From: niko@r-node.gts.org (Slavtcho Nikolov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re:FAQ soc.culture.bulgaria V0.1
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:09:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: r-node.1992Nov06.230958.11649
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)

In article <92310.224340IO11412@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <IO11412@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
(Dragomir) writes...

>Hi, this is the very first release of the Bulgarian FAQ.
>Any comments and corrections are more than welcome. So are
>contributions. Please help make the FAQ really helpful and
>interesting. After the initial discussion I will post the
>FAQ in news.answers, where other similar FAQs are posted.
>Dragomir
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>=============================================================================
>Q1. Email cites and addresses in Bulgaria (by Daniel Kalchev)
>                    List of the EUnet sites in Bulgaria
>                    -----------------------------------
>C   uucp     domain        Town        Description
>    name     name
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>U   acmbul   acmbul.bg     Varna       The Bulgarian Chapter of ACM
>U   aubg     aubg.bg       Blagoevgrad
>U   bulpac   N/A           Varna       RSS1/BULPAC Varna
>U   csy      iinf.bg       Sofia       Intstitute of Informatics at BAS
>UIL danbo    danbo.bg      Varna       The Bulgarian EUnet Backbone
>             digsys.bg     Varna       Digital Systems Co.
>P   doganov  N/A           Varna       Doganov
>U   lanix    lanix.bg      Burgas      Lanix
>U   libvar   libvar.bg     Varna       Scientific Library Varna
>U   marsel   N/A           Sofia       Mars Electronic
>X   marvel   N/A           Plovdiv     Marvel Ltd.
>U   mgu      mgu.bg        Sofia       University of Minning and Geology
>U   omex     N/A           Sofia       Open Market Service
>U   paros    natsoft.bg    Varna       Naturella Soft Ltd.
>U   pegas    pegas.bg      Varna       Pegasus Group Ltd.
>P   rmri     N/A           Romania     Institute of Oceanology
>P   umlvarna unimasters.bg Varna       Unimasters Logistics
>U   usw      usw.bg        Sofia       United Software Writers Ltd.
>U   virbus   virbus.bg     Sofia       Laboratory of Computer Virulogy at BAS
>Notes:
>    The first colimn reflects the connectivity to the backbone state:
>        U - UUCP, over dialup or X.25
>        I - TCP/IP
>        L - LAN connection (local machine)
>        P - Pending connection
>        X - Disconnected
The number of E-mail sites in Bulgaria is (constantly ?) growing.
The list provided above is incomplete.
For the latest updates read "comp.mail.maps" or ftp ftp.uunet.ca or some
other archive. What needs to be added are the BITNET addresses of sites in BG,
as there are no known reference sources where one can get this information.
Also, it would seem that people sometimes have trouble sending e-mail to UUCP
hosts in BG because the list of local Internet forwarders does not contain
references to the 'bg' domain. The FAQ should explain that in such cases the
full path to the remote UUCP host has to be specified, as in the following
example: if your mail to user@host.bg bounces, use any of the following addres-
ses instead -- relay.eu.net!bg!host!user 
          or   relay.eu.net!uucp!host!user
          or   relay.eu.net!host.bg!user
          or   user%host@relay.eu.net
Any other relay network that recognizes the remote 'bg' hosts can be substituted
for 'relay.eu.net' in the example above, for instance 'ariadne.csi.forth.gr'.
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>=============================================================================
>Q9. Where can one get Cyrillic font drivers. (by Nikolay Mehandjiev, Yossi
>      Gil, J"org Knappen)
>Theses files are available for anonymous ftp download as:
>        cs.ubc.ca:/pub/pickup/terse/fntutl12.zip
>This ZIP file includes several utilities for manipulating and loading
>EGA/VGA text mode fonts. Included is also my collection of EGA/VGA
