From: dskim@eng.umd.edu (Daeshik Kim)
Subject: Han.* News Group
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:49:58 GMT
Organization: What Org?

	This is the requested rough translation of the announcement
	by 'sysadm@worak.kaist.ac.kr.'


Seok-Chan Lee  . ( : KAIST)

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   This is also available from ftp.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/news/Hangulnews
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 1. Han newsgroup

 Han news-group is to be used only inside Korean Internet Domain (*.kr)
 following USENET NEWS standard using 8 bit clean transport, and it will
 not exported out to any other NEWS-SERVER's out of *.kr Internet Domain.

 In order to encourage the data exchange using Hangul encoding system,
 we are planning to exchange domestic (Korean) BBS or mailing list service.

 The followings are the currently activated NNTP NEWS-SERVER on Internet:

	Daeduk: news.kaist.ac.kr [143.248.1.200]
	Seoul: kum.kaist.ac.kr  [128.134.1.1]

 The followings are the currently available NEWS-GROUP's under 'han'
 sub tree and the subject covered.

 han.alt.ietf		Archive for ietf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
 han.alt.ietf.announce	Archive for ietf-announce@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
 han.announce		Announcement on misc. event
 han.archives		Information on anonymous ftp archive on *.kr domain
 han.bbs.ara		Uploaded from ARA BBS
 han.bbs.hitel.fun	Uploaded from HiTel BBS 'fun' board (Humor)
 han.bbs.hitel.plaza	Uploaded from HiTel BBS 'plaza' board (Gossip)
 han.bbs.kids		Uploaded from KIDS BBS
 han.comp.ai		Artificial intelligence
 han.comp.hci		Human Computer Interaction.
 han.fun		Fun stuff (Humor).
 han.games		Computer related games.
 han.general		About Korea in general (similar to soc.culture.korean).
 han.mail		Electronic Mail.
 han.network		Network in general.
 han.network.hana	HANA/SDN.
 han.network.kreon	KREN.
 han.network.kreonet	KREONet.
 han.news		Hangul News Sytem.
 han.news.admin		System Admin. on NEWS.
 han.org.osia.sg-inet	OSIA Internetworking.
 han.test		Test.

2. How to use Hangul News.

 - What's needed to read Hangul.

	First, you need Hangul emulator.

	If you're on UNIX system directly connected to Internet,
	you can use 'hanterm' (X client) or 'hcode'.

	If you're using MS-DOS/PC-DOS machine and dial out to the remote
	host which is on Internet, you can use IYAGI as a terminal emulation
	and communication software.

	If you're using UNIX system and dial out to the remote host which
	is on Internet, you can use 'hanterm' and some communication
	sofware that supports 'Transparent' mode, which does not strip
	out any bits from the data transferred - one example of that
	is 'c-kermit' - currently the most updated version is 5A - 188
	BETA version.

	In any cases including your local 'tty' for hanterm if you have one,
	you have to make sure your 'tty' status; you can set this by
	'stty pass8' or 'stty -parenb -istrip cs8'.

	In most of systems except SUNOS, 'stty pass8' is not supported
	and it may not even report the failure so that you won't know
	it worked or not; so please make check the status by using
	'stty -a'.  If it didn't work, do 'stty -parenb -istrip cs8'.

	Also keep in mind that when the above 'tty' setup is done,
	any more sub-shell creation from that 'tty' will inherit your
	current 'tty' characteristics.

 - How to edit Hangul.

	Currently, jstevie & nemacs support 8 bit Hangul coding.

 - Where to get them.

	Various Hangul related tools including the emulators and the editors
	can be downloaded from anonymous ftp archive site "ftp.kaist.ac.kr"
	under the directory - " ~ftp/pub/hangul ".

	For more detail, check out Hangul.FAQ.


 - You can use any existing News Reader such as rn, trn, tin, gnus...
   as long as you have above emulator and editor.

 - If you don't have any news reader installed on your system,

	1) Ask your system admin. if it's really not available
	   even though that node is on Internet.

	2) Ask your system admin. if he can install one in case 1).

	3) If none of the above cannot be done, you have to install one
	   by yourself.

	4) Currently, available popular news-readers are
		rn, nn, trn, xrn, gnus, tin.

	5) In order to get the source code of those news-readers,
	   look for your local/close anonymous ftp sites.

	   And here's one of my favorite anonymous ftp site:
	   ftp.uu.net in directory /networking/news/readers.

 - How to use News Reader to read Hangul.

	In order to use Hangul editor when you post, do the following:

	1) if you're installing your own news-reader, set the default
	   editor as stevie or elvis.

	2) if you're using existing news-reader or if you don't want
	   to do 1), define environment variable VISUAL or EDITOR
	   to "stevie" or "elvis".

	In order to connect to Hangul News Server,

	1) You have to tell your news-reader which server or what
	   Internet address.

	   You can do that by defining environment variable NNTPSERVER
	   to be news.kaist.ac.kr [143.248.1.200].

	   In case of csh or tcsh, you can do this by

	   "setenv NNTPSERVER news.kaist.ac.kr"
	   "setenv VISUAL ~/bin/stevie"

 - Currently, news.kaist.ac.kr allows the access to only the sub-newsgroups
   of "han.*".  So please do not try to read any other regular USENET
   news-groups; and use the one near you if you need them.

