Daily Digest for 94-03-01
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#1-01 Mar 94 First Russian text on-line. Electronic issues of the
university newspaper "Za Nauku"
#2-01 Mar 94 Additional materials of the Global (electronic)
University consortium.
#3-01 Mar 94 Cyrillic fonts for IBM PCs (and compatibles)
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-01 Mar 94 From: Rock Tabor (rgt01@r4sparc3.r04.epa.gov)
Subject: Friends & Partners
#02-01 Mar 94 Sender: DYBKAJ@HARPO.TNSTATE.EDU
Subject: Poet Akhmatova
#03-01 Mar 94 Sender: tatiana@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Subject: Re: Daily Digest for 94-02-28
#04-01 Mar 94 From: Allen Strange (ICMA@SJSUVM1)
Subject: Internaional Computer Music Association
#05-01 Mar 94 Sender: duval@cats.ucsc.edu
Subject: Artists reading the list?
#06-01 Mar 94 Sender: "Andy V. Tsvetkov" (andy@ts.sebastopol.ua)
Subject: About training
#07-01 Mar 94 From: dmidnes@raz.csc.ncsu.edu (Diane Midness)
Subject: KIDLINK newsletter in Cyrillic (fwd)
TECH TALK:
In this new section of the 'daily digest' we will
try to answer questions and post material of a
technical nature for those who are learning to use
the various elements of the "Friends and Partners"
service.
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* We have our first Russian text on-line. Dimitriy N. Vasilev
has provided us with electronic issues of the "Za Nauku" university
newspaper of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Several
recent issues of this newspaper are available from the "Za Nauku"
page which is available from the "Science" page. We will continue,
with Dimitriy's help, to post current issues of "Za Nauku".
* Dr. Takeshi Utsumi has provided us with some additional materials
on the activities of the Global (electronic) University consortium.
These are available from the "Education" page. Our thanks to Dr.
Utsumi for providing these materials and to Angie Croft for providing
the markup and posting.
* Fr. Seraphim has generously supplied us with the Cyrillic fonts
for IBM PCs (and compatibles). These are available on our anonymous
FTP server (solar.rtd.utk.edu) in directory /friends/pc.
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Many thanks! to Angie Croft of the UT Office of Research Services who
helped compile today's issue of the Daily Digest.
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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)From: Rock Tabor (rgt01@r4sparc3.r04.epa.gov)
Subject: Friends & Partners
Natasha:
You have done a good job on the Friends & Partners.
Keep up the good work!! There should be more like this
for other parts of the world. Your's is a good example.
If you can, let me know your future plans. Thank you.
Regards..
Rock Taber
internet address:
rgt01@r4sparc3.r04.epa.gov
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Sender: DYBKAJ@HARPO.TNSTATE.EDU
Subject: Poet Akhmatova
Hello;
I'm very interested in the life and works of the Poet Anna Akhmatova
and would like to correspond with others that have the same interest.
Thanks.
Jill Dybka
Dybkaj@harpo.tnstate.edu
TSU Nashville Tennesse
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Sender: tatiana@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Subject: Re: Daily Digest for 94-02-28
Dear Moderators:
How do I get access to the Funding and Exchange page? And other pages, as
well? No, I am not a computer wiz...
Thanks.
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Dear Tatiana,
We have provided a "Tech Talk" section in today's material that
discusses the various options you have for accessing the Friends
and Partners server.
Please let us know if you have any questions (technical or
otherwise) about how to access this material (we are glad to
help).
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)From: Allen Strange (ICMA@SJSUVM1)
Subject: Internaional Computer Music Association
I am the current president of the International Computer Music Association
which represents about 600 composers/scientists from 27 countries. One of our
activities is the International Computer Music Conference which is a week
long series of concerts and technical presentations. This conference has
happened annually since 1975 and rotates between Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Are there any composers/academies/universities envolved with current technology
and music! We used to be in contact with the Computer Music and Musical
Informatics Association which was part of the Union of the Scientific
and Engineer's Society of Estonia. Does anyone know if this still exits?
Allen Strange, President
ICMA
(408) 395-2538
fax: (408) 395-2648
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Sender: duval@cats.ucsc.edu
Subject: Artists reading the list?
