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From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: Two-step ftp available at ICI Bucharest
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:37:09 GMT
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal


From: <estaicut%roearn.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  ROEARN News
To: hancu%drebin.crim.ca@pucc
Original_To:  JNET%"hancu%drebin.crim.ca@pucc"

Draga Marius,

        Iarasi nu ti-am mai raspuns de mult. Cu accesul la Internet, nu am
obtinut inca inregistrarea. Noi facem acesul in doi pasi. Facem login cu
telnet pe un calculator la Viena si apoi ftp oriunde. Dupa ce aducem ce ne
intereseaza la Viena, facem ftp intre Viena si noi. Pina la Viena viteza este
f. mare, intre noi si Viena este 9600. In faza asta este satisfacatoare. Cind
vor aparea mai multi utilizatori vor fi intirzieri mai mari. Eu am instalat
un program de e-mail care merge si in Internet, dar pina nu obtinem
inregistrarea nu putem transmite direct.
        La noi este legata deja IFA. Miron are adresa
MIRON%ROIFA@VM.UNIVIE.AC.AT. I-am transmis mesajele de la tine si lui.
        Ieri am instalat ROIPB. Cred ca ai primit mesajele de la ROIPB.
Irinei Athanasiu poti sa-i trimiti mesaje pe adresa
IRINA%ROIPB@VM.UNIVIE.AC.AT. Deocamdata nu au linie inchiriata, dar vor intra
odata pe zi pe linie comutata si isi vor prelua mesajele de aici. cel putin asa
am stabilit.
        Radu Bercaru, cel care a luat legatura cu Irina pt. Unix este de la noi.
Deocamdata, pare ciudat dar nu avem calculator pe care sa-l instalam. Avem
un 386 si un 486, dar pe acestea s-a cumparat un UNIX AT&T si nu este spatiu
pe disc sa puna si varianta de la tine. Cel cumparat nu este folosit pt.
retea pt. ca nu merge decit cu placi Ethernet (Western Digital,  ) care nu se
gasesc la noi. Noi avem NE1000 si NE2000. A venit cineva de la Cluj cu o placa
Western Digital, am vazut ca merge si atit, pt. ca a plecat cu placa.
        Speram sa facem rost de un calculator 386/486, dar mai dureaza.
        Universitatea Tehnica Timisoara are deja calculator si soft de acces
la retea, dar inca nu s-a conectat. Nu are modemuri. Luna viitoare va aparea
ROUTT in fisierul de rutare in retea. D-l Jurca se ocupa de nod la Timisoara.
Cred ca mai dureaza o luna pina va aparea in retea.
        Despre Cluj, Brasov, nu pot sa-ti spun nimic acum.
        Academia Chisinau incearca sa se lege azi pe linie comutata ca terminal
la ICI. Va avea adresa ACADMOLD%ROEARN@vm.univie.ac.at.

        Eugen Staicut

--------
I sent them today drivers for ne1000/2000 (source code). M. Hancu.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: mihai@sep.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Mihai Popovici)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Moldova and "Dniester"
Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:24:48 GMT
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Distribution: world
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Here are two excerpts from the RFE bulletin.
It seems the Russians are aiming not only at the
left side of the river Nistru (the "Dniester" area) but
also at the rest of Moldova.  What's next, chunks of land
to the right of the river Prut?

|> MOLDOVAN CEASE-FIRE MONITORS ALERT YELTSIN. In a statement
|> forwarded to Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 23 January, the
|> Moldovan side of the joint commission to monitor the cease-fire
|> listed growing violations of the Snegur-Yeltsin armistice
|> convention by the "Dniester" insurgents, charging that they are
|> being condoned by Russia's 14th Army and "peacemaking" forces.
|> The insurgents have banned the remaining Moldovan authorities from
|> entering Bendery, prevented the return of Moldovan refugees,
|> introduced "border guards" and Russian Cossack units into the
|> security zone, and are maintaining fortifications there. Noting
|> that "the situation is becoming unstable precisely where Russian
|> forces are deployed," the Moldovan side expressed concern that
|> "the Tiraspol leaders and the pro-imperial conservative forces
|> outside Moldova" may be preparing to resume the hostilities.
|> Vladimir Socor , RFE/RL, Inc.


|> LEBED URGES TERRITORIAL CHANGES IN MOLDOVA. Lt.-Gen.  Aleksandr
|> Lebed, commander of Russia's 14th Army in Moldova, warned in
|> Pravda of 20 January that hostilities may resume "at any moment"
|> in the city of Bendery on the right bank of the Dniester and
|> called for a referendum to determine whether the city should
|> belong to Moldova or to the left-bank "Dniester republic".
|> Largely Russified under Soviet rule, Bendery is currently
|> controlled by the Russian insurgents who have pressured part of
|> the Moldovan population into leaving the city. At stake along
|> with the city is a large surrounding rural area on the right
|> bank, claimed by the "Dniester republic" and infiltrated by its
|> forces. In the same interview, Lebed called for the "Dniester
|> republic's" accession to the Russian Federation under a status
|> similar to that of Finland within Tsarist Russia. However, Lebed
|> strongly implied in his interview that the independence of
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> Moldova as a whole was only a temporary phenomenon and predicted
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> that the Moldovan leaders will face criminal prosecution.
|> Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.


