HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Why we use Waffle
Summary: because it came with uucico.exe and rnews.exe and a primitive reader
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:08:00 MST
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.99

[note: I didn't read this until almost a week after it was posted.  local
network problems.  sorry]

bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:

> This brings up an interesting point: What percentage of the Waffle community
> actually runs a BBS or cares about Waffle's ability to support one?  For my

from the questions asked and the discussions, I'd guess a majority.

> part, I use Waffle so that my wife and I can send and receive email and read
> news.  To me, the BBS support built into Waffle is more of a nuisance than a
...
> munity for Chrome.  Is the fact that Chrome doesn't exist a reflection of the

I am in exactly the same situation.  except that instead of using chrome,
I use helldiver or nwreader or rnf or rusnews (I'm told rnf is still in
beta testing in Europe, but will go on halcyon when it's ready).

so, whether chrome exists or not, the console-only reader beast is out there.
(my wife and) I personally only use waffle.exe to read/reply to mail.

as an aside, on an almost-related topic:  why do people still use waffle.exe
to read and post news?  what is _missing_ from these readers above?  (ones
with a (*) are not problems with at least one or two of them)

  - too expensive (*)
  - doesn't work with my setup
  - thought it was causing the waf165 mail problems I'd seen
  - wanted to give online users same interface (*)
  - suspected a trojan horse
  - too slow to pre-scan headers (when applicable)
  - too much bother to ftp it
  - nostalgic feeling of reading news out of order, not being able to
    follow threads, and having to read at least first page of each post

I can't help with the last one, or the second-last one either, actually,
but speaking as an author of one of these things (for my own benefit) I
know that the effort has already gone into making it - but a lot of people
are still posting from waffle.exe, something I gave up on as being too
painful a long time ago.  are _all_ these people coming in through the
phone lines, where with a slow modem can make a fancier interface seem
like a waste?  (though I think selecting the articles _then_ only
transmitting the ones you _wanted_ over the line is quicker.  maybe it's
a subjective thing)

let us know.  well, let me know.
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: ZyXEL to WorldBlazers - init strings
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:11:06 GMT

hernandez@info-gw.UUCP (Manny Hernandez) writes:

>He feed several other site at v.32bis and claims to have 1800cps transfers
>on average. 

I don't doubt you, I doubt him.  He might get 1800 PEP-to-PEP, but
I'm sorry... I just can't see 1800cps with v.32bis. (well, maybe,
if he's sending un-compressed news files).
-- 
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                 "A World of Information at your Fingertips"
                 P.O. Box 555, Grapeview, WA 98546-0555, USA
                    ralphs@halcyon.com,  +1 206 955 1050
From: jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:55:57 GMT
Organization: The little node that could...

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?
     Then the phone doesnt ring 34 times at 3am... :-) Off-Hook=peaceful
night's rest...:-)

                              --Jeff

...From a tiny little node called Eternal!
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
Keywords: Unix version (Xenix SysV), Smail-3.1.27, Waf165
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:05:20 GMT

jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes:

>In article <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>>Here's the setup (suggestions to follow...)
>>
>>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...

maybe the 'add a shell user' script needs to add a corresponding waffle user
and the 'waffle newuser signup' needs to add a corresponding shell account
(obviously with only one of them able to be logged into).

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

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
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		contact you local power company to let them know"
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From: lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US (Lance A. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: 23 Jan 93 06:06:03 GMT
Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC - DOS/Waffle 1.65

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?

What about the new people in town who have just gotten a local BBS listing 
off of the one board they already know about and are trolling around 
looking at the local BBS scene.

An unanswered non-busy phone would make me not call again; especially if 
the BBS list is not very current.

Lance

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From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:54:33 MST
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.99

jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:

> russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
> 
>> the phone company may not appreciate the line actually being off-hook.
>
>      As an aside, who the hell cares WHAT Ma Bell thinks... All they do is
> rape you for the monthly bill (as anyone in Illinois can tell you). If I

and they have the option of cutting off your line any time they feel you've
not complied with your agreement.

