HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Fossil vs Not
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:11:20 GMT
Organization: Mala's Refuge, Montreal, Canada

In <98a6VB2w165w@dithots.Gwinnett.COM> gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue) writes:
>  What is the reason for using a Fossil driver vs Native modes? A friend of
>  mine said that fossil was originally designed to increase performance of
>  modem communications, how true is this? 

>  Please email a copy of the response, my feed has been getting purged from
>  my host.

>  bill

	Actually, Fossil was orignaly created for Fido type BBSs.  Hence the acronym Fosill, which stands for Fido Opus...[can't recal the others]  IT was done this way so that any MS-DOS capable computer could run the BBS software, while they would get a driver made specificaly for their computer system.  Currently this measure is no longer needed for most BBS software, they handle their own modem connections, but software such as QuickBBS and Remote Access still depend on a Fossil driver. 

	I tried running with a Fossil driver and Windows, it sucked, because of it my connection with my feed was not working for over a day.  Everytime we connected, nothing would happen.  I now run Waffle v1.65 under Windows v3.1 without a driver and everything works fine.


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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
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:38:38 GMT

In article <qVbPrAVBBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:

>A site mynode which is prepared to take feeds should be able to resolve:
[...]

Uucp mail doesn't have any concept of "feeds".  There are only neighbors.
Perhaps you are thinking of news.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:08:52 GMT

In article <KGmNrAOCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> David.Keegel@apana.org.au writes:
|The problem with smarthost: hishost!bighost is that mail for myneighbor
|(ie: myhost!hishost!myneighbor!user) goes up to bighost.

Only if you don't have your PATHS file set up properly.

  Bill
From: elrond@freeside.com (SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 08:35:09 -0600
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

In <1992Dec28.210944.17025@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
>fun at Windows.  BUT!!!!  Now I have (drum roll, please)...  LINUX, a
>freely-distributable Unix clone.  Runs cnews, smail, x-windows, etc.,
>*AND* Waffle.  Eight virtual consoles, etc.

Sounds great.  Has Steve Linus thrown in the patch for Micro-Channel
machines yet?  Last I checked, only the big-bux UN!X's would run on
a micro-channel bus.  If anyone knows better *please* correct me!

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From: carlos@carlos
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Helldiver Questions
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:25:38 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

In <wHoiwB1w165w@wefunk.rent.com> ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig) writes:

>Ok,

>   1)  When I try to send mail, it tells me it can't open temp file.
>       This happens after I enter in all the destination info.

Do you have a SET TEMP= C:\DOS\TEMP statement in your autoexec.bat
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
                        pick your own subdir this one I used as an example

>   2)  When I work on my address book, it ends up size 0.
>   3)  Ditto for my join/newsrc file.
>   4)  All my newsgroups, whether joined, or manually went to, are empty.

>Ack!  The thing LOOKs great.  Why can't I get it to work?

Does your copy of Waffle work OK? Helldiver searches for certain waffle
files, mainly STATIC etc etc, and this is mentioned in the docs..

If WAFFLE works, Helldiver should as well..

>Mitch
>(reply in E-Mail, sorting through all the bunk here makes my eyes hurt.)

Mine too! But someone else may be pulling the hair out of their head
and could use the info too!


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.misc,alt.bbs,news.software.readers
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: Offline readers
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:06:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.095354.13628@catfish.az05.bull.com> pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) writes:
|I'm looking for a database oriented offline message reader. By this I mean one
|that doesn't work on a packet by packet basis, but which copies the packets int
|into a running database.

I've used "atp" under UNIX, which keeps a running database... the source
claims that it should work fine under DOS.

  Bill
From: jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:26:48 GMT
Organization: The little node that could...

phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill) writes:

> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> >In any case, the use of text mode was a design decision.  You may not think 
> >it was the right decision (and your argument may be valid), but that doesn't
> >make it a bug.
> 
> The use of text mode was a *LAZY* decision (or an ommission, cause Tom forgot
> about ^Z processing).  It doesn't change the fact that it is a BUG.

     I've stayed out of this issue for a few reasons, but I work for a
software company, so I find the need to defend the programmer (in this
case Tom) from such remarks, as it indicates a growing trend among
software users that I'd much rather stop.

