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I have received several e-mail messages from Internet readers 
of k12.lang.russian expressing interest in obtaining the Russian 
files by ftp to psg.com.  I apologize for not making it clearer
that the history files were not yet there:

"The Russian files were provided by the previous Moderator,
Mike Kelly.  My BBS number is (503) 245-4961; the word processors
and literature files are also available by ftp to psg.com."

I sent the following attempted explanation to one of the inquirers, 
and thought I should also post it here:

"The Russian files reside on my FidoNet node.  The history collection
was added after the word processors and literature files, and had not
been physically moved to the Internet node.

I didn't move them the day I posted the message because when I asked
the sysadmin at psg.com for permission, he said he wanted the files
in a different compression format than I had them and the Index in 
a certain format, and I had to wait for him to send me a copy of his 
Index.  

Then I got _really_ busy this week.

I have just sent the Russian history files and index to the sysadmin's 
FidoNet node, but he has to manually move them to the Internet node,
and I just received a "robot" message that he's out of town until
January 18th.  I'll try to get someone else to move them, if
possible.  If that doesn't work (i.e. if you telnet to psg.com 
and rhis-dli.lzh isn't in the \pub\k12\russian <I think>
directory), try again toward the end of January."

I should also explain that I am a librarian who is interested in
facilitating the exchange of information via telecommunications,
but I am *not* an active user of the telnet and ftp capabilities
of Internet.  So I may easily have made an inadvertant error in
the technical part of the above attempted explanation.

In addition, I am not a student of Russian and I don't understand
how high bit ASCII characters can be "read" and rendered as
Cyrillic by something other than the word processor in which
they were produced.  So please be forewarned that Mike Kelly
used PC-Write Lite, vers. 1.03 to produce the files.  

--Janet
jmurray@psg.com


 



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