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- From: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: HELLDIVER running with Win-OS2
- Message-ID: <11535@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 04:27:56 GMT
- References: <V2PLwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <i0DNwB3w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au
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- In <i0DNwB3w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:
- >What I'd *like* to do is just create the article and queue it for later
- >transmission. Then, when I'm ready to send my outgoing traffic, I'll
- >just use Waffle's uucico like I always have. Is there any way to do
- >this? Helldiver seems to insist on grabbing the modem and sending each
- >article out the instant I finish editing it, and when that doesn't work,
- >it dumps the article in the bit bucket.
-
- >Why is this necessary? I don't even understand why I *need* HSEND, but
- >Helldiver won't let me not use it.
-
- :-? Helldiver doesn't grab the modem at all. It needs to call Waffle's
- RMAIL.EXE and RNEWS.EXE programs to feed the mail and news into the Waffle
- system, and then those programs queue up the message in the usual Waffle
- way. Polling, uucico, etc, don't come into the picture at all, or if they
- do then there is something seriously wrong with your Waffle setup. :-)
-
- HSEND.EXE is merely the program which calls RMAIL.EXE and RNEWS.EXE. Since
- they are DOS executables, some way is needed to launch them from the Windows
- portion of Helldiver. Hence the problem with OS/2 2.0 which seems unable
- to launch DOS apps from Windows apps. HSEND.EXE also provides some extra
- support in the form of final message construction and genericity across UUCP
- systems. This will become a little more evident in the next version of
- HSEND which can send messages through Waffle or construct a Helldiver Reply
- Packet for uploading to some other system.
-
- Since OS/2 2.0 is being such a pain, how about this scenario: I create a
- Windows version of HSEND (not hard) which copies the mail and news into
- a temporary directory that you specify. Then once you are ready, you run
- a DOS program to flush the contents of the temporary directory into Waffle?
- You'd only need this for OS/2 2.0 - the DOS version of HSEND will be used
- for Windows. It is possible to launch Windows apps from Windows apps in OS/2
- 2.0 isn't it? If not, then tough. :-) I really don't want to link the
- HSEND code into the main executable if I can help it.
-
- A native OS/2 version is a long-range possibility, but until I get more
- disk space, more memory, and a compiler, it will remain vapourware. A
- Windows NT version is more likely in any event, because that is my currently
- planned upgrade path. I also need to fit my PhD thesis in there somewhere. :-)
-
- Cheers,
-
- Rhys.
- --
- Rhys Weatherley, University of Queensland, Australia.
- rhys@cs.uq.oz.au "I'm a FAQ nut - what's your problem?"
-