     I would tend to disagree with this statement, Phil. What we are
arguing about here is a matter of programming preference. Firstly, just
because it doesn't work the way you WANT it to does NOT make it a bug. It
just makes a gripe, which is a seperate, but equal issue. To call it a bug
is inappropriate. If your gripe is with the "^Z", talk to Microsoft. If
your gripe is with the way Waffle handles it, I would suggest talking to
Tom directly about it, as he is the ONLY person who could handle it.

     Secondly, we are working with TEXT here, so it would seem that TEXT
mode is the most appropriate. What we are talking about is the ability to
have the compiler automatically check for NEWLINEs and such as it is
ripping the info from the disk (TEXT mode, for those who don't know), or
to have the entire chunk brought into memory, and MANUALLY check for
newlines (BINARY mode, for the uninitiated). Again, since we are working
with TEXT, it would be appropriate to work in TEXT mode.

     We are arguing the specific (Waffle handling ^Z's), stating the
general (the equivalent of "all my other programs do such and such") as
the cause. This is not a valid argument, and is not warranted.


                                   Jeff

Hey! Put that flame gun away... I'm entitled to my opinion!!
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.misc,alt.bbs,news.software.readers
From: rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth)
Subject: Re: Offline readers
Reply-To: rob@sound.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Sound & Vision BBS (UK) 0932 252323
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:34:27 +0000

>There is an MSDOS version of ATP floating around under the filename 
>ATPDOS06.ZIP.  I downloaded it from the Lunatic Fringe of Plano, 
>Texas.  Phone # is 1-214-422-2936 (v.32bis) if you're interested; they 
do they have a Fidonet address ?
or is this program available for FTP somewhere ?

-rob-

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
From: sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol)
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Organization: APK Public Access Unix * Cleveland, OH
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 13:42:25 GMT

Andrew M. Dunn (amdunn@mongrel.UUCP) wrote:

: True.  But, unlike the US (and, to a lesser extent, Canada) they don't
: appear to insist on a geographical hierarchy.
: 
: THAT'S what people don't like about the .US domain.   Or the .CA 
: domain.

I haven't seen that many Canadian addresses that ARE geographical.

: :  Andy Dunn           <amdunn@mongrel.UUCP> or <dunn5177@mach1.WLU.CA>   :
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
						  is this geographical or
						  is it the address of some
						  organization???

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Telnet: wariat.org   To register: send e-mail to info@wariat.org, or
log in to BBS and download file 'user.new' from file area 2.

Also President of The Tiny Software Co.   E-Mail Address: sjsobol@tiny.com
From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Rick, ain't this neat, McCombs)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Mail Servers and anonymous UUCP sites (was Re: Mail Servers...)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 21:49:35 CST
Organization: The Red Headed League; Lawton, Ok
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.96
X-Fantasy-of-the-Moment: To be captured by the Givers of Pain and Delight.
X-Star-Trek-Quote: Brain! and Brain! what is Brain!

russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:

> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes that gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM writes:
> 
>>>  Does there exist a list of mail servers on the net? It would be nice to
>>>  have a list of all available file request servers for access.
>> 
>> the (probably) definitive Waffle archive is on halycon.com, which supports
>> anon-ftp and mail-based-fileserving.
> 
> and anonymous uucp (for us non-Internet connected folks - thanks!).  and

One place to look is the nixpub list. Many of these have anonymous uucp,
however they mostly have Unix stuff but some have DOS stuff and the ones
that don't have RFCs or other things that maybe useful.
On the negative side, the Unix sites that include DOS files often don't
keep most up-to-date DOS files, in fact the are often very stale.

Perhaps someone should volunter to compile such a list, it would avoid
many of us posting a list of the ones we each know of which probably
overlap. I'm not voluntering just yet as currently I send and receive
most of my email via my longdistance connection (that will hopefully
change within a couple of months).

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Xref: sparky comp.bbs.waffle:5417 comp.bbs.misc:1597 alt.bbs:7638 news.software.readers:2525
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.misc,alt.bbs,news.software.readers
Subject: Re: .QWK mail reader for Waffle
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:03:41 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

slack@wuntvor.pillar.com (slack) writes:

> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
> 
> > I have worked with Blue Wave and it is much better than .qwk packets.  Qwk'
> > are more widely supported but I'm sure it's just a matter of porting Blue W
> > to other systems.
> 
> I too have enjoyed using Bluewave, and think that it DEFINITELY is better 
> than most other .QWK formats.  Also as of v2.10 (?) it works with .QWK 
> doors and packets.  In my Fido neck of the woods (147) it's definitely 
> the most popular.

