HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Re: Another WWIV Question...
Keywords: WWIV multi node line
Date: 29 Aug 92 07:57:15 GMT
Organization: Movement to Ban or Re-Regulate the CABLE MONOPOLIES

In article <1992Aug28.031750.23443@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cnanayak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chevan Nanayakkara @ Nyx) writes:
>
>One more question.  How many people have tried the Internet <=> WWIVnet
>gateway for mail?  How long on average does it take for mail to get where
>it's going (I'm sure that's limited by the WWIVnet side with the hops and
>all)?  I'm curious since I sent a letter to myself a week ago and it still
>hasn't arrived.

And a lot of the delay happens on the UUCP side.  A lot of the gateways
around are two or more hops off of the internet.  I have heard stories of
a single day transit from CA to the East coast and back, while in the same
week a message I sent took about five days.  As I was checking out the
header, I noticed that it sat at a UUCP site for a few days.  Probably
a link went down or something.  

I am going to be testing the WWCP gateway software out here in the SF
Bay Area as soon as I get a node number from WWIVnet.  As of now though,
it seems like the quickest gateway for this area (CA) is the Alaska site.
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
From: pritch@rbdc.wsnc.org (David Pritchard)
Subject: Re: USA Today\NYSE newsfeeds
Organization: Red Barn Data Center Public Access Unix, Winston-Salem, NC.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:09:00 GMT

jmiksich@iowegia.uucp (John Miksich) writes:

>I am running a Spitfire Bulletin board and would like to make 
>available to my callers some service like USA Today or NYSE.  I 

>1) How to get ahold of USA Today or NYSE staff who are in charge 
>of the services.
>2) Approximately how much will this run me in $ a month?
>3) Is there a program out there that will feed the data into a 
>Spitfire BBS or will I have to have a conversion program made?
I operate a Wildcat board and was getting USA Today until recently.
My source was Boardwatch Magazine bbs in Denver. You can contact 
staff there via Internet, jrickard@boardwatch.com or (preferably)
gfunk@boardwatch.com, Jack Rickard is editor, Gary Funk handles the
USA Today and NYSE accounts.
Cost is $25/month minimum, with additional charges based on your
paying subscriber base. For a no-fee board, the minimum applies.
The dialup number for Boardwatch BBS is 303-973-4222.


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From: david@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: What distinguishes "good" BBS software from "bad"?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 14:10:41 PDT
Organization: Greenwire Consulting, Palo Alto, CA, USA

What is the "best" BBS to use for a Special Interest Group?  I have to
set one up, and the software I have is The Major BBS (Galacticomm.)  It
seems reasonable, and complete, but I don't know enough to know whether
it is good stuff or not.  I don't even know what questions to ask!  So,
how do I distinguish "good" from "bad" in BBS software?  Is The Major BBS
considered "good?"  And for a Special Interest Group BBS, where people
have to pay to get access (non-payers get very limited access), what
features should the BBS software have?


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From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Re: USA Today\NYSE newsfeeds
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:38:50 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

>jmiksich@iowegia.uucp (John Miksich) writes:
>: 
>: I am running a Spitfire Bulletin board and would like to make 
>: available to my callers some service like USA Today or NYSE...
...

>If you have UUCP you can pick up a Clarinet feed (UPI news, Newsbytes,
>Street Price Report) from a local system that carries it or from a
>commercial news hub site (like Msen or UUNET or PSI) that gives feeds. 
>Cost depends on the number of users you have.  No need for a leased line,
>an ordinary dialup modem will do just fine, and it looks just like an
>ordinary Usenet feed (except that you have only limited rights as to what
>you can do with it.)

Any idea of what the costs might run for, say, 50 users, 100 users? ? ?

Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
From: uufido@ccu.umanitoba.ca (UMCC Fido-Net Liaison)
Subject: Re: BBS's for Linux
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:53:58 GMT


Just a quick question...  I tried to ftp Linux from one of the sites
but all I found was a whole bunch of files strewn over a whole bunch of
directories.  Is there somewhere I can ftp Linux in nice, neat archives?
 
Thanks!
 
Chris O'Neill

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From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Help with Bink and 14.4k modem
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:25:10 +1700
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

I just switched modems to an external 14.4k V.32BIS/V.42BIS, V.42, V.32 etc...
and wonder if anyone could tell me what I should set Binkley 2.50 up with as
far as MaxBaud, and ModemInit String.  Should I uncomment one of the PEP/HST
lines in Binkley.cfg?  How about the baud locking - should it be down?  I wish
to use X00.sys (V124).  *ANY* help would be extremely appreciated and you will
experience utter happiness by helping me out (hehehehe).

