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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Editors in Waffle
From: fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:29:49 EDT
Organization: NRL Connection Machine Facility, Washington, DC

In article <1992Jul23.131421.249@et.tudelft.nl> mvdl@et.tudelft.nl writes:
>First I tried to set it up in the _editors files, but here the editor could
>not be discovered at all (what the h*ck is the use of this file ????)

Put the following in your _editors file:

fsedws /access=2 /slash /screen /command="fsed.exe +c:\util\wordstar.cfg %i"

Make sure fsed.exe is in /waffle/bin.  Then set your editor (using STATUS)
to "fsedws".

If you need more help, you can get FSEDWAFL.ZIP from the mail server at hogbbs
(mail archive-server@hogbbs.scol.pa.us, put "send ibm/bbs/fsedwafl.zip uue"
in the text of the message), or via anonymous FTP from halcyon.com in
/pub/waffle, or simtel20 or any of its mirrors in <msdos.waffle> .

>When would call the editor on the waffle-prompt with 'ed test.txt' (ed is the
>name of the extern-commandfile for the editor) then waffle responds with 
>'test.txt Not found, sorry'

It looks like your "ed" extern file had more than one line, so Waffle decided
that it was a mutliple-choice extern, and was looking for "test.txt" as one
of the choices.  Make sure that the extern file has only one line.

  Bill
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From: steveh@grafex.cupertino.ca.us (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Posting to moderated groups
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 08:01:30 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The GRAFex Company

I have just noticed something interesting.

When posting to a moderated group from within the newsreader, waffle will
ask if you want to mail to the moderator.  When posting from the command
prompt, waffle automatically posts for internet delivery.

Waffle 1.64, local turned off (strictly email and news here).

steve
From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Color codes?
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:40:00 GMT
Organization: Prime Time Productions, Aurora Il.

does anyone know the various codes for the colors setting in waf 1.65b9 I 
really would like to colorize the reading I've played and played with the 
settings but am unsure of the numerical settings. 
1=
2=
3=
and so on? any help out there!!

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From: andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: (DOS) how to remove deleted file entries -
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:15:32 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

jon%vector0.UUCP@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused) writes:

>      After I expire the messages, the directory list will stay at 200
> files.  If you run a directory sort, the deleted names will be removed
> from the directory list, so getting a 'dir' of the directory won't
> need to travel through several linked lists.

  Not quite true. Once a directory is expanded to handle more entries, it
never shrinks by itself. Running a sort program will put a NUL entry after
the last existing file, which causes DOS to stop reading the directory.
Without it, DOS will probably read virtually all of it.
  The only way to 'shrink' a directory is to run something like SpeedDisk or
DOG.

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Editors in Waffle
From: fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:29:36 EDT
Organization: NRL Connection Machine Facility, Washington, DC

In article <1992Jul23.131421.249@et.tudelft.nl> mvdl@et.tudelft.nl writes:
>First I tried to set it up in the _editors files, but here the editor could
>not be discovered at all (what the h*ck is the use of this file ????)

Put the following in your _editors file:

fsedws /access=2 /slash /screen /command="fsed.exe +c:\util\wordstar.cfg %i"

Make sure fsed.exe is in /waffle/bin.  Then set your editor (using STATUS)
to "fsedws".

If you need more help, you can get FSEDWAFL.ZIP from the mail server at hogbbs
(mail archive-server@hogbbs.scol.pa.us, put "send ibm/bbs/fsedwafl.zip uue"
in the text of the message), or via anonymous FTP from halcyon.com in
/pub/waffle, or simtel20 or any of its mirrors in <msdos.waffle> .

>When would call the editor on the waffle-prompt with 'ed test.txt' (ed is the
>name of the extern-commandfile for the editor) then waffle responds with 
>'test.txt Not found, sorry'

It looks like your "ed" extern file had more than one line, so Waffle decided
that it was a mutliple-choice extern, and was looking for "test.txt" as one
of the choices.  Make sure that the extern file has only one line.

  Bill
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Bill Fenner	fenner@jazz.psu.edu	..psuvax1!hogbbs!wcfpc!wcf
		wcf@hogbbs.scol.pa.us   (+1 814 238-9633 v.32bis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: jdb@bitcave.in-berlin.de (Joern D. Busch)
Subject: 386bsd
Summary: anybody did it?
Keywords: waffle and?
Organization: BitCave BBS, Berlin, FRG
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:17:41 GMT


I started playing with 386bsd and wondered if anybody got Waffle
to work under it (not speaking about cnews and such, just waffle).

cheers,
	Joern.

