Daily Dagest for 94-04-14
Greetings Dear Friends!
I would like say all my friends "THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"
I never have such MORE very warm and pleasant congratulations!
This was very wonderful surprise for me!! :-)!!!
This really was Happy Day. I very like work for such
very good friends, where I find in "Friends and Partners"
Thank you!
[from Natasha, in response to many "birthday wishes" received earlier this week]
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-14 Apr 94 Russian "who is who" listing.
#02-14 Apr 94 Intertrans shipping service.
#03-14 Apr 94 Information revolution article.
#04-14 Apr 94 "New Media for New World" update.
#05-14 Apr 94 Pointer to Ukrainian material ftp server.
#06-14 Apr 94 Pointer to material on non-governmental organizations
operating in the Ukraine.
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-14 Apr 94 Sender: "Cefola, Raymond N."
(CEFOLA@druginfonet.pharm-epid.pitt.edu)
Subject: E-MAIL MESSAGES
#02-14 Apr 94 Sender: glasnews@eskimo.com (Alan Boyle)
Subject: New Media for a New World
#03-14 Apr 94 Sender: William Slaughter (wrs@unf6.cis.unf.edu)
Subject: reading & printing cyrillic text
#04-14 Apr 94 Sender: jennifer green (jlgreen@clark.net)
Subject: Re: Vera Gubnitskaia - How to FTP cyrillic text
reader
#05-14 Apr 94 Sender: ourusoffn@queen.lsc.vsc.edu (Nicholas Ourusoff)
Subject: Re: Russian/English software
#06-14 Apr 94 Sender: ut00894@volvo.com (Doug Maston)
Subject: Looking For Yuri
#07-14 Apr 94 Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Your Cyrillic problem
#08-14 Apr 94 Sender: ewinfo@icsti.msk.su (East-West Information Service)
Subject: East-West International Conference on Multimedia,
Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality
#09-14 Apr 94 Sender: wasley_pw@simon.wustl.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: A Ukrainian FTP Site
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Ian Kallen has provided us with an excellent "Russian Who is Who"
listing -- found on the "wiretap" gopher and prepared by folks at
RFE/RL. This document is available from the "who is who" page.
* A shipping service, Intertrans Russia, is described on the "services"
page. From the document, "INTERTRANS RUSSIA currently offers a seamless
shipping network to the many corporations now expanding into this part
of the world. The INTERTRANS/DIALOG FREIGHT team will give customers the
benefit of local knowledge and hands-on service from the freight's origin
to its final destination." Our thanks to Greg Smith for providing this
information.
* "Paradigms of Revolution" -- an interesting article about the global
information revolution currently underway and some concerns. Our thanks
to Jeff Davis for providing this article -- available from the
"telecommunications" page.
* A complete version of a file describing the upcoming meeting "New Media for a
New World" to be held July 27 - August 2 in Moscow is provided on the
funding and exchange page. Thanks to Alan Boyle for providing this
information.
* A hook to a new Ukrainian-related ftp server is provided from the "more info
resources" page. This server is also described in an e-mail posting
below.
* A direct pointer is provided to an interesting 1 megabyte text document
describing over 300 non-governmental organizations working in/with Ukraine.
This is provided from the "more info resources" page.
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: "Cefola, Raymond N." (CEFOLA@druginfonet.pharm-epid.pitt.edu)
Subject: E-MAIL MESSAGES
Hello Greg;
Just wanted to drop you a suggetion. It is a great idea to
post messages from people having a particular problem and need a
solution. However, unless I am missing something I think that it
may be a useful to post the replies to their questions. Chances
are that another person has a similar problem and could use the
information.
The system is great keep up the good work.
Ray Cefola
)|:)
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Sender: glasnews@eskimo.com (Alan Boyle)
Subject: New Media for a New World
Dear Greg and Natasha:
Congratulations to you for all your good news: the assistance from
Soros Foundation, the Cole family's upcoming trip to Russia and even
Natasha's birthday! Up here in Seattle we have our own bit of good news,
to wit:
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Dear Networkers:
The Art Pattison Communications Exchange Program and Ostankino TV will
present "New Media for a New World" from July 27 to August 2 at the
Ostankino Broadcast Center in Moscow.
