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We are very interested to have Russian speaking translators assist us by translating one or more of our web pages into Russian. This will be a great service to the russian population reading our web-page. if oyu are willing to help us.

1. Type the url of the web-page you wish to translate in the "Location" box of netscape (or other browser you are using)

2. When to url is loaded use "file" and "save" to save the file to your hard disk in whatever directory suits you.

3. next open "file' and "open file in editors

4. next type in your translation of the file. To do this you must have koi-8 (Unix) and/or CP1251 (windows) cryillic fonts installed on your computer.

You may type the translation either (a) before the English text (b) after the English text, or (c) insrt the Russian trnaslation after each paragraph of the English text. We prefer variant (c).

5. The save the file as an .html file

6. The send us an e-mail message to russia@aa.net and attached the html file as an attachment.

We thank you very much for your assistance. When we get the file we will 'publish' it to our web pages. You are invited to add in the file your name and email address and indicate "Translated By:" This informaiton will be published on your web pages. You may add an email address if you wish.

Palms and compay has donated to the people of Russia a library of 1000 of the greatest books in the World. This is an electronic library and the books are available free to anyone in Russia who has a computer. The books may be downloaded by ftp. We are looking for volunteers who are interestd to adop one book and share it with the Russian people by translating it into Russian.

You can send your translated book (1) by mail on a floppy disk to Palms & Company, Inc. 515 Lake Street South #103, Kirkland, State of Washington, United States of America, 98033 or, (2) by email to russia@aa.net.

Please inclde yur name and country and email if you wish and we will place a notice on our web site that you are the translator of the book.

For a complete list of the 1000 books, please visit the URL at the Ministry of Education in Russia

In the United States and elsewhere you can access the books at the followng addresses

Australia

United States

www.ul.cs.cmu.edu These will also be available via FTP.

ftp://ftp.ihug.co.nz/pub/mirror/gutenberg

gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu:70/11/Gutenberg

http://www.mirrors.org.sg/pg

sailor.gutenberg.org cd pub/gutenberg

ftp://ftp.pinknet.cz/pub/etext/gutenberg/

Czech Republic.

http://www.pinknet.cz/reklama.asp

ftp://ftp.pinknet.cz/pub/etext/gutenberg/

http://www.gutenberg.org/ has a page pointing to mirror sites.

http://sailor.gutenberg.org/ is Sailor's web page for its gutenberg site ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/ gets you to the Sailor/gutenberg ftp server , which can also be reached from the web site above.

East Coast of the United States (Baltimore , Maryland)

sailor.gutenberg.org or 198.76.201.198
very fast service for both WWW and FTP service.

In More Detail

You can get the Project Gutenberg books via FTP and the Web:

Urbana, Illinois
ftp uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu or ftp 128.174.5.14 login: anonymous password: yourname@your.machine cd pub cd etext cd gutenberg [or just cd /pub/etext/gutenberg/etext97] cd etext97

[96, 95,94, 93, 92, 91 or 90. 70's and 80's are in /etext90]
get filename (be sure to set bin, if you get the .zip files) get more files quit get GUTINDEX.96 to see all Project Gutenberg Etexts to date. get GUTINDEX.97 to see current releases. New files in etext97, of course.

ftp prairienet.org *** [This is usually the first site they appear in, but is slow] [This site is in Champaign, Illinois] ftp ftp.prairienet.org or ftp 192.17.3.4 username: anonymous password: yourlogin@your.machine.domain [this is your email address where you are]

cd pub/providers/gutenberg/etext97 [etc, as above]

ls or dir for a listing of files

get filename.txt (ascii files) get filename.zip (binary zipped files)

be sure to type "binary" before retrieving the .zip files!

EUROPE

Bucharest High School of Computer Science Serving Central and Eastern Europe
ftp://ftp.lbi.ro/pub/Books/Gutenberg

and a new site up at:

http://www.informika.ru -- official server of the Ministry of Education of Russia (the Russian part of the server not equivalent to the English one).

http://www.informika.ru/windows/books/gutenb/list.html

This is only available on the Russian language side of their system, but is pretty easy to see. Click on the WINDOWS icon at the bottom of the main menu. Then, on the lower left selection [the web names will pop up in English] which is /books. The first one of that list, The Palms Russian Public Library, is Project Gutenberg Etexts in .zip format as mirrored from uiarchive.

SINGAPORE

http://www.mirrors.org.sg/pg in Singapore

The Gutenberg archive can also be accessed from Singapore at http://www.sol.com.sg/pg

These two addresses reflect the same database in Singapore. and others are starting soon in Japan and Taiwan.

Project Gutenberg Web Sites can now be reached at: [This site is in Nevada] http://promo.net/pg/ [This is the definitive site for now] ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/pg_home.html http://www.prairienet.org/pg

and from Silicon Valley at ftp://cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg and ftp://archive.org/pub/gutenberg/etext/etext97 and etext96/95/94/93/92/91 and etext90, of course.

and from Dallas, Texas at ftp://viemeister.com/pub/gutenberg

And for you Gopher types:

gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu:70/11/Gutenberg

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