HELP, PLEASE!
From: krc@ecl.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Ezycom Doors.
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:59:17 EDT
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University

Are there any anonymous FTP sites that have some decent game doors?  If you
know of any please reply via E-Mail, thanks!

Keith Connors
krc@eclx.psu.edu
Xref: sparky comp.bbs.misc:740 comp.dcom.modems:12684
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Subject: Re: Another WWIV Question...
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:29:14 GMT
Organization: Movement to Ban or Re-Regulate the CABLE MONOPOLIES

In article <1992Aug26.015118.3460@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cnanayak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chevan Nanayakkara @ Nyx) writes:

>You wouldn't have any idea where I can get that mod on the Net via FTP?  If
>not would someone out there who has it be willing to mail it to me?
>
I may be mistaken, but I think I saw that MOD two days ago on the
WWIV Mod Net.  All I saw was the title during my newscan, and after I aborted
the text and went on to the next sub, it dawned on me that it said Multiline
mod for 4.21.

You may want to check your local WIVnetted boards for the Mod sub.
/s (as if that works)

       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.misc
From: skinner@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Skinner Tom)
Subject: zamfields bbs list ???
Summary: wanting to know about any internet bbs list
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:55:01 GMT
Keywords: list bbs

I was wanting to know if anyone has a current zamfields bbs list or if he still
produces them.. the last i had was dated 12/8/91 or so. or if he doesn't producethem does anyone else produce an internet bbs list ??          

			Thanks in advance
					skinner@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
Subject: Re: FTP Site for FIDONET Nodelist (latest)
Date: 29 Aug 92 22:53:56 +1700
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

In article <BtrKyo.F74@cs.psu.edu>, fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> In article <1992Aug29.102127.1491@lub001.lamar.edu> lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
> |Here is the scoop on the latest nodelist:
> |
> |FTP to:
> |M2XENIX.PSG.COM
> |Login anonymous using your complte e-mail address as password.
> |cd/pub/fidonet/nodelist
> |do a "TYPE I"
> 
> You probably don't want to do this, if it's not archived, which your
> instructions don't seem to imply that it is.  If you're on a UNIX machine,
> it should be OK, but if you're ftp'ing to anything else, doing the "TYPE I"
> will make the transferred file garbage.

I happen to be on a DOS B server connecting to a VAX/VMS machine.  I have
the complete nodelist per the above instructions and it is parseable and not
garbage. However, that is a unix maine.  perhaps I should leave it up to
the person ftping to decide how they want to handle the transfer?  

>  Bill                       

73's - N5UYH (Grady)
From: cowan@aqua.ocunix.on.ca (D. Cowan (Postmaster))
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: switching to fossil drive (how?)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 12:10:40 GMT
Organization: The Aquarium, Ottawa, Ontario

vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:

> I have a v32bis/v42bis modem due to be delivered by the end of the week
> and would like to know how to push that puppy at 9600 or above from Waffle
> in particular, and from ProcommPlus also.
> 
> Can somebody fill be in with what magic incantation to set up BNU with
> a 14.4KB internal modem (16550 on the (coming) modem card).  Also, is there
> any reason to have BNU on the system the existing 2400 baud modem (16450)
> is going into ?  Are the options the same ? Anything else ?
> 

To load bnu for a V.32bis modem (assuming COM1 - bnu numbers com ports
from 0, and assuming 16550 exists)

bnu /L0:19200 /R:2048 /T:2048 /Z /F+

In the waffle static file set the speed: 19200 and locked: 19200

If you call waffle from an external program (I use FrontDoor to answer
the phone), call it "waffle speed" where speed is the speed of the
caller.

Works great here.


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From: dawson@willard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: TRUNCATED BATCH(es)
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:02:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: willard.5y25PB2w165w
Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

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

> In article <7e5XPB1w164w@bolis.SF-Bay.org> amillar@bolis.SF-Bay.org (Alan Mil
> |fenner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (William C Fenner) writes:
> |> That's another point -- RFC's only apply to the Internet.  Since UUCP
> |> connection != Internet, you can't point to an RFC and expect it to apply.
> |
> |This reasoning is why so many gateways don't work.  If everyone followed 
> |the RFCs in places where they are appropriate, we wouldn't have so many 
> |unreliable mail systems.
> 
> But some RFC's just _don't_ apply - like RFC821, and RFC822's suggestion of
> <CR><LF> seperated lines.  I wasn't suggesting to completely ignore the
> RFC's; I was just pointing that although the RFC's may be the bible of
> the Internet, they don't *necessarily* all apply to UUCP.

