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tom@TaterTot.com (Tom Lemos) writes:

> Anyone running Waffle on a LAN and would care to enlighten me
> as to how do I get Waffle to recognize the news and spool directories?
> Having a second STATIC file seems to be the answer, but I seem
> to be missing something.
> 
> Anyone care to enlighten me? My huge LAN only consists of two
> computers, all I want to do is to be able to use one of them, when
> a user is on the other...

I do this. I have two extern nodes and one internal node for myself all running
over a Netware Lite LAN using ARCnet cards.

I have node 1 setup as a "file server" and a node. All the Waffle files are
there including the news directories. For the other two nodes, they only have a
/waffle/bin directory which are basically an image of the file server's. I do
this as a matter of speed since Waffle can run faster from the hard disk of
each node than through the LAN. The /waffle/bin  and /waffle/temp directory are
the only directories on the nodes related to Waffle. I have a static file for
each node which I happen to keep in the /waffle/system directory on the file
server. You could put this anywhere. The static file uses the same directories
for each node except for the bin and temp directories which are local to each
the machine.

It is important to set the channel directive in the static is set accordingly
for each node and multitask set to DOS. This of course should be obvious. I
also keep each local node's /waffle/bin directory in the path such that I can
run the login.bat from anywhere. You may have to create a SUBST drive depending
on your setup.

This about does it. It can take a little tweeking to get going. If want more
help, email me.

Mark

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