P.S.: any news about Waffle's proposed nntp capability?
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: steve@jack.sns.com (J. Steven Harrison)
Subject: Re: waffle for Sun??
Organization: Systems'n'Software
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:37:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.161104.7053@animal.er.bell.ca> squevill@qe.bell.ca writes:
>Hello, I guess I found the right way to post to this group.
>
>I am looking for a good bbs (ie waffle) for my Sun w/s SPARC 2.
>
>Does anybody think I would have any luck here?
>
>Thanks (please reply through e-mail).
>
>

Yes, you can get it direct from Tom only in source format. There is a minimal
fee.

Contact him directly for details.

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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Problems With Bang Paths.
Keywords: dos waffle 165 beta 9
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:52:22 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, ON (613) 547-5066

donal@brewich.hou.tx.us (Donal) writes:

> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
> 
> > Problem is, it is a real pain for my users here who want to reply to his 
> > users there!  For example, 'king!root@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca' would get mail 
> > to root@king via my site, but if he sent mail to one of the users here 
> > and they tried to use the follow or reply commands, Waffle would say, "No 
> > such user king!root."
> 
> I have a similar setup, and reply works just fine! I feed korova, which is no
> on the net. When I send mail to korova!system@brewich.uucp it goes just fine,
> and so does korova!system because korova is in my system file. It just sends 
> straight to her, with no intermediaries. No smarthost required. Maybe your 
> PATHS file might help?

Well, I've already got king listed in my paths file.  If I send mail to 
king!root@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca from RMAIL, it works fine...from Waffle I 
get the error message.  If I send mail to king!root, then both work fine. 
If I send mail to root@king.dist7040.rotary.org then my paths file 
changes it to king!root and again it works fine.

This mixed mode of addressing isn't liked by everyone but it seems to be 
the only solution until this guy registers his site.

Oh -- you said yours works...are you running 1.64?  If this is the case 
then I better let you know that I am running 1.65 beta 9 and it does 
*not* work.

Thanks for your input.

----------------------------------------------------
frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Vicuna Systems BBS - 613/547-5066 [9600 v.32/.42bis]
From: Ralph Sims <ralphs@remote.halcyon.com>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: waffle 'mirror' site
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 10:51:36 PDT
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service

I've 'mirrored' remote.halcyon.com's /public download directory
onto halcyon.com.  The two sites now maintain the same file
offerings, with remote.halcyon.com (remote.uucp) handling the
archive-server requests, etc. and halcyon.com handling the
anonymous ftp work (we're trying to get server software installed
on halcyon to help take the load off remote).

halcyon.com will allow anonymous ftp uploads, as well.  The
directory structure is /pub/waffle, with the uploads in
/pub/waffle/incoming.

Send a mail request to archive-server@remote.halcyon.com with
the line /GET index in the text of the message.  This list
changes regularly.  Send me mail if you want to be placed
on a list to receive the index on a weekly basis.
From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: TWO problems ...  please help!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 14 Jul 92 10:30:44 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

rsingh@goliath.Stanford.EDU (   raj) writes:
> I am using waffle to transfer mail form a unix machine to a pc/286,
> with Taylor-uucp on the unix machine.
> 
> PC makes the call ALL THE TIME.
>  
>   1.  All the email transfer fine, no matter what size, from unix
>       to pc, i.e., receive works ok in waffle-uucico.
> 
>   2.  When transfering from pc to unix, i.e., send-mode,  only very small
>       files get sent;  for all others, waffle-uucico aborts with
>       bad checksum error.

I've got a not unrelated problem.  Taking FOSSIL speed down to 9600 and
giving UUCP 7 windows made the cps rate leap up by 200 on files received.
Unfortunately, it leads to absolutely dismal performance on files sent;
uucico just drops dead periodically and stops sending.  It eventually
recovers, but it seems to spend seconds at a time not sending anything.
Anyone have any suggestions?


mathew
From: murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle File Server
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 16:51:12 EDT
Organization: The Business Card (BBS), Lawrence, MA - Data: 508-682-5329

Say, ummmm, has anyone taken a look at the Waffle File Server by 
Birdsong?  Doesn't that look a little too scary to be worth it?

I mean, those large sums of money mentioned in the docs for modifying 
things, allowing registered versions to get around, etc.  I'm talking 
about those sums over $100,000.00!!

