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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
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Subject: Re: USEnet PC Access
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Date: 28 Sep 90 01:18:21 GMT
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grb@mtuxo.att.com (Gary Becker) writes:

> If you find cheap, but not public domain, uucp software I'd be
> interested in the source.  My employer has a policy, to prevent
> viruses, of no use of public domain software on company PC's.

I have written to the original poster, but it appears this may have
some general interest.

Waffle is a PC (and Unix) netmail/netnews/UUCP package. I use it for
my node, and find it quite robust. Source is available, as well. (I
think it's about $120 for PC source) It's shareware, not public
domain.

The shareware executable distribution is available on SIMTEL as
PD2:<MSDOS2.BBS>WAF163.ZIP.

One caveat: if you want to take 16-bit compressed batches of news,
you'll need a different version of compress than the one supplied.

OB disclaimer ... I didn't write it (Tom Dell did, and a fine job it
is!), I just use it and like it.


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