"New Media for a New World" will examine issues related to on-line media
in an East-West context, with an eye toward promoting international
cooperation and the development of independent media. Among the participants:
Esther Dyson of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council,
Roger Fidler of the Knight-Ridder Information Design Laboratory,
Vladimir Shliemin of Relcom, Russia's largest computer network, and
Anatoly Voronov, director of GlasNet in Moscow.
"New Media for a New World" has received support from the U.S. Agency for
International Development through the Eurasia Foundation, and is sponsored
by U S West. Among other contributors are Aldus Corp. and New Media
Ventures Inc.
Details about "New Media for a New World" may be obtained from the Friends &
Partners Web (http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/funding/new.media.meeting.html)
or from the Communications Exchange Program, 111 West Harrison Street,
Seattle, Wash. 98119 (e-mail: glasnews@eskimo.com).
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Sender: William Slaughter (wrs@unf6.cis.unf.edu)
Subject: reading & printing cyrillic text
I saw Vera Gubnitskaia's posting in the 4-12 Daily Digest re: reading
cyrillic text on PC (DOS & Windows). I'd very much appreciate help on my
MAC. Specifically, I'd like: 1. Information about what to download via ftp
or gopher, in what format (binary or ascii) to download it, and where on
the Internet to find it. 2. What I do with it, i.e. how do I use it, once
I've downloaded it. 3. Do I need some kind of driver? My objective is not
only to read cyrillic text on the screen but also to be able to print it.
Like Vera, I'm not a computer wizard but I am a reasonably quick study,
follow instructions well, etc. Thanks for any help that offers itself.
William Slaughter (wrs@unf6.cis.unf.edu).
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Sender: jennifer green (jlgreen@clark.net)
Subject: Re: Vera Gubnitskaia - How to FTP cyrillic text reader
I am sending this to the server instead of just Vera because I thought it
might be of general interest. This is how I got my text reader for DOS:
1) ftp to nic.funet.fi
2) logon as anonymous, give e-mail address as password (obviously)
3) cd pub/culture/russian/comp/msdos/russ-pc
4) type "binary" (obviously)
5) type "get r11beta.zip"
6) after it's on your computer, unzip the file
7) you will see several files, including r.exe and readme.koi and readme.alt
8) in DOS, type "r" This installs the program which runs in the background.
9) for an intro type "r /?" All instructions are in Russian.
10) After you have installed the program, you can use whatever
communications package you want. I use Procomm for DOS (the Russian program
does not work with windows). I dial-up to a commercial provider for
internet access. After I'm in, and I want to look at cyrillic text (note
that I do not say read, as I've only taken six months of Russian), I hit the
right Control button and the numlock button together. This toggles
between reading KOI coded text, an Alternate coded text, and uncoded
text. If I want to post a message in Russian (yeh, right) the CapsLock
button toggles between writing in latin (english) characters, cyrillic,
and Ukrainian. And you can combine all types of text. For example, =F1=CE=
=C5=20=C7=CF=D7=CF=D2=C0 =D0=CF-=D2=D5=D3=D3=CB=C9=CA!!!!!
Anyway, hope this helps.
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* Jennifer Green |"There is no more fatal blunderer than *
* jlgreen@clark.net | he who consumes the greater part of his *
* | life getting his living" - Thoreau *
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Sender: ourusoffn@queen.lsc.vsc.edu (Nicholas Ourusoff)
Subject: Re: Russian/English software
I would like to know the best sources of information on (i) encoding/decoding
Cyrillic for e-mail to and from Russia; (ii) Russian(-)English language
software for Macintosh and PC. My question is in part inspired by Vera
Gubnitskaia's request on 4-11.
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Sender: ut00894@volvo.com (Doug Maston)
Subject: Looking For Yuri
Hello,
I'm sorry to waste the bandwidth, but my server crashed, and
I lost my mail archive.
Personal message for Yuri S. of Sun Microsystems. I have
finished your translation. Please send me your e-mail address
again so I can send it to you.
Doug Maston
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Sender: "Douglas K Eldred" (eldred@hare.udev.cdc.com)
Subject: Your Cyrillic problem
Vera,
If you have access to a Macintosh, I can probably help you read Cyrillic
documents from F&P. All it takes is obtaining and installing the Macintosh
KOI8 font, then using it in Word or MacWrite or whatever.
The Cyrillic font I have for Windows isn't compatible with KOI8 documents; I
downloaded one of the poems you referred to and it's "garbage" in the Cyrillic
font I use on Windows; I haven't seen a KOI8 font for Windows/PC posted.