Jeepers, man, I don't mind registering my software and all that but I 
think Birdsong's gone off the deep end with this one!  I'm not a 
programmer so I wouldn't have the foggiest idea on how to modify the 
software but I do wonder about my sysoping skills now and again.  I can 
just see me screwing something up and somehow somebody gets ahold of my 
registered version of WFS and this BirdDog coming after me for 
$147,800.00 smackeroos!  Lordy, would that ruin my day or WHAT?!?  :-)

                                - - - Murph

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From: brewich!donal@lobster.hou.tx.us (Donal)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle File Server
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:07:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: brewich.eJyioB3w165w
Organization: The Brewer's Witch BBS, HouTx, +1 713 272 7350

ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes:

> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
> 
> > nobody in their right mind would sign anything like the garbage
> > that came with WFS112.zip.

[...much dense and idiotic verbage removed...]

> As for WFS, I've never used it, and after what I heard about some
> of Hardiman's licensing terms, I never will use it!  I can't
> dignify this lifeform by trying his "scareware".  VMS works well,
> so I'll stick with it, and Rick is infinitely more reasonable.
> 
> Before I forget, Larry Hardiman, please let us know when you've
> come back to this planet and have become a human being again.

Get real, folks! All Larry has said with the way he has worded his 
license agreement is that he does not want anyone distributing 
modified code, or mangled distribution packages. The exobitant fines 
stated are simply to drive home the idea that the author does not want 
anyone doing this, and rather than setting himsel up for a future 
lawsuit that he would be unable to win because of the laws in this 
area being so vague, he has set down exact penalties that would be 
very hard to dispute in a court of law! It is not unreasonable to pay 
$17 for the registered copy of WFS 1.1.2 (which I have) and it is not 
unreasonable for larger companies to pay the higher commercial rates. 
and I am sure that in the case of a non-profit corporation, Larry 
would be more than reasonable on granting a site license for a lower 
fee. I have corresponded with Larry often, and he has always been 
prompt (less than 2 hours from me back to me on the Net!) and complete 
with his answers. I cannot believe that people, supposedly intelligent 
ones, are slamming this man for attempting to protect his investment. 
Unless that is, you make it a habit of abusing licenses and pirating 
software and are upset to see someone with an idea that might make you 
pay for your theft?

Larry? I love WFS, and hope you continue to improve and expand the 
product, and others.


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(Internet) lobster.hou.tx.us!brewich!donal 
(SCA) Ld. Donal Dubh, IC of Dun Bruddair, B of the Stargate, K of Ansteorra
From: hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Junk group
Date: 23 Jul 1992 07:21:32 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

For the last few days, some of my news seems to be go to junk
group?

I have no idea why? the setup has been here for 1.5 years now..
If you have any possible solutions please let me know...

Oh, the article going to junk are perfectly ordinary, my system
just add a new header then dump to junk :-(

THanks
H.
 














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From: mick@wanda.ob.open.de (Michael Reichelt)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Problems With Bang Paths.
Date: 31 Jul 92 07:52:39 GMT
Organization: A Fish.

Hi,

donal@brewich.hou.tx.us (Donal) writes:

> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
> >
> > Problem is, it is a real pain for my users here who want to reply to his 
> > users there!  For example, 'king!root@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca' would get mail 
> > to root@king via my site, but if he sent mail to one of the users here 
> > and they tried to use the follow or reply commands, Waffle would say, "No 
> > such user king!root."
> > 
> > The way around this, of course, is to capture his original message, 
> > manually add, 'John Doe (king!root) writes' and the prepending '>' and 
> > then send a message to 'king!root'.
> > 
> 
> I have a similar setup, and reply works just fine! I feed korova, which is not
> on the net. When I send mail to korova!system@brewich.uucp it goes just fine,
> and so does korova!system because korova is in my system file. It just sends it
> straight to her, with no intermediaries. No smarthost required. Maybe your 
> PATHS file might help?
> 
> 
I think that Steve did a mistake. He wants to send mail to a person
with the username 'root' on am maschine called 'king'.
But the shown line : 'king!root@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca' does the following.
Waffle wants to send the mail to the SYSTEM 'king' that is not known
on the local maschine and then the mail would go from the node 'king' to
the user root@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
I think that ist worng when wrtiting to root@king.

Donal says it, the node korova is well known by his waffle site and because
of that it works.

So we see that the problem is a problem of addressing the person where Steve
wants the mail to go to.
What's about 'vicuna.ocunix.on.ca!root@king' where the node 'vicuna' has to be
known by his system and the node 'king' has to be known by vicuna ?

I hope this could be a solution to the problem.

Michael.