Friends and Partners,
I would like to know if we have yet attracted artists to the Friends and
Partners list and if so, what it is that you are doing and interested in
seeing happen here. Also, if any of you can let me know of arts organizations
in the US and Russia whom you know might be interested in hearing about
Friends and Partners, please do. Send your messages to
cduval@solar.rtd.utk.edu. I am trying to organize cross-cultural and
multi-disciplinary talk and activity in the arts.
Cynthia DuVal
Art Talk/Art Action
Santa Cruz, California
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Sender: "Andy V. Tsvetkov" (andy@ts.sebastopol.ua)
Subject: About training
DEAR F&P!
I think you have seen my msg. in issue from Feb. 16. Here is
another topic we can discuss. Peoples from ex-SU want to visit US
for training purpose and broadening in their skills. They are not
familiar with the procedures to application and where they must
send their proposals.
For example, in my case. I want to have a short time visit to US to
practise in methods of processing of images on the unix based
computers, for oceanography, for remote sensing data assimilation
and so on. I would appreciate a help from anybody who has an
expirience how to have this kind of training visits for professional
purposes.
Best,
Andrew Tsvetkov, Sevastopol
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)From: dmidnes@raz.csc.ncsu.edu (Diane Midness)
Subject: KIDLINK newsletter in Cyrillic (fwd)
I am forwarding you an annoucement that I received from KIDLINK this
morning. I thought you and Natasha would be interested in it as well as
the rest of the Friends and Partners folks.
Diane Midness
Enloe High School
Raleigh, NC USA
Forwarded message:
)From: Odd de Presno (presno@grida.no)
Subject: KIDLINK newsletter in Cyrillic
Comments: To: kidlink@VM1.NoDak.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list KIDLINK (KIDLINK@VM1.NoDak.EDU)
Hello friends,
Thanks to Michael M. Rusinov assisted by two children, Tanya Bobckova and
Alyosha Stolyarov, we are now able to offer a translation into Russian
(Cyrillic) of The KIDS-94 Newsletter, Issue Number 2. November 10, 1993.
Here is some information about one of the persons in this team:
My name is Stolyarov Alexey.I am 14 years old.
I live in Saint Petersburg,in Russia.I study in
the 9th form of a secondary school.I learn Eng-
lish and German.My hobbies are mountain skiing
and travelling.When I grow up I am going to be
a lawyer.If I become a lawyer I will try to ma-
ke people much more honest and just.And now I
have to study a lot to get this occupation.
To view this newsletter, you need a Cyrillic character driver installed on
your computer. Assuming that you do not have that, and use MS-DOS, ask for
the following four files by email to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu . The TEXT of
your request should contain the following commands:
GET KIDLINK NEWS294C
GET KIDLINK CYRILLI1
GET KIDLINK CYRILLI2
GET KIDLINK CYRILLI3
The CYRILLIx files contain a freeware MS-DOS driver that will enable you
to display the Cyrillic characters. Alas, we do not have cyrillic drivers
for other computer platforms (yet).
Thank you very much, Michael, Tanya, and Alyosha!
Odd
Return e-mail address: opresno@extern.uio.no
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TECH TALK . . .
In this new section of the 'daily digest' we will try to answer questions
and post material of a technical nature for those who are learning to use
the various elements of the "Friends and Partners" service.
We continue to receive questions about the "how to's" involved with
accessing the Friends and Partners information. There are several
different methods of access -- and one new method we are exploring (#5
option below).
We thought we would again summarize these different methods.
1) the best; have a UNIX workstation, Macintosh, Windows PC (486,
ideally), or Amiga computer hooked up to the Internet with its own
Internet Protocol address and running the latest version of the free NCSA
Mosaic software. This is wonderful but often not an option. . .
2) second best, is a SLIP or PPP connection to a unix server which
assigns you an IP address and thus gives you an Internet connection
(although a slow one -- delivered over a modem connection at 9600 or
14,400 baud). This is definitely possible and is increasingly being
offered at universities and by commercial internet server providers. As in
#1 above, this option requires the use of the free NCSA Mosaic software.