Reading some of the stuff on the Cyrillic pages of F&P it looks like you MIGHT
try getting a Russian version of Windows, and/or try code pages 866 and 1251.
Not being a real PC expert, I'm not quite sure what "try code pages" means, but
maybe your local friends and experts can help you there.
I'll see if I can convert the Macintosh KOI8 font I have into a Windows font,
but I doubt it.
Doug
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)From: ewinfo@icsti.msk.su (East-West Information Service)
Subject: East-West International Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia, and
Virtual Reality
file: MHVR94 topics: EDU MEDIA CHI
"New Media for Global Communication": East-West International Conference on
Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality.
September 14-16, 1994, Moscow, Russia
The first serious international conference in the field ever held in
the Former Soviet Union.
Deadlines: Papers - 20th April 1994, workshops - 10th May 1994, posters -
20th May 1994. Send EXTENDED abstract of up to 2000 words by e-mail to
eastwest@icsti.msk.su or by s-mail on a PC diskette to Olga Gornostaeva,
ICSTI, 21 b, Kuusinen str. Moscow 125252, Russia
Send queries to Dr. Peter Brusilovsky plb@plb.icsti.su
ATTENTION: An updated version of CFP is available now at ewinfo server.
The new features are:
- List of topics of interest
- Call for workshops
- Extended PC
- The size of camera ready papers is announced
ewinfo - E-mail server of xUSSR and E.Europe Sci-Tech information: Conferences,
publications, etc. To get help send empty message to ewinfo@icsti.msk.su
To receive this file send to ewinfo@icsti.msk.su command:
SEND MHVR94
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)From: wasley_pw@simon.wustl.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: A Ukrainian FTP Site
(cross-posted from FSU listserver)
A N N O U N C E M E N T ! ! !
Greetings!
Now, thanks to Jan Labanowski at the Ohio State University Super Computing
Center there is a site available for Ukraine/Ukrainian-related items. This
site is accessible by anonymous ftp, gopher, world wide web-mosaic,
and mailserv.
Where is it you ask? The site is: infomeister.osc.edu.
The topmost directory for Ukrainian-related items is:
/pub/central_eastern_europe/ukrainian
Currently, three directories branch from this one:
1) /business
2) /images
3) /organizations
The /business directory contains a list of 640 email addresses of
various businesses in Ukraine.
The /images directory currently contains seven image files: 3 in GIF
format, 3 in JPEG format, and one in PCX. The current listing for this
directory is:
NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII
Directory: /pub/central_eastern_europe/ukrainian/images
Filename Type Length Date Description
==============================================
church1.gif B 160223 xxxxxx Ukrainian Church interior
crimea1.gif B 203533 xxxxxx Castle on the peninsula of Crimea
kira.jpg B 213325 940331 Still from K. Mouratova's Milicien Amoureux
lviv.jpg B 282224 940331 Picture of woman sweeping street in L'viv
nutz.jpg B 134751 940331 Comic strip from Ukr. periodical Perets'
ukrmap.gif B 13437 940321 Map of Ukraine in GIF format
ukrmap.pcx B 44015 940321 Ukraine map in PCX format (same as ukrmap.gif)
The /organizations directory contains a list and detailed description of
311 PVO/NGO organizations working on behalf of Ukraine, a list of 80 various
Ukrainian-American organizations, and a list of email addresses in Ukraine
obtained from an ftp site in Kharkov/Kharkiv. The current listing for this
directory is:
NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII
Directory: /pub/central_eastern_europe/ukrainian/organizations
Filename Type Length Date Description
==============================================
orgngou.txt A 1063791 940407 PVO/NGO orgs working on behalf of Ukraine
orgngou.zip B 254033 940407 Dbase files used to generate orgngou.txt
orgukram.txt A 13753 940407 List of 80 Ukrainian-Am organizations
e-mail-addresses A43118 940407 List of some Ukrainian e-mail addresses.
old Old, obsolete organization lists
I would think that Jan is amenable to additions and modifications
to this particular site of items that individuals would like to be
conveniently located so that they can be shared with others. I myself
would hope to see others benefit from what is here and its contents
enlarged.
Max
pyz@panix.com
wasley_pw@simon.wustl.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:
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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:
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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
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