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From: cybrspc!wwiv!52-500@cs.umn.edu (system#freds.cojones.com (George W. Hayduke) #52 @500)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Mail server sw for Waffle?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 22:45:22 GMT

801-503@wwiv.cojones.com (rick#ssg.com (Rick Emerson) #801 @503) writes:

> Look into VMS.  It's a little awkward to set up but it works for the users.

Oof. You've never used VMS, I can tell. No better way to ruin a perfectly
good VAX than with that horrid operating system. You're obviously not playing
with a full DEC...

(a thousand pardons, but I just couldn't resist....:-)


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: by355@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael P. Otto)
Subject: Re: Questions from a Greenie.
Reply-To: by355@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael P. Otto)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 05:07:15 GMT


>>4) Is it possible to run doors
>
>For Waffle 1.64, you can use my MakeDoor utility.  Get it as MKDOOR11.ZIP
>(again, same places).  For 1.65, I patched the source to add a /dorinfo
>flag to externs, but lost the patches.  They're reasonably trivial, though,
>so I'll be redoing them soon.

Or you could use my DoorMaster utility, which will allow you to create
exit files for 50+ different BBS packages <grin>.  Using the /parms mode
of DM, you can pass all the necessary % codes in the extern file and
DM will take it from there.  
 
Michael


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Colors settings!!
From: Pat Cain <patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:52:26 GMT
Reply-To: Pat Cain <cain_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
Organization: SillyNews, Sideways bulletin board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) in <15o8NB2w165w@slic.cts.com> writes:
> jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas) writes in part:
> > here's a question for ya!! I have RTFM and all it says about the static 
> > color settings are for a monochrome monitor the settings are... well I 
> I'm using 106 12 112 in the static line.  Although I'm not overly
> pleased with this setup, it was too cumbersome to test and rerun
> waffle repeatedly looking for the "right" colors.  Anyone else?

They are:   "color: a b c"

    a = general text (except windows/menu bar)
    b = windows that appear
    c = status bar

          0 - Black     3 - Cyan        6 - Brown
          1 - Blue      4 - Red         7 - Light Grey
          2 - Green     5 - Magenta

Calculating a colour:

1. Foreground (if you want any colour other than black):
        X = a colour number from above (0 to 7)

2. Add 8 to X if you want the colour number above in bright text.
   (black=>darkgrey, blue=>lightblue, green=>lt.green, cyan=>lt.cyan,
    red=>lt.red, magenta=>lt.magenta, brown=>yellow, lt.grey=>white).

3. Background (if you want any colour other than black):
        o pick a colour number from above (0 to 7)
        o multiply the number by 16
        o add number to obtained to X

4. Flashing text.. add 128 to X if you want text to be flashing.


The resulting number X is what you should use.


For people like me with hercules cards, blue is equivalent to
_underline_, "bright" is equivalent to bold.


Pat.
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: bbs.rscholz@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Ricky Scholz)
Subject: Re: The Wall for Waffle
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:24:29 GMT

fenner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (William C Fenner) writes:

> Did anyone get this to unzip properly?  When I uudecoded it and tried
> unzipping, I got
> 
>   Exploding: notes.txt     Bad CRC 0804513c  (should be 592aa6cc)
>   Exploding: wall.com      Bad CRC 7ee2a255  (should be a564e54e)
> 
>    Bill
> -- 
> Bill Fenner                  fenner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil

The same thing happened to me... it must have been a faulty upload.

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From: peters@beltrix.guild.org (Peter Sleggs)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: 165b10 oddities
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:09:44 GMT
Organization: Bellatrix Systems Corp., Mississauga, ONT Canada

I just upgraded from 1.64 to 1.65beta10 (thanks Tom), I ran my initial
tests on a seperate system to weed out any easy problems.

All went well when I updated the real system and with a few tweeks in
the dialers and scripts files I could dial into all my feeds.

HOWEVER,
I found a new restriction on usernames that were not there before. My
mail feed (actually I'm the guild.org gateway so its not just MY mail)
could not login, the login name was totally ignored. I traced this to
the presence of a '.' in the name [ uunet.ca ]

Thanks to the prompt attention by support@uunet.ca we changed the login
name and all was well [ 5 minuites from my sending mail asking them to
change their login name on my system they tested the login, I'm glad I
set it up before I sent mail ]

2. I've found that if one does a 'w filename' on LARGE pieces of mail, a
piece of the NEXT mail is appended. Now I have not tried this with small
then moving to large to find the boundary but the one I did notice was
720000 bytes and the file written was 734000 bytes :(

Is anyone keping a list of the odd problems found in 1.65b10 other than
Tom ?


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