Is your suggestion then to PARTIALLY ignore the RFC's?  Why is that better
than ignoring them completely?  My feeling is that it is in fact worse.

-- 
dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
From: cybapunk@hovel.welly.gen.nz (Phil Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: DOS "cron"/schedule - useless ??!?!?!
Keywords: Schedule!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:01:46 +1200
Distribution: World
Organization: The Hovel Bulletin Board System

system@precipice.chi.il.us (Vikki Welch) writes:

> Alan Millar <amillar@bolis.SF-Bay.org> writes:
> 
> > system@precipice.chi.il.us (Vikki Welch) writes:
> >
> > >   Starting to get serious about the system here and tried implementing
> > > the schedule feature.  Either I don't understand this or it is
> > > ...
> >
> > Have you actually tried it?  Waffle sits and waits for the phone, until
> > it is time to execute something from the schedule.  Then waffle exits
> > and does it, exactly like you would expect.  It has worked fine for me
> > for a LONG time.
> 
> Well, it is interesting to note that if I just set minute
> schedules (for testing) it seems that it holds them until waffle
> is restarted HOWEVER if you have a minute and hour entry, it
> works just fine. Dunno, will look through the source code and see
> what I missed here.  Glad I am not going to be stuck with frodo

Well, I've got 23 events in the schedule set for midnight every night,
and I've also got 7 events sheduled at certain times every hour
(13 * *...etc).  Everything works fine, although if you are executing
batch files, its best to put a CALL [batchfile] before it, apparently.

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From: Pat Cain <patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Yank
Keywords: editor yank
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:29:39 GMT
Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

julie%erix@uunet.uu.net (Julie Cafritz) in <kyq7PB1w165w@erix.uucp> writes:
> The waffle docs refer to a "yank" command

Set your editor to the internal one by entering "none" at the Editor?
prompt (which you can get to by typing STATUS <return> E <return>).

When you send a message, at the "1>" (or whatever prompt) type / <return>.
At the Edit> prompt type YANK filename <return>, where filename is the
filename you wish to include in your article.  This only seems to handle
files up to the number of lines "buflines" is set to in the static file.

Pat.
From: dean@fringe.rain.com (Dean Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle hangs my machine.  Why?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 11:52:12 PDT
Organization: A sure sign of a sick mind.

audit038@spacm1.spac.spc.com (John Coffman) writes:

> In article <s5VyPB1w165w@cacti.mcws.fidonet.org>, I write:
> > When getting my news feed from upstream, I get the following message and
> > then my computer is hung up until I reboot it.
> 
> I checked into this further.  I set uucico debug to 10 to see what
> was happening at the time of the hang.
> I had -k set to 256. Actually, -k is set to 512 but my neighbors is
> set to 256 so it downgrades to 256.
> 
> Between each 256 bytes of the file being passed I
> would see what looked like four error messages.  Eventually, a piece of the
> packet containg zeros displayed and the computer hung.
> 
> Packets too big?  I don't know.  I switched back to the default packet size
> and the file came accross with no problems.
I mentioned this to Mr. Dell, he said to try -k 128... which I never got
around to doing.  What the heck, I'll try it tonight.

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					  Any Questions?               -me
From: Lawrence.London@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Lawrence London)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: FredGate version 19L
Summary: where to find a copy
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:38:55 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

Does anyone know where a copy of FredGate version 19L
(I hear this is the latest release) might be obtained 
by modem download (preferable) or FTP?
Thanks in advance
Lawrence

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From: dawson@willard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: HISTORY
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:06:08 GMT
Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

dlhpfm!dlh@NCoast.org (daniel lance herrick) writes:

> dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
> 
> > Threaded news reading?
> > Simple.. just add an index on Subject:
> 
> Please, the thread information is in the References: header, not in the
> Subject: header.
> 
> dan  of dlh Performance Marketing  POBox 1419  Mentor Ohio 44061
>          NCoast.org!dlhpfm!dlh or ab.com!dlhpfm.uucp!dlh 

As some interesting bugs have already been pointed out to me, I will tend to
the corrections before proceeding to additional "features" for this program...
but thanks for the input.

There is one big "gotcha" to using my history program... I tested and debugged
the program by using only my own STATIC file... and there are some rather
simplistic assumptions I made that are not universally applicable.

You can avoid any potential bugs in my parsing of the static file by using
the command line option -spool= (e.g., -spool=c:\news) to point to the news
area, and by using the other command line options to specify the other pieces,
e.g., the directory that contains the history database, etc.

