From: cuong@haydn (Cuong T. Nguyen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: [TECH] Vietnamese freeware for DOS/Windows release
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:28:33 GMT
Reply-To: cuong
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University

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** Vietnamese VISCII/VIQR-Compliant Freeware for DOS and Windows **
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(My apologies to those receiving multiple copies of this for
 being on multiple mailing lists.)
 
The TriChlor group is releasing Vietnamese software for
the DOS and Windows environments, including:

******** WHAT ********

    DOS:
	VietDOS:    Vietnamese environment for DOS (Cu+o+ng M. Bu`i)
	Viet78:	    VIQR/VISCII conversion facility (Cu+o+ng M. Bu`i)
	VNElvis:    Vi-clone for DOS (ported by Cu+o+ng M. Bu`i)
	ButViet:    CGA/EGA/VGA/Hercules compatible Vietnamese
		    word processor (Vu+o+.ng Nguye^~n)
	VPrint:	    Epson dot-matrix printing facility (Vu+o+.ng Nguye^~n)
	Viet:	    Vietnamese word processor (Ho`a G. Nguye^~n)
	VLaser:	    Laser printing facility (Ho`a G. Nguye^~n)
	VNNhac:	    song collection (Hu`ng P. Ho^`)

    The VietDOS environment allows you to use Vietnamese in existing
    applications.  Printing from DOS currently includes the above-listed
    printer types; Vu+o+.ng Nguye^~n is planning to ad\d support for the
    IBM printers in the near future\.
    
    Windows:
	WinVNKey:   Vietnamese environment for Windows (Cu+o+`ng T. Nguye^~n)
	System fonts: screen font collection which allows you to use
		    Vietnamese in window titles, menus, icon titles, etc.
		    (various contributors, including: Ho.c DD. Ngo^,
		    Cu+o+`ng T. Nguye^~n, Thi.nh N. Nguye^~n, Khoa D. To^n,
		    and Toa`n Tru+o+ng)
	TrueType fonts: TrueType font collection which allows you to
		    use Vietnamese in Windows applications (Cu+o+ng M. Bu`i
		    and Cu+o+`ng T. Nguye^~n)
	ThiTap:	    poetry collection (Cu+o+ng M. Bu`i)

    The Windows environment is fully integrated and allows you to
    use Vietnamese in word processors, Excel, Paint, NotePad, Quicken
    for Windows, etc., including editing and printing to all Windows
    supported printers.
    
******** HOW ********

    The various software components will be through the following channels:

    1. Mailserv (e-mail) request through Saigon.COM, maintained by Ti'n Le^\.
       Please do not send messages directly to Ti'n; instructions for using
       the automated mail service are attached below.

    2. Possible Mailserv (e-mail) request through phsys.com, being
       considered by Hu`ng P. Ho^` and to be announced by him if/when it
       is available\.

    3. By post on two floppy disks: send request message to
    
       E-Mail:
    		TriChlor@Haydn.Stanford.EDU (e-mail), or
    		
       Post:
    		TriChlor Software
    		3388 Burgundy Drive
    		San Jose, CA 95132

       Please specify (a) your postal ad\dress, and (b) the preferred
       disk type (3.5 or 5.25), and include $5 to cover the cost of
       the disks, disk envelopes, and postage\.  The floppy version will
       include ready-to-use setup facilities to make your installation
       job easier, plus you will have everything in one place\.  Please
       make check payable to Cuong T. Nguyen (acting accountant).

******** HOW MUCH ********

All software is provided free of charge as copyrighted freeware
(that means you can have it for free and make as many copies for
as many friends as you like, but we reserve the copyright in order
to prevent unauthorized modifications and to prevent people from
selling it to unsuspecting users---we want to keep the freeware
free).

We definitely are not going to profit from this.  The $5 covering
mailing expenses doesn't come anywhere close to representing the
huge effort everyone, named and unnamed, has put into this, both in
terms of time, keyboard stress, head strain, and out-of-pocket
expenses to buy compilers, font converters, hardware, etc. to bring
VISCII/VIQR compliant software for the Vietnamese community\.

If you like what we are doing and would like to to help us meet
expenses---which are quite real and considerable---your contribution
in any amount is always welcome, but never required.

Thanks,

Cu+o+`ng
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From: tin@smsc.sony.com (Le TinTin)
Subject: [TECH] Instruction for accessing Viet files
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 00:19:56 GMT

The mailserver at Saigon.COM has been updated to contain the latest
files from the anon FTP archive at sonygate.  This is for those of
you without FTP access.  You can retrieve the files through email
requests.

You may also dialup Saigon.COM directly and download the files.
The front end to it is Station Zebra, a BBS.  It is located in the
San Francisco Bay Area.  The phone number is 408-739-1520.  Login
with user id of bbs.

Cheers,
Tin Le


-----[ MailServer Instructions ]--------------------------------------------

Vietnet and Viet software MailServer archive

  This is the MailServer archive for Vietnet and Viet software.  It is
  a duplicate of the anonymous FTP archive.  The purpose of this
  mailserver is to allow those without ftp access to retrieve these
  files.

  The MailServer looks for its instruction in the body of the message.
  It ignores the subject.  These are some of the instructions that it
  understands:

	LIST directory_name
	DIR directory_name
	CD directory_name
	GET filename
	HELP

  Please make sure that your email address in the header of the message
  is good.  The MailServer uses that to send the files to you.  I've
  gotten a lot of bounced messages from those of you with unreachable
  email address.

  Here is an example session:

	$ mail mailserver@saigon.com
	Subject: <anything here>
	DIR viet.net
	GET viet.net/vnterm.tar.Z
	EOF (type a Control-D)

  The email address of the server is mailserver@saigon.com
  Some of you who are in the UUCP domain might have problem sending mail
  to an Internet style address.  You could try the following bang paths:

	uunet!sonyusa!szebra!mailserver
	claris!szebra!mailserver
	zorch!szebra!mailserver
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