From: robert@cse.fau.edu (Robert France)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: FAQ
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:28:46 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

The monthly introduction and charter is coming out early this month given
the time of year! 

There may be a change to the ftp site next year - I'll see if I can move it
to FAU - sooner or later the Maryland folks will get tired of me doing all
those remote logins (which I often do to keep up to steam on the discussions
in the group - I get limited feed here at FAU for some strange reason!) and
I may lose access. Ofcourse, I welcome any volunteers ... (I live in eternal
hope!).

Let me take this oppurtunity to wish all group readers
a safe and enjoyable season and best wishes for the coming year. I hope the
coming year will see the group as active (and even more) as it is.


INTRODUCTION TO SOC.CULTURE.CARIBBEAN
=====================================

Welcome to soc.culture.caribbean. This unmoderated newsgroup provides
a forum for discussions on cultural, economic, sporting and political aspects
of Caribbean/West Indian life. The official language is English, but persons
may post in any language spoken within the Caribbean (e.g. French, Spanish,
French/English patois, Creolese).

The following contributions to the group have been stored at an
anonymous ftp site for access by group readers - some of these contributions 
answer frequently asked questions while others contain information that
may be useful to the general readership. The information in these files
is taken from postings to the group and I have made no major attempt to verify
it, thus, I CANNOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION
CONTAINED IN THESE FILES. I've tried to indicate the sources of information
in all cases. Also, please allow me some mileage on typos,
misspellings etc. 

The following files are available via anonymous ftp from the host
ftp.umiacs.umd.edu in the directory /pub/carib (see below for how to
access a file using ftp):

File             Content
----------------------------------------------------------------
History.car      Original names of Caribbean/WI regions
                 Selected postings on Columbus 
                 Origins of carnival

Lang.car         Creolese words and their meaning

Music.car        Caribbean music (currently contains list of Sammerson's
                 top 15 `92 SOCA favourites)

Org.car          Summary information on Caribbean electronic information
                 sources, networks/listservers/bulletin boards etc., 
                 societies, clubs etc.

Recipe.car       Caribbean recipes

Tour.car         Tourist summary information (currently contains addresses
                 and telephone numbers of tourist information centers in the
                 States).

Awards.car       Awards granted to caribbean nationals (to be set up soon).


Transfering files using the file transfer program (ftp)
-------------------------------------------------------
To access the above files using ftp (file transfer program) do the following:

          Type                          ftp ftp.umiacs.umd.edu
          At the name prompt, type      anonymous
          at the password prompt, type  (your user id)
          Type                          cd pub/carib
          To transfer a file, type      get remote-file local-file
                                  (local-file refers to the file you want
the remote-file to be copied to on your machine - if ommitted the local-file
is given the same name as the remote-file, e.g. typing `get Org.car'
results in the remote file Org.car being transferred to a locally created
file of the same name on your machine)

          To end session, type          bye


Comments on the contents and contributions, corrections, and suggestions
for other types of information that may usefully be shared as above are welcome
and should be emailed to me (robert@cse.fau.edu).

Robert France
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton
FL 33431

office tel. (407) 367-3857

Best wishes to all!

Robert

-- 
Robert B. France                              |    Tel: (407) 367-3857
CS&E Dept, Florida Atlantic University,       |    Fax: (407) 367-2800   
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991                     |    email: robert@cse.fau.edu
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