Subj : BBS software.
To   : Tony Langdon
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Mar 07 2018 10:33 pm


 On 2018 Mar 08 07:42:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> we used it as a door from RemoteAccess to provide email and news
 ml>> capability... never did get it set to use account credentials from
 ml>> RA,

 TL> Interesting way to do it.  I simply used GIGO to gate email and news
 TL> to my downlinks.

GIGO didn't exist when i was doing this... in fact, FRED was one gate package i 
tried when i got tired of doing the waffle-as-a-door thing... FRED worked OK 
but when GIGO came out, it was so much easier... that was back in the dialup 
days with FXUUCP and its special UUCICO program... later on, when we finally 
got internet out here, we switched to it and then had to find the GIGOTCP 
package to get tools to do on TCP/IP what UUCP had been doing on dialup... 
granted, our internet was now dialup but we had TCP/IP and could run servers 
and do email stuffs easier...

 ml>> though... you had to login to RA and then into Waffle... i don't
 ml>> remember if logging out of Waffle terminated the call or if we did
 ml>> get it to return to RA so the users could do more there...

 TL> It would have been possible to reeturn to RA, with the worst case being 
you
 TL> may have to log in again.

i didn't have that... i think one thing was waffle wanting to drop the "modem" 
connection when the user logged out... i forget what i did to get around that 
but it was not ignoring the DTR... when loggin out of waffle, in my setup, it 
did return to RA with no problems... i think we may have done the "relogon" 
thing around the same time... i recall having that because memory was pretty 
tight still and swapping out was ok for somethings but not others... so yeah, i 
think my waffle was an exit with an error level to the .bat to run waffle and 
then it would exit back with another errorlevel which i used to relogin to RA 
or to go on back to the mailer since the line was disconnected... that was 
quite some time back, man :)

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