Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!sclcig!gsn
From: gsn@sclcig.uucp (Georg Nikodym)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: UUPC
Keywords: @#!$%#, jeez, frustration
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.044734.2466@sclcig.uucp>
Date: 29 Jun 90 04:47:34 GMT
References: <242@dogear.UUCP> <388BL2w162w@cybrspc>
Sender: gsn@sclcig.UUCP
Organization: Southam Business Information & Communications Group
Lines: 25

In article <388BL2w162w@cybrspc> cybrspc!roy@umn.cs.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>root@dogear.UUCP (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>> 
>> From here, it looks easier to set up another UNIX system to run uucp instead
>> of trying to run a PC with UUPC. (leastwise, that's my current opinion, and
>> yes, I am considerably calmer than when I went thru my attempts to make it
>> work!)
>> 
>> I'm real disappointed.

Yeah, me too.

>With that out of the way, why not take a look at Waffle? Not only is it
>easier to set up than UUPC, but it has a newsreader interface built in.
>UUPC will take a newsfeed, but drops it all in one directory. (not too
>handy if you get more than one group) The current version of Waffle will
>use a FOSSIL driver and even lets you use a screen driver (at last! :-).
>It handles uucp file transfers, as well.

Where does one get Waffle anyway?
-- 
| Georg S. Nikodym  -  (416) 442-2238                                       |
| Southam Business Information and Communications Group, Don Mills, Ontario |
| gsn@sclcig.UUCP -or- ...!uunet!attcan!telly!moore!sclcig!gsn              |
| "The floggings will continue until morale improves" -Josi Castel-Branco   |