So, I have already been given a static file that my program does not YET work
with.  I will update the software and let the group know when this problem has
been resolved.

-- 
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Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
From: system@precipice.chi.il.us (Vikki Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: DOS "cron"/schedule - useless ??!?!?!
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 07:50:20 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Welch Research

Alan Millar <amillar@bolis.SF-Bay.org> writes:

> system@precipice.chi.il.us (Vikki Welch) writes:
>
> >   Starting to get serious about the system here and tried implementing
> > the schedule feature.  Either I don't understand this or it is
> > ...
>
> Have you actually tried it?  Waffle sits and waits for the phone, until
> it is time to execute something from the schedule.  Then waffle exits
> and does it, exactly like you would expect.  It has worked fine for me
> for a LONG time.

Well, it is interesting to note that if I just set minute
schedules (for testing) it seems that it holds them until waffle
is restarted HOWEVER if you have a minute and hour entry, it
works just fine. Dunno, will look through the source code and see
what I missed here.  Glad I am not going to be stuck with frodo
<grin>.

take care, Vikki.
From: jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Scheduler, boy do I feel dumb
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:43:34 GMT
Organization: The little node that could...

Hi Guys! Just a quick note to wipe the proverbial mud off my face-- I
tried Waffle's scheduler (1.65), and it work(ed/s) flawlessly. I did
recieve a few replies to my questions, and appreciate the responses!
(Thanx Ralph and Bob!)

                              Jeff

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From: system@micromed.com (Duane Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Vacation program
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 18:52:19 PDT
Organization: Micro-Medic  - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access

jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:
> Hi Folks! Can anyone tell me where I can find a copy of the Vacation
> program? I don't have FTP, so I'll need to go by either mail server, or
> human server... :-) Thanx muchly!

You can request it from FTPMail@micromed.com with the following command:

/GET vac15.zip uue

For those interested I have written a small utility (DOS) that will take
your USENET file and a newsgroup listing and create a "boards" file. It
too is requestable from FTPMail@micromed.com. Use the following command
to request it:

/GET unet10.zip uue




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From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Polling problems
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 09:51:58 EDT
Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY

Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:

> Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to set up a friend with a Waffle system that I will feed.
> > The problem is, when our two systems connect, his gets logged in, then,
> > instead of getting the news that's spooled for him, we get scads of BAD
> > HEADER messages, there's a pause (no SD/RD on the modem) & it starts
> > over again (again with the BAD HEADER messages).  Once, after letting it
> > run like this for over 5 minutes, we had a whole 29 bytes on his system.
> > 
> > My system hasn't had any problems from my feed since the first day I set
> > it up.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> As an addendum, here's some further information:
> 
> We entered a mail message on his machine - it came accross to mine ok,
> but then nothing went from me to him...
> 
> He is running (but not logged into) a Novel NetWare LAN.  Waffle is set
> up entirely on the c: drive.

More info -- we ran a manual poll while I could watch my screen.  Here's
what's displayed at the end of the poll:

Login or NEW: malskis
Password:
WAFFLE UUCP 1.64 - Mon Aug 31 09:19:13 1992
on jaflrn (answering), debug level 1
Anonymous UUCP login from malskis
Talking to: malskis
S 3505.DAT Carrier lost..
engine() state is _0_
Carrier lost..
9 packets sent, 2 received, 12 errors, at 19 cps
- 1 connection(s) made -

Calls: 3381
Awaiting Call...

Any ideas?  Our next step is to try a boot diskette with no Novel
drivers.

Jon

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	 Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it.
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From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: DOS "cron"/schedule - useless ??!?!?!
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 19:32:53 EDT
Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY

Alan Millar <amillar@bolis.SF-Bay.org> writes:

> system@precipice.chi.il.us (Vikki Welch) writes:
> 
> >   Starting to get serious about the system here and tried implementing
> > the schedule feature.  Either I don't understand this or it is
> > actually useless unless you have a tremendious volume of callers
> > forcing the waffle to exit and restart - at least as often as you have
> > schedules set.  If I read the DOS.DOC file correctly, this is how it
> > is.
> 
> Have you actually tried it?  Waffle sits and waits for the phone, until
> it is time to execute something from the schedule.  Then waffle exits
> and does it, exactly like you would expect.  It has worked fine for me
> for a LONG time.

Dumb question -- did you rename the sample "schedule.eg" file to
"schedule"?

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		   Jon Freivald ( jaflrn!jaf@uunet.UU.NET )
	 Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it.
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