> want to keep my phone off the hook for 5 minutes, it's my line, and to

well, no.  it's not your line.

> hell with Ma Bell if she don't like it! :-)

(I see the smiley)

for five minutes, I can't foresee a problem (realistically).  for longer
periods of, say, a half-hour and up, I can easily imagine some fabled
network trouble indicator light coming on, and no one being pleased that
it was just you wanting to give the world a busy signal.

I don't know if these things really exist or not, myself.

again, just ignoring the rings hurts no one, unless your users are clueless
to the point of no return.  even then, if they leave, you're just raising
the average IQ of your callers...
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: out of sequence news. ( UUXQT question )
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:02:54 MST
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.99

jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) writes:

>  All their news is batched up in numeric order in their /spool/sitename
>  directory. However when they poll me for it they seem to get a muddled
>  feed ie
> 
>  5798
>  5799
>  5743
>  5744

is this in their /news/comp/bbs/waffle directory?  or where?

(assuming their /n/c/b/w) it's because of the way dos doesn't (by default)
sort the filenames - on Unix, it'd do this too (and will show it to you
if you force it) - when you expire the old news (5741 and 5742) the new
news takes the first available directory position for the new news.

I know of no situation in which waffle's rnews.exe would UNBATCH news out
of order.  that doesn't mean it's impossible, but... it'd be tricky at
least, and definitely a non-obvious way to do it.
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c
From: jabr@ra.cs.umb.edu (John M. Abreau)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Why we use Waffle
Date: 21 Jan 93 04:32:52 GMT
Organization: Castle Roogna Associates

In article <TTXmXB3w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
>jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>> [Long, thoughtful, disquisition on the drawbacks of Waffle omitted]
>>
>> Regardless of whether you're running your BBS because you want people to
>> use it or because you want to make a fortune off it, you want people to
>> call it.  Waffle is losing the battle.  Pick up a copy of "Boardwatch",
>> look at the features that other BBS programs provide.
>
>This brings up an interesting point: What percentage of the Waffle community
>actually runs a BBS or cares about Waffle's ability to support one?  For my
>part, I use Waffle so that my wife and I can send and receive email and read
>news.  To me, the BBS support built into Waffle is more of a nuisance than a
>benefit.  Am I the oddball, or is there a sizable contingent of non-BBS Waf-
>flers?  At one time I thought that People Like Me were the intended user com-
>munity for Chrome.  Is the fact that Chrome doesn't exist a reflection of the 
>fact that not many of us (i.e., People Like Me) exist either?
>

I use Waffle as a domain server for BCS.ORG; it handles mail aliases for
activists and staff of The Boston Computer Society, and will soon provide
Usenet feeds for our various BBSes. Due to Waffle's single-line limitation,
I don't support user logins at all; the only accounts are root and the
various UUCP login accounts.
		John Abreau
		BCS Online Services Committee Internet Task Force
-- 
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The Boston Computer Society <postmaster@bcs.org>, <postmaster@bcsoks.bcs.org>
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From: ace@acelab.re.open.de (Andreas Fatum)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: FAX-receive with ZyXEL
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 22:11:10 GMT
Organization: acelab

Hi all...

Still testing different Waffle (1.65) configurations, I now
want my ZyXEL 1496E to receive fax-messages. I put the ..FCLASS=6
init-String into the STATIC-file, defined extern/_system entry FAX
and errorlevels - but it doesn't work at all.
Immediately after incoming connection Waffle decides to drop
the carrier :-(

Using the "debug: modem" setting I saw an error-message just 
scrolling out of the screen; I saw the CONNECT FAX message the
ZyXEL sent and then something like "Hayes -2" or something
like that....

Any ideas?

Thanx in advance,
Andreas
From: hho@phakt.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:39:39 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <s1HiXB2w165w@eternal.chi.il.us> jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:
>russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
>     As an aside, who the hell cares WHAT Ma Bell thinks... All they do is
>rape you for the monthly bill (as anyone in Illinois can tell you). If I
>want to keep my phone off the hook for 5 minutes, it's my line, and to
>hell with Ma Bell if she don't like it! :-)

Instead of taking the phone off the hook during news/batch etc.
Is it possible to run something TSR and answer the phone. It will
print out a message "System is busy, please call back in a few minutes.."
?

