From: fekete@bcvax1.bc.edu
Subject: Hungarian electronic resources FAQ
X-Last-Updated: 1992/05/15
Followup-To: soc.culture.magyar
Supersedes: <hungarian-faq_717570039@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: fekete@bcvms.bc.edu
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:01:47 GMT
Expires: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:00:15 GMT

Archive-name: hungarian-faq
Last-modified: 1992/05/14
Version: 0.1

Updated versions of these Frequently Asked Questions of Hungarian interest 
(with some answers) are posted to Usenet and the email lists concerned 
about every two weeks.

-Q: What services are available in Hungarian language?
-A: a number of them from Hollosi Information Exchange. Email to 
gtoth@phoenix.princeton.edu with Subject: HIX and in the body of the mail put 
HELP or SUBS service-name, for getting help or subscribing, resp. The 
postings are sent out daily in digested form. The HIX server can also send 
out archived files - use HELP SENDDOC to learn about this feature.
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HIRMONDO     -- daily news (edited in Budapest)
Radios Hirek -- news summary from the Hungarian Radio
SZALON       -- moderated political discussion forum
FORUM        -- unmoderated political discussion forum
TIPP         -- politics-free discussion, tips etc.
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 - my server ZFIX handles user-configurable email discussion: 
AGORA; to get its description in Hungarian send email to fekete@bcvms.bc.edu 
with Subject: AGORA$SEGITS (the body of these messages gets ignored).
 
-Q: Are there Hungarian-related services in (primarily) English?
-A: HUNGARY@UCSBVM is a discussion group designed to provide a means of rapid 
communication between all those with interests in Hungarian issues. To 
subscribe to the discussion group, send an e-mail message, without any 
subject, to the list server address, "listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet" containing the 
single line:
subscribe hungary your name
with your own name inserted in place of the phrase "your name."
Once you have subscribed, any messages which you want to send to the group 
should be sent to the group address, "hungary@ucsbvm.bitnet".
 
-Q: what about Usenet?
-A: [Glad you asked :-)] There is soc.culture.magyar - with discussion mostly 
in English, sometimes bilingual, and occasionally Hungarian posts. If you're 
not using Usenet, ask around your site - it's available on many (if not most) 
Internet hosts, normally known as network news service. If you're under Unix, 
try the newsreaders rn, nn, vn or trn; under other operation systems it may 
be newsreader or of similar name. If you don't have local access, try TELNET 
bbs.acs.unc.edu or freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, where you can request permanent 
guest account with Usenet privileges (among other things).
 If you want to receive soc.culture.magyar posts by email, you'd get them from
AGORA (see above) - or can request separately emailing to fekete@bcvms.bc.edu 
with Subject: ZFIX$SUBS=SCM.
 To learn more about Usenet use the archive site pit-manager.mit.edu - start 
with the file /pub/usenet/news.answers/news-answers-intro ( that lists a 
number of alternative archives located in Europe as well).
  If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archives
by mail server as well. Send an E-mail message to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on
separate lines for more information.

-Q: Are there any other connections with Hungary, such as BBS networks 
(Fidonet etc.), Internet Relay Conferences (IRC) and so one?
-A: I have no definite answer for these (although heard mentioning them), 
please someone enlighten us!
 
-Q: How to contact someone in Hungary by email?
-A: If you do not know the address, that may be an even taller order then for 
most of the Internet. Hint: the audience of TIPP (see above) is probably the 
best - and that of Usenet is the worse to ask for help given the distribution 
of readers.
 
-Q: How to handle the Hungarian accented letters?
-A: There is a number of solutions, mostly based on TeX. For starters check 
out SENDDOC programs etex.Z and hion.Z from HIX (see above) and also the 
babel system for LaTeX with Hungarian specific option, available from FTP 
sites kth.se or goya.dit.upm.es.
 
-Q: What's the single most important tool in locating useful files in the 
wilderness of Internet archives (I realize it's not a Hungarian question)?
-A: It's undoubtedly ARCHIE! Telnet to one of the following servers, login 
archie and type help to get you started (and amazed).
        archie.ans.net (USA [NY])
        archie.rutgers.edu (USA [NJ])
        archie.sura.net (USA [MD])
        archie.unl.edu (USA [NE])
        archie.mcgill.ca (Canada)
        archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe)
        archie.au (Australia)
        archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (Great Britain/Ireland)
Email access is possible thru archie@<INSERT ONE OF ABOVE ADDRESSES HERE>, put
Subject: help  

-Q: How should I send suggestions, hatemail etc. concerning this FAQ?
-A: I hereby solicit any additions, corrections, suggestions or questions. My 
primary email address is fekete@bcvms.bc.edu. *Please* note that due to the 
high volume of email I regularly have to sift messages without attentive and 
informative Subject: get deleted without reading (and putting "READ THIS" 
wouldn't do any good ;-) )! Begin the Subject: line with the string ZFIX$KERDES
(followed by a descriptive subject of your choice) to enable automatized mail 
handling.

-- Zoli Fekete	fekete@bcvms.bc.edu
"For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand
of my betters and my equals in my calling." - Rudyard Kipling
Newsgroups: soc.culture.magyar