>text mode fonts in various heights and styles. You will find there
>fonts for Hebrew, Cyrillic, handwriting style, Smallcaps and much more.
>Here is the archive content:
>FILE NAME        SIZE   DESCRIPTION
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>withfont.com     8138   Run cmd using given E/VGA text mode font
>loadfont.com    10222   Load text mode font to EGA/VGA adapter
>dumpfont.com     2332   Dump text mode font from EGA/VGA adapter
>charset.com      2294   Display all chars in current font
>breakcpi.com     8548   Extract fonts from DOS 3.3+ *.cpi files
>withfont.hlp     1176   Help screen extracted from WITHFONT.COM
>loadfont.hlp     2310   Help screen extracted from LOADFONT.COM
>dumpfont.hlp      915   Help screen extracted from DUMPFONT.COM
>charset.hlp      1085   Help screen extracted from CHARSET.COM
>breakcpi.hlp      810   Help screen extracted from BREAKCPI.COM
>wega.bat           53   Demo: Einstein on EGA with no Hebrew ROM
>wvga.bat           51   Demo: Einstein on VGA with no Hebrew ROM
>fntcol11.zip   147962   Coll. of 90 text mode fonts for EGA/VGA
>yogiprog.inf     7110   List of programms/utilities by Yossi Gil
>_desc.btm        1206   Creat 4DOS desc. for 'Font utils' dist.
>files.lst        1247   List of files in the 'Font utils' dist.
>================================================================
>Total:         195459 bytes in 16 files
>Here is the help screen of one of the utilities:
>WITHFONT: Run program on EGA/VGA with a given font. Ver 1.2. Aug 21 1992
>Copyright (c) 1991 by Yossi Gil, P.O.Box 3148, Jerusalem, ISRAEL.
>  Usage: withfont <fontfile> <command> [args]
>Will run <command> on <args> using a text-mode font loaded from <fontfile>.
>The fontfile name should be of the form *.fYY, where YY is the font height
>in pixels (a 2 digit number in the range 04-32). If the font height cannot be
>determined from the file name, then it is set o the file size divided by 256.
>The font load will not be effected by command changing the video mode.
>WITHFONT is a good cure of the MS-DOS 3.3+ nlsfunc, CodePage blurb.
>EXAMPLE      withfont cp862.f16 hebedit hebfile
>BUGS         o   Executed command should not go TSR.
>             o   Internal commands ('DIR' and such) will not be located
>             o   Does not work on adapters other than EGA/VGA
>SEE ALSO
>             _, loadfont, dumpfont, charset, breakcpi
>COPYING POLICY Copy freely for private use. Usage as part of any commercial
>  package is under the same restrictions as of Rhaul Dehsi ZOO program. If
>  you cannot obtain ZOO, you cannot use 'withfont' commercially.
>From: slclancy@UCI.EDU (Steve Clancy)
>I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:
>pd1:<msdos.screen>
>LRUS31.ZIP      Cyrillic screen/keyboard driver for EGA/VGA
>Driver of cyrillic screen/keyboard for  EGA/VGA.  Ver.3.10.  This driver
>allows the use of the cyrillic alphabet on IBM-compatible computers
>with EGA, VGA, SuperVGA, EG-3000(A) etc.  With CGA, Mono and Hercules
>adapters special ROM is needed.  The driver supports all EGA modes
>except special 9x14 text font, which is practically never used.  By Dr.
>Eldar A. Musaev, St. Petersburg, Russia.
>Sender: usenet@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de (USENET News System)
>a) cyr-ifve (also called cmcyr). Russian characters only. Blend very well with
>the cm-fonts.
>b) wncyr. Also including zusatz letters for byelorussian, serbian and
>makedonian cyrillic. Blend less well with cm, but still good.
>Both fonts are available as METAFONT sources from the famous TeX servers
>(ymir.claremont.edu, tex.ac.uk, ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, and others)
>=============================================================================
I am afraid that cs.ubc.ca:/pub/pickup/terse/??fonts...does not exist any more.
One of the largest collections of Cyrillic fonts/drivers is available from
archive.umich.edu:/msdos/dos_fonts/cyrillic but it seems that there are no
descriptions of its content (other than the *.doc files contained in each 
archive).

Uspehi,
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