Cheers
Mihai
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: Florin Manolache: linux in Iasi (trip impressions)
Date: 22 Jan 93 03:07:29 GMT
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal

Florin was in Iasi recently. These  are his impressions in the area of
computers. I hope those of you with some Moldovian roots (like myself)
might find this interesting. M.H.
-----------------

Return-Path: <bogdan@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 13:42:47 +0200
From: bogdan@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il (Florin Manolache)
To: hancu@drebin.crim.ca
Subject: info

- au o retea cu 386
- nici un Sun
- nu stiu cind vor instala (probabil curind). Trebuie intii sa se 
lamureasca cu documentatia pentru ca am reusit sa ii contactez
destul de tirziu - miercurea trecuta.
- cel care m-a trimis la Voicu este dl. Maxim. Ei nu au la catedra
hardul necesar dar Voicu la automatica il are. Dl. Maxim nu parea
ca stie despre existenta linux-ului la Bucuresti cu toate ca il
cunoaste pe dl. Bodea. In rest nu cunosteau nimic.
- am incercat la un prieten care are 386 sa fac boot de pe diskete.
Treaba a mers. Se pare ca nu sint probleme tehnice cel putin aparent.
Oricum prietenul nu poate sa instaleze linuxul din cauza lipsei
unui harddisk adecvat.
- persoana cheie este Voicu. Se pare ca este singurul in tema
cu calculatoarele din cei cu care am discutat. Mi-a promis ca
difuzeaza linuxul si la informatica si ca este dispus sa ajute
pe oricine care are nevoie.
- din cauza sarbatorilor si a retelei telefonice proaste nu
am reusit sa contactez decit pe dl. Maxim (cu multa greutate si
insistenta). In rest nimic.

In Iasi invatamintul superior are cam putine resurse in domeniul
calculatoarelor. Majoritatea lucreaza inca pe 8086. In schimb,
cum scria dl. Bodea, gasesti cel mai nou si performant soft
pentru DOS (chiar daca oamenii nu au inca pe ce sa-l ruleze
il aduna si asteapta zile mai bune) - evident luat prin piraterie.
Am mai gasit la Facultatea de Metalurgie pe cineva care are 
vreo 3 PC-uri pe 386 dar mi-a explicat ca nu este interesat de
linux pentru ca are tot ce poate exista pentru DOS. Oricum eu am 
lasat peste tot adresele din tara de unde poate fi luat linuxul.

Florin

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Romania/Moldova News from RFE/RL, 22 Jan 1993
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:21:58 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report                No. 14, 22 January 1993

ROMANIAN OPPOSITION SAYS ITS OFFICES BUGGED. Opposition
politicians said on 21 January that listening devices have been
found in their offices by reporters from the independent daily
Evenimentul zilei using detectors bought in the US.  The
politicians accused the government and its intelligence service of
being behind the affair. Adrian Severin, deputy leader of the
National Salvation Front, told reporters that microphones were
found in offices belonging to his party and two other opposition
groups. Emil Constantinescu, chairman of the Democratic Convention
of Romania and spokesman for the Liberal Party-Young Wing
confirmed the findings. Constantinescu spoke of a "serious
violation of the law." Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.

MOLDOVAN OFFICIAL MAKES CASE AGAINST UNIFICATION. Writing in
Nezavisimaya Moldova of 19 January as cited by Basapress, Deputy
Foreign Trade Minister Artur Gherman, son-in-law of President
Mircea Snegur, listed historical, economic, and political concerns
in advising against unification with Romania.  These include that
Moldova would find itself "at the discretion of a new center' with
regard to investments, credit, and technical assistance, never
getting a fair share"; Moldovans would again become "second-class
citizens"; local administrative and law enforcement bodies would
be replaced and run directly from Bucharest; the left bank of the
Dniester would be lost, and the right bank itself may be turned
into "another Transdniester" for Romania by an alienated
"Russian-speaking population" and also by pro-independence
Moldovans; and the situation would exacerbate tensions in
Transylvania, turning a Greater Romania into "a source of tension
in Europe." To avoid the fate of "a primitive country of chaos and
lawlessness," Moldovans "must firmly consolidate [their] own
statehood." Vladimir Socor , RFE/RL, Inc.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: geoffg@sco.COM (Geoff Galitz)
Subject: What's in a name (translation)?
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:48:09 GMT





	Could anyone out their tell me what the Romanian equivalent of
the name Geoff or Jeff would be?