 3. Misc.


 - Currently, you can post an article via email to news.kaist.ac.kr
   News Server. You have to put the news-group name as the receiving
   USER ID at news.kaist.ac.kr such as:

   To post an article to a news-group xx.yy.zz,
   send the article to xx.yy.zz@news.kaist.ac.kr.

   This only supports the NEWS-GROUPS that 'worak.kaist.ac.kr'
   supports, which are alt, bit, comp, gnu, han, kaist, misc, news, rec, sci
   and talk. (sysadm@news.kaist.ac.kr)

   Note that you have to convert Hngul codes to ISO2022-KR in this case
   since UNIX email (SMTP) only supports ASCII.

 - For more detailed info. on Hangul, refer to (uhhyung@kaist.ac.kr)
   ftp.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/hangul/HANGUL.faq.

 - When you have more than one NEWS-SERVER (dskim@eng.umd.edu).

	In any case, you have to maintain separate NEWSRC files for
	each different NEWS-SERVER.

	News Readers generally find out which NEWS-SERVER they have to
	connect from the environment variable $NNTPSERVER.

	Some news readers like rn or trn also look for the env. var.
	$NEWSRC to find the info. about all the news-groups and articles.

	Some news readers like tin do not look for the env. var. $NEWSRC
	but instead, they use command line arguments to pass those
	info. to the news-readers.

	1) first, read the man. page for your news-readers,
	   you can do, "man <your-news-reader>".

	   Make sure that you read man. pages for related things since
	   you may find something useful you didn't know before.

	   Most of times, everything related to your news-reader
	   would be installed in some other directory than /usr/bin
	   or /usr/share/man (/usr/catman in SYSV).

	   Check out /usr/local/bin & /usr/local/man or
	   /usr/local/news to find where they are.

	   Then, make sure they are included in your search path
	   ($path), and $MANPATH for manual page.

	2) if you cannot find the man. page at all, then I can
	   help you to find the copy of the man. page -

	   please do this if there's no other way.
	   - email to DAESHIK.KIM@sprintintl.sprint.com

	3) You can make your life a lot easier by hacking with
	   your shell for this usage of multiple NNTP NEWS-SERVER's.

	   Here's some example; but keep in mind that this is
	   JUST AN EXAMPLEi and there are zillions of other ways to do this.

	   With csh or tcsh, I put this in my .cshrc/.tcshrc.

	   a) rn

#	in order to avoid confusion.
alias rn 'echo Use myrn or hrn'
alias myrn \
	'setenv NNTPSERVER my.local.nntp.server; \
	setenv NEWSRC ~/newsrc/$NNTPSERVER; \rn'
alias hrn \
	'setenv NNTPSERVER worak.kaist.ac.kr; \
	setenv NEWSRC ~/newsrc/$NNTPSERVER; \rn'

	Note that you can replace 'trn' with 'rn' above if you
	have 'trn'; and the <my.local.nntp.server> is the hostname
	of your local default NNTP NEWS SERVER.

	  b) tin

#	in order to avoid confusion
alias tin 'echo Use mytin or htin'
alias mytin \
	'setenv NNTPSERVER my.local.nntp.server; \tin -f ~/newsrc/$NNTPSERVER'
alias htin \
	'setenv NNTPSERVER worak.kaist.ac.kr; \tin -f ~/newsrc/$NNTPSERVER'


	 In both above examples, my NEWSRC files are
	 ~/newsrc/my.local.nntp.server and ~/newsrc/worak.kaist.ac.kr.

	 And I removed my ~/.newsrc file in order to avoid any confusion
	 and initially, I'll be creating '~/newsrc/my.local.nntp.server'
	 by simply copying my '~/.newsrc.'

	 When you first use news-reader to connect Hangul NEWS SERVER,
	 do not have any NEWSRC file; your news reader will create one
	 for you.

	4) You can also achieve the same result by writing a simple
	   shell script; the advantages of using shell script are
	   that it will work with any SHELL you're in and
	   it will hide the shell environment variable used unless
	   you export it (less side-effect) - and I'm pretty sure
	   you can find someone to help you on this easily.


Addition by Daeshik Kim

FINAL NOTE:

	Even though ISO2022-KR is ASCII code, it is not 8 bit clean code
	and is supported by MIME standard since it uses characters between
	0x00-0x20; therefore, currently it will not go through NEWS transport.
	(Any correction?)

	For above reason, please make sure to use KSC5601 Hangul Encoding
	system when you post Hangul Articles.

	In order to avoid the heavy net-traffic hours of 'kr' Internet Domain,
	please avoid working hour in Korean time using this NEWS-SERVER.

	The best time, as I heard, will be 3:00-5:00 AM in Korean Time.

	It might be a good idea to see if any one is working on Console
	of the server via finger.

	As you all know, please trim down the articles you'll be
	posting to the min. in size, especially the quoted.

	Finally, posting article via email might be the best way
	to save the net-load of *.kr Internet Domain, if it's stable.

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