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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.
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Rhys Weatherley, University of Queensland, Australia.
rhys@cs.uq.oz.au  "I'm a FAQ nut - what's your problem?"