	Much thanks...



-- 
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	(Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely,)
	power attracts the corruptable.		      Frank Herbert
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         Geoff Galitz ** geoffg@sco.com ** or ** galitz@igc.org
                Santa Cruz, Central Coast California, US 
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From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: bitnet alternative address
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:53:25 GMT
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal

Hi: 

It seems that the addresses for ICI and IFA work better as in the following
route (at least from the place where I am)

estaicut%roearn.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca

instead of the Vienna connection

ESTAICUT%ROEARN@VM.UNIVIE.AC.AT

Try everything, it will generate some excitement.
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Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
3744, Jean-Brillant, Bureau 500, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1P1, Canada 
phone: (514) 340-5907, fax: 514-340-5777, email: hancu@crim.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: ungur@magritte.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Dorin Ungureanu)
Subject: Re: $/leu
Organization: Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:57:47 GMT

To: 
Subject: Re: $/leu - soc.culture.romanian #88

In article <2b59e39b.7cf@orchid>, lchirica@orchid (Laurian Chirica) writes:
|> 
|> nacu@husc11.harvard.edu (Serban Nacu) writes:
|> >
|> >The official currency exchange rate on Jan 10, 1993 was 1$=460lei.
|> >This rate seems to be artificially mantained by the government. It is
|> >virtually impossible to buy $ at this rate. 

I think the problem here is not the fact that the rate is or is not
artificialy maintained by the government. The fact is that because 
Romanian exports are very weak, there is no hard currency to be bought
in the country no matter what the exchange rate would be.

|> 
|> ... [interesting info deleted] ...
|> 
|> Pardon my ignorance. Is it now legal for Romanian citizens to
|> own foreign currency?  Also, is currency exchange among private
|> parties legal, or is it still a "black market" transaction?

You are allowed as a private citizen to hold and exchange foreign
currency as long as all transactions with currency are conducted
with a firm that is legaly authorised to buy and(or) sell foreign
currency. Many of these firms are private, and offer better exchange
rates that the state banks.

|> 
|> Just curious ...
|> 
|> --Laurian

Dorin Ungureanu

ungureanu@esat.kuleuven.ac.be


Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Subject: Bine ati venit!
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:19:44 GMT


Hi:

My impression is that Eugen Staicut and the other people at ICI
Bucharest are doing a very good job. I just got this message from
Academia Moldova Chisinau:
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Return-Path: <@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca:ACADMOLD@ROEARN.BITNET>
Date: 	Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:32:00 -0500
From: <acadmold%roearn.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  Raspuns la Test
To: hancu%crim.ca@PUCC
Original_To:  JNET%"hancu%crim.ca@PUCC"

Multumesc pentru mesaj.
Sper sa putem "conversa" normal in continuare.
Pe curind,
Florin Paunescu
-----------------------

This means that Academia Moldova is connected to bitnet via ICI
Bucharest (same day email). I assume that the best address is 

acadmold%roearn.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca, from North America, and
acadmold%roearn.bitnet@vm.univie.ac.at, from Europe.

As my father was born in Cahul (Moldova, East of Prut), while I was born
in Barlad (Moldova, West of Prut), you might understand that I have
special feelings in connection to this.





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Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Romania/Moldova News from RFE/RL, 25 Jan 1993
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:24:24 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report            No. 15, 25 January 1993

BELGRADE RELEASES ROMANIAN SHIPS. The Romanian Transport Ministry
announced on 22 January that authorities in Belgrade have
released three Romanian tugboats with their barges after
detaining them for three weeks in apparent retaliation for
Romania's enforcement of UN sanctions against the rump Yugoslav
state. In a statement broadcast by Radio Bucharest, the ministry
said that three other vessels are waiting for permission to leave
Yugoslav ports. The developments came a day after the Serbian
tugboat Bihac, towing six barges, managed to continue through
Romanian waters by threatening to blow up a cargo of 6,000 tons
of fuel if stopped.  On 23 January three more Serbian tugboats
and 24 barges left the Romanian port of Braila, claiming that
they were returning to Reni, Ukraine, where they were loaded.
Later they changed direction, heading for Yugoslavia. Dan
Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.