One problem though... BlueWave is the *only* .BW off-line reader
available, right?  This forces people to use *it's* interface.  I
personally prefer Deluxe2; it's faaaaasssst and has an "uncluttered"
interface.

Oh... one more thing.  BlueWave 2.10 does not keep new private messages
private; it drops the Pvt flag.


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From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:03:16 -0800
Organization: The GRAFex Company

In <2VFkwB2w165w@cibbs.UUCP> root@cibbs.UUCP (Mark Buckaway) writes:
>pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:

>Ok...now what about the X-Windows version of HellDriver?

Or...dast I say it?  A DV/X version?

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From: elrond@freeside.com (SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Better news processor for waffle?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 06:54:16 -0600
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

In <wTVNrAlDBh107h@cnbisis.lerctr.org> cnb@cnbisis.lerctr.org (Nelson Baird) writes:
>In <P0B4VB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:

>>Has HellDiver been released, or is it still in beta testing?

>I dropped the one from halcyon after the release notice.    
> 
>I have communicated with the author.  He is adding additional features in a
>next release.  I guess that combination makes the release official. 

>-- 
> Thanks,
> C. Nelson Baird

Why?
	It was my understanding that the author himself u/l'ed it there,
and I've used it reliably since it's "release".  Yes, he has more options
planed for the future, but even as it stands, it is the best news/mail
reader for waffle, "period".  
	The author can be reached at:  rhys@cs.uq.oz.au
He is very friendly, and has shown a willingness to mail uuencoded copies
to those without FTP access.

[posted reliably from Helldiver 1.07]

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From: steve@presoft.com (Steve Kohlenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Better news processor for waffle?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:41:26 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Presoft Architects

crespin@nadir.uucp (Rudy Crespin) writes:

> In <oHwNrArIBh107h@freeside.com> elrond@freeside.com (SysAdmin) writes:
> >In <wTVNrAlDBh107h@cnbisis.lerctr.org> cnb@cnbisis.lerctr.org (Nelson Baird)
> >>In <P0B4VB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:
> 
> >>>Has HellDiver been released, or is it still in beta testing?
> [stuff deleted]
> >planed for the future, but even as it stands, it is the best news/mail
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >reader for waffle, "period".  
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Ditto!!!!!!!!!!

I must obviously conclude otherwise.  In its present form, it will not
work at this site, "period".

This site handles a LARGE number of news groups.  Because of
HellDiver's early approach of keeping all the groups and other
information in 640K RAM memory, we experience insufficient memory
problem including blank newsgroup names and other problems.  Mind
you, this is with 620K available space after loading NetWare drivers.

Email correspondence with the author (who was very helpful and more
than polite) suggested just after its initial release that the problem
would be corrected shortly but would take some rewriting.  I am
waiting to test the new version.

I think HellDiver is off to a great start but at the moment, it is
useless here.



Steve
   
 Steve Kohlenberger, PreSoft Architects      Internet: steve@presoft.com
 Novell Professional Developer
 Specialists in NLM and Disk/Tape Driver development for NetWare 3.X/4.X
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: TMAIL114 released but not announced here
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 23:14:40 MST
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.98

mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:

> From: dcs@witsend.tnet.com
> To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
> Cc: rschulz@cs.ualberta.ca, dcs@witsend.tnet.com
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

that's me (at the moment, anyway).

> Subject: TMAIL114.ZIP - TMail: Mail/news shell for UUPC or Waffle BBS
> 
> pd1:<msdos.uucp>
> TMAIL114.ZIP    TMail: Mail/news shell for UUPC or Waffle BBS

[description deleted]

the description was culled from the README/documentation for tmail.  (I
suggested the mix and the author ok'd it, so I submitted it)

> I've sent off a query to the author as I don't have FTP access.
> Wonder if halcyon or remote.halcyon have it yet.
> 
> Anyone know anything about this reader?

the author says he hears of people using it with waffle - I was going to
wait until I'd found someone with a waffle config file for it before
putting it on halcyon.  that's also why it's in <msdos.uucp>

he says that it can be used directly in place of pcelm, so that was why
I put `Waffle' in the description

   If you are already using UUPC's mail or PCElm, you can start TMail 
   right up.  All three mailers are interchangeable, although TMail
   will handle much larger mailboxes than the UUPC mail program.

the way it reads news is to transmogrify it into a big mailbox - if it's
what you want to do, you can, but it's likely not.  he sez:

