======================================= Frequently Asked Questions for CHPOEM-L ======================================= ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= 1. How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe CHPOEM-L 2. Where to find Chinese Text 3. Some computer problems rarely meantioned in other FAQs. 4. Acknowledgement ===================== 1. What is CHPOEM-L ? ===================== CHPOEM-L is an electronic mailing list devoted to sharing and _discussing_ Chinese poems, either yours or others. Postings in either uuencode GB, HZ, or uuencoded BIG5 are welcome. Try to use as reliable a source as possible when typing poems, and identify it in your message. As a general rule, try to use the following format: line 1: AUTHOR TITLE ; (Poet's name, a space, then title of poem) line 2: ; (Leave a blank line before starting text) line 3: ...text... ; (Text of poem) ... .... your name and email id at the end To subscribe to CHPOEM-L, send email to either LISTSERV@UBVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. Leave the subject line blank. For the text of the message, enter the following line only (filling in your name as appropriate): SUB CHPOEM-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname Once you subscribed to CHPOEM-L, you can communicate with other subscribers by sending email to either CHPOEM-L@UBVM.BITNET or CHPOEM-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. If you wish also to send your postings to some newsgroups, you can do so on your own by putting the newsgroup address @usenet.ucs.indiana.edu on the cc: line. You should replace with your favoriate newsgroup name such as alt.chinese.text, chinese.rec.misc, etc. To unsubscribe from the list, send the message SIGNOFF CHPOEM-L to either LISTSERV@UBVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. =============================== 2. Where to find chinese text? =============================== Chinese text, postings to this list as part of, is collected and archived for your convenience by the following nice people: Wang Huangxin ( wang@pennmess.physics.upenn.edu ) collection can be accessed via anonymous ftp and gopher from ifcss.org(129.107.1.155):/china-studies/huangxin-collection cnd.org(132.249.229.100):/pub/ifcss.org/china-studies/huangxin-collection lunix.met.kth.se(130.237.16.204):/pub/poem Read README in the same directory for details. Huangxin-collection is rich in poetry. Li Xiaoyu collection can be accessed via anonymous ftp and gopher ifcss.org(129.107.1.155):/china-studies/xiaoyu-collection cnd.org(132.249.229.100):/pub/ifcss.org/china-studies/xiaoyu-collection Xiaoyu-collection is jiang4gang1-like, including novel, prose, classics, etc. Shann Wei-Chang collection can be accessed by anonymous ftp and gopher from dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw(140.115.25.3):/pub/shann/chinese/* All of the files are coded in BIG5 format. Shann-collection concentrates on poetry and classics. Besides these collections, there are follow serial publications in chinese language: Hua-Xia-Wen-Zhai, a weekly chinese magazine by CND, can be accessed via anonymous ftp and gopher from cnd.org(132.249.229.100):/pub/hxwz ifcss.org(129.107.1.155):/hxwz Other on line electronic chinese magazines can be accessed via anonymous ftp and gopher from ifcss.org(129.107.1.155):/org/* cnd.org(132.249.229.100):/pub/ifcss.org/org For example, Xin1Yu3Si1, is in xys subdirectory under org. alt.chinese.text, a USENET free discussion newsgroup in chinese language, is selectively achived at: ifcss.org(129.107.1.155):/act All files are coded in HZ format. =========================== 3. About Chinese Computing =========================== Most commonly used softwares can be obtained from ifcss.org[129.107.1.155]:/software directory via anonymous FTP. Read 'catalogue' first. Also some FAQs in ifcss.org[129.107.1.155]:/china-studies/net-resources may also help. The following items are rarely mentioned in other FAQs so I include them here. ======================= File format conversions ======================= mac uses CR as end of line. msdos uses CR/LF as end of line. unix uses LF as end of line. The file formats are automatically converted by file transferring programs, but sometimes not. The following are solutions: mac to unix: unix-prompt> tr '\015' '\012' < infile > outfile mac to msdos: can be done by add-lf.exe FTP'able from ifcss.org:/software/dos/utils msdos to unix: can be done by flip.exe FTP'able from ifcss.org:/software/dos/utils msdos to mac: see below unix to msdos: can be done by flip.exe FTP'able from ifcss.org:/software/dos/utils unix to mac: see below Mac users: You have it the easiest. The Mac will interpret all three possible end-of-line markers without difficulty. Beware, however, that downloading files in text mode causes line- feeds to be replaced with carriage returns--creating double carriage returns when downloading DOS files. Avoid this by always downloading files in binary mode. ================ uuencode problem ================ Some uuencoded file has a little bug, i.e. there is an "short file" error at the end of the uudecoded file, usually garbage tacked on to otherwise complete text. Fix: please replace all spaces AFTER the "begin 644....." line with single-back-quotes (`). And if there's a blank line between the last line of encoded text and the "end" line, please type a ` there as well. Another solution is to get uuencode.c and uudecode.c from ifcss.org in the directory of /software/unix/utils compile them, and use them for uuencoding and uudecoding. ================== 4. Acknowledgement ================== I would like to thank all contributors to this list and all of the maintainers of the chinese text archives. This list is not useful without them. -- XiaoFei Wang ( xiaofei@ifcss.org )