I used to run a BBS with a ZOOM modem with its hardware message.
I can program the modem to automatically connect and print out
a message then disconnect :-)))

Thanks
H.
-- 
*******************************************************************************
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                           hho@usc.edu      hung@phsys.com      hung@cccogp.com
From: Jonathan Herr <herrj%valnet@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: command 'me' in waffle 1.64
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:33:07 EST
Organization: WVCF, Vincennes, IN, USA

harrison@adobe.com (Harrison Page) writes:

> In article <470XXB2w164w@jaflrn.UUCP>, xyzzy@jaflrn.UUCP (daniel drucker)
> wrote:
> > 
> > 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]
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////
                      \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////
                         \\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////
                           \\\\\\\\\\\\///////
                              \\\\\\\\\////
                                 \\\\\//
                                   \\//
                                    I believe this is what he's
                                    wanting to know about.
> 
> That's the "mem" command, silly.
> 
>   ..Harrison

Mine correctly reports VGA.


    =      Jonathan Herr                                 herrj@valnet.UUCP
  -   -    Wabash Valley Computing                                WVCF BBS
=  WVC  =  Vincennes, Indiana, USA               Serving the Wabash Valley
 -     -   +1 812 886-6109                        9pm - 7am   3/12/24  8N1
    =
From: root@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle on a LAN
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:37:15 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

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.
> 
> 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 do this. I have two extern nodes and one internal node for myself all running
over a Netware Lite LAN using ARCnet cards.

I have node 1 setup as a "file server" and a node. All the Waffle files are
there including the news directories. For the other two nodes, they only have a
/waffle/bin directory which are basically an image of the file server's. I do
this as a matter of speed since Waffle can run faster from the hard disk of
each node than through the LAN. The /waffle/bin  and /waffle/temp directory are
the only directories on the nodes related to Waffle. I have a static file for
each node which I happen to keep in the /waffle/system directory on the file
server. You could put this anywhere. The static file uses the same directories
for each node except for the bin and temp directories which are local to each
the machine.

It is important to set the channel directive in the static is set accordingly
for each node and multitask set to DOS. This of course should be obvious. I
also keep each local node's /waffle/bin directory in the path such that I can
run the login.bat from anywhere. You may have to create a SUBST drive depending
on your setup.

This about does it. It can take a little tweeking to get going. If want more
help, email me.

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Help!  Waffle cannot see "carrier detect"
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:49:04 GMT
Organization: The CServer at the Z*NET International Global News Gateway
Keywords: init, modem

nick@brimbank.apana.org.au (Nick Langmaid) writes:

> SO.  Has anyone seen anything like this before?  Has anyone got any suggestio
> Are there any neat debugging tricks we should be trying?  Would anyone care t
> speculate why UUPC/extended behaves differently?  We've run out of ideas, exc
> for the unlikely theory that he has a hardware fault.
> 
> All assistance gratefully received...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nick Langmaid  nick@brimbank.apana.org.au  Melbourne, Australia  +61(3)336-32

 
 Nick, ah the netcomm modems strike again (grin). I would suggest you add
 the -t time command to the end of your uucico in poll.bat so it looks
 like this  uucico -t60  or a time (in seconds) it takes to connect. It
 works for me well on the same "E" series of modems.


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From: tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Tom Salzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: UUCICO for Windows and OS/2
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 08:45:40 EST
Organization: SalzoBoard BBS

pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:

> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
> 
> > Maybe asking Tom for a Windows and/or OS/2 version of Waffle *is*
> > asking a bit much,
> 
> Not really.  A few months ago, Tom Salzmann offered to port Waffle to
> OS/2 if Tom Dell would give him a copy of the source code.  He was
> ignored.
 
To reiterate what Pat just said.  I will port all of Waffle to OS/2 for
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.

I will sign any non-disclosure that Tom wishes for me to sign.  I will
ask for no copyright or financial reward.  I just want the thing ported
and I have the tools and skills to do it.

