Subject: a new gopher server

From: Shann Wei-Chang <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:57:26 CST

I would like to announce a gopher service from my department.  It has
a database of about 600 pieces of poems and lyrics stored according
to author names.  There are also larger works like lun'yu^ (=W;y).
Most of the files are from CHPOEM-L and the archive in ifcss.org.
The service is provided in classic Chinese with Big-5 coding.

Enjoy.

-Shann

================ About this server =====================

This is a DECstation 5000/125, belongs to the Department of Mathmatics
of National Central University (0j%_$$%!$j>G).  It's hostname is
dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (*F)Y), IP address 140.115.25.3.  This gopher
server is normally established at port 70.

This server virtually serves information maintained by other sites at
Chiao Tong (%f3q) and Sun Yat-Sen ($$$s) Universities in Taiwan, as
well as some international sites with general interests and our local
concerns in mathematics.

Locally, we do maintain a database for the gopher world.  Basically,
Chinese literature.  The editor knows it doesn't sound like a
responsibility of a Mathematics department.  It just so happen that
a few faculty members here support this idea and they find volunteers
to manage it.

The database is divided into three top level directories:
        Buddhism
        Chinese Literature
        Chinese Poem

Below this top level, classic Chinese in Big-5 code is used for some
directory names.  If your gopher client cannot read it, you may
(1) Change to another client program;
(2) Get some hint from the server at National Chiao Tong University,
    read the file "About the CSIE Gopher" (%f3q$j>G8j0T$u5{(t).
(3) Ignore it, since your client may still read the Chinese contents.

Directories and files have self-explained names, I hope.

Acknoledgments is impossible to be complete at this moment.  Most of
the materail were input by friends on CHPOEM-L over a few years.
Another portion were input by innocent students who took an introductory
computer science course.  Larger works are stored in "Chinese Literature".
They are acknoledged more properly in each file. In either cases, there
are typos or missing characters that wait for your correction.

Please direct contributions, suggestions and corrections to
        Wei-Chang Shann (3f:{9|)
        [email-masked]