LEBED URGES TERRITORIAL CHANGES IN MOLDOVA. Lt.-Gen.  Aleksandr
Lebed, commander of Russia's 14th Army in Moldova, warned in
Pravda of 20 January that hostilities may resume "at any moment"
in the city of Bendery on the right bank of the Dniester and
called for a referendum to determine whether the city should
belong to Moldova or to the left-bank "Dniester republic".
Largely Russified under Soviet rule, Bendery is currently
controlled by the Russian insurgents who have pressured part of
the Moldovan population into leaving the city. At stake along
with the city is a large surrounding rural area on the right
bank, claimed by the "Dniester republic" and infiltrated by its
forces. In the same interview, Lebed called for the "Dniester
republic's" accession to the Russian Federation under a status
similar to that of Finland within Tsarist Russia. However, Lebed
strongly implied in his interview that the independence of
Moldova as a whole was only a temporary phenomenon and predicted
that the Moldovan leaders will face criminal prosecution.
Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Romania/Moldova News from RFE/RL, 27 Jan 1993
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:39:10 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report              No. 17, 27 January 1993

US REACTS TO EMBARGO VIOLATIONS. The United States has called for
strict enforcement of the embargo imposed against rump Yugoslavia,
Western agencies reported on 26 January. State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said the US has again told the
governments of Bulgaria and Romania that they have the authority,
as well as the responsibility, to stop Danube vessels suspected of
sanction-busting. Boucher added that the UN Security Council
Committee on Sanctions, which convened last weekend, is of the
same opinion. He also revealed the State Department has been in
contact with Ukraine, which is believed to have provided the fuel.
Meanwhile, early on 27 January, agencies report that the fuel
convoy led by the tugboat Bihac has already reached Serbian
waters. Reporting from the Bulgarian port of Ruse, BTA named three
more tugboats pulling barges and "navigating without impediment"
on the Danube. Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL, Inc.

ROMANIAN-HUNGARIAN TALKS.  A Hungarian Foreign Ministry delegation
arrived in Bucharest on 26 January for talks on the draft of a
bilateral treaty.  Radio Bucharest did not elaborate on the
delegation's agenda, but said that the meeting is part of a
Romanian initiative to spur relations to Hungary.  Disputes
between the two country's have often centered on treatment of
Romania's large Hungarian minority.  On the other hand, Romania
insists that the new treaty should include a clause stipulating
that Hungary had no territorial claims on Romania.  Dan Ionescu,
RFE/RL, Inc.

HUNDREDS MARK CEAUSESCU'S BIRTHDAY.  Between 200 and 500 people
commemorated Nicolae Ceausescu's 75th birthday at his graveside on
26 January. Western agencies report that the nondescript grave in
Ghencea cemetery, generally accepted as Ceausescu's burial site,
was adorned with a new headstone displaying a red star and an
inscription hailing the former communist dictator as "great
national hero." Participants in the ceremony, most of whom were
elderly and staunch communists, said that life was better under
Ceausescu, who, they claimed, was killed by "agents of the Western
imperialist forces." Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.

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From: LKEYS@BUPULA.BU.EDU (clementine)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: WAKE UP, ROMANIA
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:10:45 GMT
Organization: BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Pulmonary Center
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

Could you suggest where I might find a recording of "Wake Up, Romania"?  I'm
living in Boston, but would be happy to find it anywhere.  Many thanks.	
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Subject: Free Unix to Romania: FLOW OF BOOKS continues 
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:55:56 GMT

Letter to Prof. Bodea from IPB
-------------------------------


Dear Professor Bodea:



Our flow of Unix reference books to you continues with the following books:

- Make, funding by Serban & Christina Gheoghe
- Unix in a Nutshell, funding by Serban & Christina Gheorghe
- System Perfomance Tuning, funding by Dragos Luca
- Tcp/ip Netwok Administration, funding by Dragos Luca
- NFS & NIS, funding by Alexandru & Mariana Degeratu
- DNS & BIND
- Programmming Perl


Each of the books has been emblazoned with the names of the donors.

All the books are donated to the Library of the Department of
Electronics of the Polytechnical Institute of Bucharest, Romania. As
previously specified, we would very much appreciate if you, in your
position of de facto curator of these books, will make them available
widely in Romania, especially to the universities and research
institutes, but also to large and small companies. And of course, we
expect the books to be officially registered with the library.

The books will be shipped to you Friday, Jan. 22, by surface mail.

The next shipments will be directed to Timisoara, should our financial
support continue with the same vigor. I think that for the time being,
your group and the people in Bucharest have enough Unix books to digest. 
We are sorry for not providing more copies, but...

Marius 
----------------
For our supporters:

NOW IT'S THE TURN OF TIMISOARA, DON'T LET UP, PLEASE. Please send your 
financial contributions to my home address

Marius Hancu
Queen Mary Road, Apt. 610
Montreal, Quebec, H3V 1A5
Canada

They will be promptly acknowledged and converted into books critical for
the specialists in Romania.

Involve your friends/acquaintances!
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Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
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phone: (514) 340-5907, fax: 514-340-5777, email: hancu@crim.ca