(NOTE: There are some other excellent WWW browser software packages such
as Cello for the PC. Mosaic appears, though, to be the most popular
browser available today.)
3) If you have Lynx installed on your local host computer, you can use
the 'G'o command with the following URL:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
to connect.
If you don't have Lynx but you can use telnet from your computer, just
telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu and enter 'friends' (without the quotes) at
the login prompt. This will place you on our computer where you will be
running our copy of the Lynx software. Note: you must be emulating a VT100
terminal to use this.
This is not a bad way at all to access the server (the Lynx software is
amazingly good) but it does not allow you to view graphics and
listen to audio in the same way as Mosaic.
If you do use this method, the following instructions may be helpful
for you once you are logged on to 'friends'.
use the space bar to move forward through the pages of text
use the 'b' key (lowercase b) to go backwards a page
once you are on a 'hypertext link' (this is a highlighted word
or phrase), press RETURN to 'go' to the referenced material
if you have done this and want to go 'up' to the page from which
you chose the hypertext link, press the 'u' key (lowercase u)
press the tab key OR the down arrow key to move through the
various hypertext links
press the up arrow key to go backwards through the hypertext
links
if you want to mail yourself a copy of whatever you are reading,
just press the 'p' key and then choose the "Mail" option. You
will then be prompted to enter your email address (make sure to
erase any material already in the prompt area)
finally, when you wish to quit, just press the 'q' key.
if you wish to learn lots about the Lynx software, press the '?' key.
4) If you cannot use any of the above options but you do have email
access to the Internet, you can interact with our email WWW gateway
to obtain material from the Friends and Partners server.
5) Finally, many folks do not yet have any sort of network access. We are
looking at an option that will allow these people to access the F&P
information locally (from their own machine) if they are using a a
relatively high end PC or Macintosh, an Amiga, or a unix workstation.
This involves installing on a local computer a complete copy of the F&P
server -- complete with Mosaic, as well as graphics viewing software,
audio software, etc. The end result is a 'local' version of F&P which has
everything that is on our primary Internet-based server= .
This is all 'do-able' because of the 'local' mode option of Mosaic.
Because it does not have to travel the network to grab information, it is
actually faster than the Internet version. But that is the only advantage
. . .
Disadvantages: (1) you would have to update your material periodically
from our server to keep your local version up-to-date; (2) if you 'click'
on a resource which is not located on our server, the access will
obviously fail (you simply get an error message).
Although we cannot do much about the #2 disadvantage, we are planning on
providing a periodic update service for those folks who wish to use this
method. We feel this may be of particular interest to folks in the FSU who
just do not have any sort of network access in their immediate future.
If you are interested in experimenting with us on this #5 option, we will
gladly make the server material available to you via ftp or, for a few
cases, we could mail some diskettes to you. When compressed, all of the
text, graphics, and audio files are about 5 megabytes. Uncompressed, this
will use about 7M on your disk (including all of the software). As the
server continues to grow, disk space may become a problem. We can easily
imagine the day when we will have 20 or 30M of material.
We have this material ready now for Macintosh and Unix based machines.
We are working on a PC version but it has proven a bit more difficult
than we anticipated (mainly because of filename length restrictions).
Please send your comments / questions / suggestions to:
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su OR gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
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APPENDIX
FRIENDS is a free service started by friends in Russia and the United
States. This Listserv is one element of that service.
To subscribe to FRIENDS (if someone has passed you a copy of this
announcement), just send an email message to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
consisting of *one line* of the following format:
SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS firstname lastname
and substitute your first and last names for 'firstname lastname'
To unsubscribe from FRIENDS, send the message UNSUBSCRIBE FRIENDS to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
To post a message to FRIENDS, send it to: friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
To visit the FRIENDS WWW server, use the following URL if you have
a World Wide Web browser: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
If you don't have a WWW browser, just telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu
and enter 'friends' (in lower case and without the quotes) at the
login prompt.
For those who need it, the IP address of our computer is 128.169.112.24.
Please address any comments, questions, or suggestions to your friendly
moderators:
Natasha Bulashova, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Greg Cole, gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu