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Hello:

Is it possible to interface the Pagesat system with DOS Waffle?  I am 
still vague at this point on the finer points of the Pagesat system, but 
the following is how I envision it to work.  I would appreciate pointers 
from existing PageSat DOS users, especially if you use Waffle.

Bare-bones slow 386 (16MhZ) with about an 80MB drive handles the sat 
feed.  I assume the feed is always coming in, so I don't expect this 
machine to do much else.

The above machine is connected via 2 Mb/s Lantastic network to a faster 
386 with a huge hard drive (250MB for now, but hopefully a 450MB to 1GB 
soon).  This faster machine will be running Waffle.  Once every set 
interval (say, 15 minutes or 1/2 hour), Waffle will simply copy the files 
from the Pagesat computer via LAN and then delete them over there.  
Waffle will then perform batching for other sites, expiration, etc.

Thoughts:

- The Pagesat computer will be a perpetual data machine.  Since data will 
be retrieved and deleted from it's hard drive on a frequent basis, I 
assume the 80MB drive will meet my needs.

- I am concerned with duplicate news-items.  Not so much with Waffle 
storing a crossposted article in different locations, but with what I 
assume will happen with multiple feeding of groups (eg. this post, 
cross-posted to comp.bbs.waffle & biz.pagesat, would arrive in the c.b.w. 
feed and be copied to /comp/bbs/waffle and /biz/pagesat, and then would 
arrive in the b.p. feed and be copied to /comp/bbs/waffle and 
/biz/pagesat -- leaving 4 articles where only 1 was intended).

- Is it a simple matter to configure the Pagesat computer to only receive 
a selection of groups, or must all newsgroups be retrieved and then the 
ones not in a system file immediately deleted?

- This should be a DOS-based solution.  Linux is fine but I don't think 
it offers Lantastic support(?).

I am a bit concerned -- though excited -- about the prospect of dealing 
with a continuous stream of news!  :-)

Your thoughts appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

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