--
Tom Salzmann <tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: 0 length files for outgoing news.. why???
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:10:23 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

> This has been brought up several times and at least once by myself.
> 
> I thought the answer was that news was being deleted (more news in one
> session than /keep allowed) and that they weren't being queued properly.
> 
> Now I run a time based expire.  (CWEXP i think, but i've been trying out 
> several).  The only problem is I'm still getting them. 
> Any ideas?

Yep.

Someone on your system has posted an article, then cancelled it.

Posting adds the article to the list of stuff to be batched,
but cancelling it doesn't remove it from the list, so when
your machine tries to batch, it can't find the article and
screams.

--
Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)
dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz                      Palmerston North
Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245                New Zealand
             "A wet and windy place in the South Pacific"
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Help Out of memory.
Date: 24 Jan 93 11:55:23 GMT
Organization: The CServer at the Z*NET International Global News Gateway

paul.elliott@hrnowl.lonestar.org (Paul Elliott) writes:

> I have reciently got a new CD ROM player for my BBS computer.
> 
> I would like to put some public domain CD's on load for download
> using my $200 DAK cd player.
> 
> The problem is when I have the cd driver and mscdex in memory
> there is not enough memory spawn DSZ. I have a 286 so I can't
> put any thing in upper memory blocks. I do have 2 additional megs
> of LIM however. Is there any way to get waffle to spawn move
> itself to LIM when I run DSZ?
> 
> I have the following in memory:
> ansi.sys
> dmdirver.sys		! my disk drive driver
> BRatemm			!driver for lim memory
> mtmcdsa.sys		!cd driver
> mscdex.exe			!microsoft extensions
> 
> BNU			!fossil
> Waffle
> dsz
> 
> 
> Is there any way?
 
If you are using DOS 5.0 you can put a LH infront of them to load that
application into high memory and save your 640k base.


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: UUcico via Terminal Server
From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 10:57:22 PDT
Distribution: world               
Organization: The Batchelor Pad
X-Newsreader: NWREADER [version 3.00 BETA13]

ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
>
> wjchu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Wen-Jeng Chu (NE U780105) TEL. 715131-4870) writes:
> 
> 
> >     I login my SunOS workstation by way of a Terminal Server witn a modem.
> >Does the UUcico in Waffle work when it dial to Terminal Server and then 
> >login workstation ??
> 
> Yes, it certainly does.  Here's a sample chat script...
> 
> 
> toVAX "" \d\r\d\d\r\r\r\r ame> CONNECT ocal> set\sport\sflow\scontrol\sdisabled ocal> set\sport\sbackward\snone ocal> set\sport\sbreak\sdisabled ocal> c\sgtenmc in: \L word: \P
> 
> toHALCYON "" \r ame> remote ocal> c\snwnexus "" \r in:-\r-in: \L word: \P
> 
> Forgive the formatting.  The first gets in to a VAX through some sort
> of DEC terminal server, and the second to a standard Unix site through
> a DEC 200MC terminal server.

Works fine for me here, too.  You just have to figure out the
keystrokes you need to tell the chat script to send.  Best way to do
this is to login manually with your terminal program, and make a note
of the keystrokes, pauses and prompts on your way in.  Write a script
that sends those keys and/or pauses at the appropriate prompts.

toCerritos   "" \c word: ******* "" \d\r\r Local> c\svax name: \L word: \P

I have to use two different passwords, so only one of them can be
substituted with \P.



[] ---
[] Mike Batchelor <> Long Beach, California
[] mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us <or> mikebat@qdeck.com
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: That nifty LIST command in the JOIN section...
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 17:53:49 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

dwrage@ddt-archives.athens.oh.us (David William Wrage) writes:

> Is there any way to make it run right after the login screen for every user?

Well, one way is to put 'JOIN LIST' in the user's 'waffle' file. Might
be easier to make users aware of that option and let them add it
themselves. Or set something up in a .bat file executed when a new user
signs up that echos 'JOIN LIST' into a waffle file in their directory.
See the docs for how to do that.


--
Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp