rzhu@poppy.uwaterloo.ca (Rupert Zhu) (04/02/91)
Archive-name: news/news-archives/cnd-cm/1991-04-01
Archive-directory: ahkcus.org:/gb/cnd-cm/ [192.55.187.25]
Original-posting-by: rzhu@poppy.uwaterloo.ca (Rupert Zhu)
Original-subject: Hua Xia Wen Zhai --- Chinese Magazine for Network
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
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Introduction to Hua2 Xia4 Wen3 Zhai1
-- A New CND Chinese Article Transmission Service
0.Table of Contents:
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1. Objectives ....................................................... 09
2. Sources and Contributions ........................................ 22
3. Standard and Software ............................................ 32
3. Subscription ..................................................... 17
5. Archives ......................................................... 28
Appendix
A1.How to use anonymous ftp and retrieve viewers and utils via ftp .. 58
A2.How to uudecode/encode and How to contribute to CND-CM .......... 47
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1.Objectives: ...................................................... 09
Hua Xia Wen Zhai is a newly established branch of China News Digest(CND).
Its English name is CND Chinese Magazine(CND-CM). The objective of CND-CM
is to promote Chinese culture and Chinese computing in oversea Chinese
community. Editors of CND-CM are from the same group of volunteers who
edit China News Digest (English daily service). CND-CM will distribute
selected Chinese articles to computer networks on a weekly basis,
depending on the availability of Chinese articles and editor's spare
time.
2.Sources and Contributions: ........................................ 22
CND-CM is a digest-type service. Most articles are selected from
diskettes contributed from oversea Chinese magazines. A few Chinese
magazines and organizations have already contributed their past or even
current issues of their publications to CND. Among them are Square, China
Spring, IFCSS Newsletter, Press Freedom Guardian. All the articles
selected will be properly credited to their original authors and
publishers (contributors). We will enlarge our sources by contacting more
magazines in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hongkong in the future.
CND netters are encouraged to contribute Chinese articles directly to
CND-CM(see Appendix 2 for technical details). The articles can be either
the works of your own, or from a well-established magazine. In the later
case, we will ask the permissions from the original author and publisher
to distribute the Chinese articles on academic computing network.
Editors will try their best to select quality articles based on the
criteria of Zhi1 Shi4 Xing4, Qu4 Wei4 Xing4, and Zi1 Liao4 Xing4 (being
informative, educational, of common interest, and collectable.). There is
no implication that any selected article necessarily reflect the point of
view of the editors. Readers are urged to exercise their own discretion
to judge the truthfulness and value of the articles.
3. Standard and Software ............................................. 32
Basically, there are two different standards in Chinese Computing,
GuoBiao(GB) and BIG-5. GuoBiao, as the Chinese term implies, is national
standard, whereas BIG-5 is a popular code in Taiwan and Hongkong. GB code
is adopted in many systems, such as CCDOS and Macintosh Chinese Operating
System 6.0x. CND-CM will distribute Chinese articles in GB. Readers can
read CND-CM articles directly by the Chinese softwares using GB standard.
Dr. Yan Yongxin has contributed his BYX1.1 Chinese editor to Public
Domain. It is available by 'anonymous' FTP (see appendix 1). The articles
are also readable (printable) by BIG-5 software (some are freeware, see
appendix 1) after converting GB to BIG-5.
GB files are binary ones. Network mail only supports ASCII(text)
transmission. Chinese GB article must be converted to plain text file at
distributor's end before transmission, and be converted back to binary
file at recipient's site. UUENCODE/UUDECODE is a very popular scheme to
convert file between binary and text. It is available on all Unix
machines. There are also UUENCODE/DECODE versions for DOS and many other
systems(See Appendix 1).CND-CM will use UUENCODE standard to distribute
Chinese articles. Readers can use UUDECODE to convert text file back to
Chinese file in GB. The whole process is shown below:
Editor | Done by CND-CM | Done by listserv | Done by Readers | Viewer
Chinese ------> GB --------> mail text ---------> GB -------> Chinese
input/edit | uuencode | distribute | uudecode | display
Due to lack of Chinese GB viewers/editors for various mainfram systems.
Our readership will be confined mainly to PC users at this stage.
However, if one knows how to view a Chinese file in BIG-5 format, one can
read the magazine as well (See part4). We hope that more Chinese text GB
viewers on various systems will be developed by netters in the near
future.
4. Subscription ...................................................... 17
Subscription and distribution will be dealt by listserv. To subscribe
CND-CM, send mail to listserv@uga.bitnet or listserv@uga.uga.edu. The
subject line is optional, the listserv command should be in the first
line of the mail text: sub ccman-l <your full name>
To unsubscribe the list, send mail containing 'signoff ccman-l' command
to the same address. Don't write anything else in the mail containing the
listserv commands. Bitnetters can also send commands to listserv by
interactive message.
Please DO NOT send command to ccman-l@uga.
To let BIG-5 software users read CND-CM more easily, we will also post
converted copies of CND-CM in BIG-5 to the HKU BIG-5 Chinese articles
relay station at ahkcus.org. Send your requests and questions about big5
Chinese articles relaying to car-request@ahkcus.org (CAR stands for
Chinese Articles Relay).
5. Archives .......................................................... 28
Uuencoded GB articles of CND-CM will be available from listserv database
system at uga.bitnet. To get a list of available files, send the
following command to listserv:
index ccman-l
The command to retrieve certain file is:
get filename
Again, the command should be send to listserv instead of the list itself.
CND is very grateful to Aaron Cheung of AHKCUS who made archives of all
CND branches available by 'anonymous' ftp. CND-CM articles in original GB
code will be in /gb/cnd-cm subdirectory of anonymous@ahkcus.org. Internet
users can retrieve articles in GB (uudecoding is not needed) from that
anonymous file server directly.
The first issue of CND-CM will be distributed on April 5, 1991, the 15th
anniversary of 4.5 TAM movement. CND-CM hopes that readers will enjoy
reading articles in Chinese on a mainly English-mediated computer
network:-) If you have any suggestion and comment, mail them to
cnd-cm@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
People currently in CND-CM working group (ie, on the alias cnd-cm@bronze)
are:
Zhu, Ruopeng(Editor for the 1st issue) <rzhu@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Xu, Gang <gxu@kentvm.bitnet>
Ding, Jian <b36jdx@utarlvm1.bitnet>
Guan, Weihe <inr@uga.bitnet>
Wei, Yaqui <yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Yao, Minghui <yaom@asucp1.la.asu.edu>
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| Editor of this CND issue: Yao, Minghui |
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|To subscribe CND, Send one-line command 'sub china-nn <your full name>'|
| to listserv@asuacad.bitnet or listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu |
| To subscribte CND-CM, send 'sub ccman-l <your full name>' to |
| listserv@asuacad.bitnet or listserv@uga.uga.edu |
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============== A P P E N D I X ==============
A1: What is anonymous FTP? How to get viewers and utilities via FTP? ..58
To read CND-CM, the first thing you do is to get viewer and utilities via
anonymous ftp and install them on your system.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a subsystem to allow users to transfer
files between the local system and remote systems. On internet, there
are many public file servers that archive data files and software of
various topics. People can login these accounts as 'anonymous' (anonymous
must be in lower case for those servers on unix system) and retrieve
files from or contribute to these 'anonymous' accounts.
To login anonymous server on a remote machine, type in the following line
at your system prompt: ftp domain.name. (eg, ftp ahkcus.org ) At login
prompt, enter 'anonymous' as user name. Password can be anything, but
your real id on your local machine is preferred. After login, use 'dir'
to list available files in the current directory, use 'cd' to change
directory (eg, cd pub). 'get' is a command to retrieve files from remote
machine. Before retrieving files, you may need to specify the mode by
commands 'bin' and 'asc'. For example, GB files and .exe files are binary
ones. You need to transfer them in binary mode. So before issuing 'get'
command, type in 'bin' to tell machine to transfer files in binary mode.
Many files in anonymous ftp are compressed ones. You need to uncompress
before installing them on your system. A common compression format for
MSDOS is .zip. You need unzip utility to retrieve files. The one we
provided in ahkcus.org is pk110eu.exe. Three BYX1.1 package in ahkcus.org
are self-extracting zip file. You don't need any utility to extract
files. Unix compressed file has an extension '.Z'. It can be uncompressed
by 'uncompress' command on Unix. '.tar.Z' is compressed unix tape
archive. To extract files from such an archive file, uncompress first,
then untar the '.tar' file. Example:
uncompress b2g.tar.Z
tar -xf b2g.tar
The following is a brief list of anonymous ftp that archive China-related
software and documents(The info in the following list is mainly from
ftp.sites file at crl.nmsu.edu):
(1)ahkcus.org [IP: 192.55.187.25 ]
Articles in BIG5 from HKU (big5/), IFCSS Newsletters in GB(gb/ifcss-
nl/). CND Chinese Magazine in GB (gb/cnd-cm/, no articles in this
directory yet.) CND archives(English) (cnd-g/, cnd-us/, cnd-ca/, cnd-ep/)
HKU Chinese News utilities (src/), GB<--->BIG5 conversion utilities for
unix and vms (/src/, /src/vms), BYX1.1 Chinese Editor (/src)
(2)crl.nmsu.edu [IP: 128.123.1.14]
BYX1.1, X11 fonts, GB<--->BIG5 conversion utilities, HKU Chinese articles
and readnews utilities.... many more (pub/chinese/, pub/misc/)
(3)cs.purdue.edu [IP: 128.10.2.1]
cclib16* fonts. more (pub/ygz)
(4)hanauma.stanford.edu [IP: 36.51.0.16]
Pinyin pronunciation tables,Pinyin->GB code table, etc (pub/zhongwen/)
(5)june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]
Lots of interesting stuff. (pub/yueng)
You are encouraged to browse these anonymous ftp servers and get the
software that are useful for your system.
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A2: How to uudecode mails distributed by CND-CM? How to contribute a
Chinese article to CND-CM? ........................................ 47
(1) Installing UUDECODE: If you are on a Unix system or a system that has
uudecode on-line, you do not need to do anything. If your system has not
installed uudecode, get it from anonymous ftp. There are several versions
out there. DOS and VMS versions are available at ahkcus.org. The programs
for DOS are uudecode-dk20.exe(self-exrtacting, David Kirschchbaum version
2.0), toaduu.zip (Toad version), and uudecode.bas in /src directory.
For the .bas file, download it to your PC in ASCII mode, at DOS prompt,
type gwbasic uudecode, then uudecode.com and uuencode.com will be
generated on your disk. For the .zip file, you need to ftp in binary
mode, then unzip with the utility provided in the same directory. VMS
user can get it from /src/vms subdirectory. It is a compiled version. Use
binary mode to get it to your system. Add following line in your
login.com file: $ uudecode:==$Userdisk:[userdir]uudecode.exe
Example: $ uudecode:==$disk1:[zhang]uudecode.exe
(2) Uudecoding: To uudecode, the first step is to save CND-CM mail to a
file. In unix mail, type: s 'filename' or w 'filename'. In vms mail,
type: extract 'filename'. All the uudecode programs provided in ahkcus
anonymous server will can the mail header and tailer automatically. But
some uudecode versions may not have this function. In that case, you need
to edit the file you saved, cut mail header and all the messages before
'----- cut here -----' line. At system prompt, type
uudecode 'filename'
Then, the original GB binary file will be generated on your disk in
seconds. This file can be viewed/edited by Chinese viewer/editor.
If you need to transfer or download GB files, Don't forget use binary
transfer mode. You can also download the text file to your PC first in
text(ascii) mode, and uudecode the uuencoded text on your PC.
(3)uuencoding and Contributing Articles to CND-CM
To contribute a Chinese article to CND-CM, you need to enter the article
in any Chinese editor. Contributions can be on any topics, from Chinese
literature, poetry, to politics.
Before mailing your contribution to CND-CM, convert the Chinese article
to ascii file with uuencode program: uuencode filename (eg. uuencode
poem.gb). After running uuencode program, a file with an extension .uue
(poem.uue) will be generated on your disk. The file is uuencoded text
file, which can be mailed over computer network. To let CND-CM editor
process your contribution more easily, please add a note in English at
top of the file. The note should contain the following info: (1)Title of
the article, (2)Author, (3)Publisher of the article, (4)Chinese editor
you used (ie, the article is in GB or big5?). Add a line -----cut here---
to separate the note and uuencoded text. Send uuencoded Chinese article
to cnd-cm@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu .
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