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- From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <921230.145745.6r3.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:57:45 MST
- References: <iBmPrAeNBh107h@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US> <921228.020445.1P0.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <921230.041944.4N8.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.98
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- rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs) writes:
-
- >> uucp+rnews:
- >> the later you install waffle, the easier it is. is everyone just
- >> remembering the pain of their first-ever install? mine was
- > [...]
- >> I use a tiny fraction of the full waffle package, because I am not
- >> running a bbs - it's just me here. and it's just ain't that tough!
- ^^^^ (argh)
-
- > How you could get rnews to work with only one directory?
-
- just hacking at it - unpack all the news files that WOULDN'T have gone
- straight into junk into one big directory, probably keeping an index
- file somewhere. (as long as you don't have to parse that feeds file,
- doing rnews is easy)
-
- >> uucp+rnews:
- >> again, you tell me. if I thought waffle was perfect, I wouldn't've
- >> written rusnews. but by now we should have interfaces for every
- >
- > I'd say you need to be a medium-grade hacker to get waffle up and
- > running. I got it to work with little or no help.
-
- for the case where the user has:
- one place feeding them
- no places they're feeding
- one (or many, really) phone numbers to call to their feed
-
- this wouldn't be a big deal, would it? to set up a custom waffle system,
- that you could plug and play (answer these twelve questions: type of deal)
- --
- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
-