased the processing time but I have found no
 slow down even at v32bis local and uucp connects. However when I ran
 the same version of waffle with multiple static files I found that the
 uucp connects to me were down by over 200cps because of the network
 delays.
 
 I hope this helps someone out there.


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From: donal@brewich.hou.tx.us (Donal)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Twincom 14.4k V.32bis and Waffle!!!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:41:31 CST
Organization: The Brewers' Witch BBS, +1 713 272 7350, Brewich.Hou.TX.US

As indicated, I have just bought a Twincom 14400 V.32bis FaxModem. I am
using BNU, but I do have a copy of X00... I have several questions/problems...

1) What locking should I use? 38400? 57600? 19200? Should I lock both
the staick file LOCKED variable, and the BNU command line? What should I
set the static file SPEED to?

2) Will waffle ever report the correct speed again, or is it always
gonna say CONNECT 300???

3) Is there any way to use Quick Link II's RecFax background fax recieve
to catch incoming faxes while allowing Waffle to have the data
transmissions???

4) How should my init string be set? And should I mess with all the
MNP/V.42/LAP-M stuff, or just be happy with the default settings?

All help would be appreciated, and could you duplicate any responses to
email or I might miss it. Posts move pretty fast here...


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(Internet) donal@brewich.hou.tx.us  (Work) bill%pssi@brewich.hou.tx.us
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(SCA) Ld. Donal Dubh, IC of Dun Bruadar, B of the Stargate, K of Ansteorra
From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: \spool\unbatch -> ramdisk ???
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 17:30:29 PST
Organization: Muth Valley Bell  (619/390-SLIC BBS; V32bis)

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

> Has anyone had any success with dos waffle aliasing the
> \spool\unbatch directory to a ramdisk?
> 
> I tried using MD-DOS 5 alias, and a 1.5Mb ramdrive, but it wouldn't
> work.
> 
> (My feedsite feeds me compressed 500k newsbatches)

I've used a RAMDRIVE for /spool on both a 4.77 XT and now my
386DX.  It worked fine.  In fact, as soon as I get 4 more Meg of
Ram, I will go back to using /spool on the RADMDRIVE.  Saves a
whole bunch of disk chruning and does process news a tad faster.

--
  Mike, San Diego, CA USA     Public Key Available
  mikey@slic.cts.com    GEnie: SLIC    Ham: WB6WUI
From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 23:35:50 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: 1776 Enterprises, Sudbury MA

frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> > I don't understand this entire thread.  What purpose is served by taking 
> > the phone off-hook that isn't better served by simply turning off the 
> > modem's auto-answer capability?
> 
> Image, me lad, *image*.  If you want to appear as a reliable service, you
> can't let your users think your system has crashed with a incessantly
> ringing line (while processing news, et al) -- this is the purpose of
> a busy signal.

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?

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From: system@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: command 'me' in waffle 1.64
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:20:22 PST
Reply-To: system@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

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 ?
>

That's a command short for MEMORY.

It usually just prints out stuff about the system, and then usually hangs
it to all hell. Heh...

__________________________________________________________________________
   |       /         |\
   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N            [ system@cyberden.sf.ca.us ]
From: daniel drucker <xyzzy@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: command 'me' in waffle 1.64
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:45:50 EST
Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY

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 ?
From: cutter@gloster.via.mind.org (cutter)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 08:55:56 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Gordian Knot, Gloster,GA

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

I run waffle to be an automated mail/news servant getting it so I don't have to
manual access someone else's board; but, when I used to call in, if it did not
answer on ringing I would presume it was either off line or out of order.
When it was busy was when I would "attack dial" waiting for the no-good
razzer-frazzer to hang-up so I would be the first in line.

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                                     to the person who
                                     doesn't have to do them.
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From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Using a RAM disk for unbatching.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 03:08:50 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

I'm considering setting up a RAM disk to speed up unbatching news. I
question how to accomplish the feat, as the only reference to a path
I can find that uuxqt might use is the spool: parameter in the static
file. I don't want the entire spool on the RAM disk, maybe just /unbatch.

Another thought, is that really worth doing? Or am I better off using
a disk cache to speed things up? Ideas from those of you doing these
kinds of things would be much appreciated.


--
Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:32:31 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

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?

I tried telling my users that 'till I was blue in the face.

I gave up and added offhook routines to my processing batch files.

Now, I don't get voice calls asking me if my system's crashed, or
have to read stuff on other local bbs's saying that my bbs is
broken, cos it won't answer whenever someone tries to ring....

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