  I'm sorry that the news support is UUPC-only; if waffle can
  deliver news to a mailbox then you won't need them anyway.
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From: william@cithara.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Caller statistics (awk program)
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:02:34 GMT
Organization: Organ Grinders Monkeys Union With Penguins As Mascots

pherrj%valnet@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Jonathan Herr) writes:

> 
> <> I saw the stats that someone had put up about the admin/caller file,
> <> but I wanted *MORE!*   So I went nuts with awk... Here is an example
> <> run:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> <> I'll send the awk program out if somebody wants it...
> 
> Mail to you bounces from IU.  Please put them on halcyon.com for mail
> requests.  Thanks!  It looks really good.  May you go absolutely
> insane with AWK!

Mail to the original poster " rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) "
goes into a vortex somewhere and never comes back!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
William Ross
cithara                 Specalists in asbestos underwear
                        since 1992                william@cithara.login.qc.ca
From: Bob Van Cleef <revc@Garg.Campbell.CA.US>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Modem debuggin - Viva 9642e
Keywords: modem debug viva
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 10:32:49 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: The Land of Garg

(Here is a copy of a letter I mailed to Tom. There is a specific
 question for the net at the bottom.  Bob)

Hi Tom;

I'm trying to debug the use of a loaner modem - a Viva 9642e - and I have
some suggestions:

1 - debug: modem

Please document the meaning of those colons "::::::" that fill the
screen. They are actually obstructive because all the read information
scrolls off before it can be read.

I suspect they are somekind of tic marks, representing waits. If so,
replace them with something that will not clear the screen.

	*MODEM: peek = 13		CR
	*MODEM: peek = 10		LF
	*MODEM: peek = 79		"O"
	*MODEM: responding OK|

Now what does that mean? Can I assume that you report each byte
returned from the modem post until you figure out what it is?

	*MODEM flushed: 12		FF
	*MODEM flushed: 10		LF
	*MODEM flushed: 13		CR
	*MODEM flushed: 10		LF
	*MODEM flushed: 78		"N"
	*MODEM flushed: 79		"O"
	*MODEM flushed: 32		SP
	*MODEM flushed: 67		"C"
	*MODEM flushed: 65		"A"
	*MODEM flushed: 82		"R"
	*MODEM flushed: 82		"R"
	*MODEM flushed: 73		"I"
	*MODEM flushed: 69		"E"
	*MODEM flushed: 82		"R"

What is the difference between flushed and peek? 

Since I am running on a DOS system, scroll off is a real problem.
Please change it to something like:

	*MODEM flushed: 12, 10, 13, 10, 78, ...

to keep scrolling to a minimum.

2 - modem scripting
	
Because of the inherent slow response of this modem to initialization
commands, the only way that I can succesfully initialize it on a 
consistant basis is by waiting for the OK response. This can easily 
be done in the "dialers" file.

How about providing the same functionality for initialization,
autoanswer, etc?

3 - modem status checking

Most modems today, in addition to added status messages that choke
Waffle {CARRIER 9600}, have many status registers that are helpful
in debugging connections.

How about an option to allow specification of a status check, with
the results echoed back to the console?

initialized	: AT Z0 | AT&V | <-- reset modem, print register contents	

---------------- for those of you monitoring on the net ------------------

One of the problems with this modem relates to dealing with plain, vanilla,
2400 baud modems. If you initialize the modem at 2400 baud, it will answer
the phone and connect to a 2400 baud modem. If you initialize at greater
than 2400 baud, it chokes...

Any clues?  (A Viva 9642e)

Bob

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From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Helldiver Questions
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 21:12:30 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: The GRAFex Company

ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig) writes:

>    1)  When I try to send mail, it tells me it can't open temp file.
> This happens after I enter in all the destination info.

You do have a temporary file set in your path and your static file.
 
>    2)  When I work on my address book, it ends up size 0.

Might have something to do with the above.
 
>    3)  Ditto for my join/newsrc file.

These are different files.  JOIN is your waffle /user/<user-name>/join
file.  NEWSRC is a file that HD will create if you decide not to use your
JOIN file.
 
>    4)  All my newsgroups, whether joined, or manually went to, are empty.

Sounds as tho you have not got it configured correctly.  Worked for me
first time out of the box.
 
> Ack!  The thing LOOKs great.  Why can't I get it to work?

Reread the documentation.

> (reply in E-Mail, sorting through all the bunk here makes my eyes hurt.)

See your optometrist.

s

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