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- From: dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: .QWK mail reader for Waffle
- Message-ID: <k9T8VB4w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:29:55 EST
- References: <PoF3VB8w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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- system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
-
- > dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
- >
- > > As long as your feed site did not do batching of news for your site prior
- > > to receiving your newbatch request, then your stuff wouldn't be filling
- > > up his hard drive between your infrequent POLLS. (No matter what you
- >
- > But doesn't this run the risk of losing mail if it is expired before
- > being batched?
-
- Mail is not batched. Mail is not expired.
-
- News is. And, yes, they would "lose" news if they didn't collect more
- frequently than you run expire. However, the same is true for QWK-based
- offline readers, is it not?
-
- > While I'm here, I'd like to argue against the @filename use as equivalent
- > to .unixuse for the waffle login script, or any other use. DOS seems to
- > be going the command @filename where @filename is a list of filenames on
- > which the command operates (eg del @list.txt), and while you CAN work
- > around it, I'd rather NOT, especially if I'm going to have users edit
- > their OWN waffle file. I'd hate one to go DEL @waffle and have it do
- > AWFUL (tm) things or even just confuse the user (ie require del ?waffle).
-
- I simply don't follow what you're trying to say. Could you tell me what
- you mean by "DOS seems to be going the command @filename where @filename
- is a list of filenames on which the command operates (eg del @list.txt)" ??
- I've not seen anything to indicate that @filename is used by MS-DOS in
- any fashion. Do you have inside info on MS-DOS 6.0?
-
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- dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
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