Welcome to the text corpora distribution list! I hope that you will be able to share information, questions, answers, programs etc. with the other members on the list. The list is unmoderated, but if necessary, it may be moderated in the future. It is NOT a LISTSERV list, the addresses are added/deleted manually. Please send administrative messages to: CORPORA-REQUEST@X400.HD.UIB.NO and not to the list. The address CORPORA@X400.HD.UIB.NO should only be used for messages to the whole list, not for retrieving files etc. The list will be logged on the machine nora.hd.uib.no, see below how to access the log files. It will be possible to upload files, either by mail to corpora-request (text files and binhex/uuencoded files) or by FTP. Files can also be sent on diskettes. The list is hosted at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities in Bergen, Norway. Information stored at our machine nora.hd.uib.no can be accessed in several ways: FILESERV ======== The machine nora.hd.uib.no has been established as a mail based server for the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities. Information is grouped in different directories, some of which have information in Norwegian only. Some of the available directories: corpora Information from the distribution list CORPORA, log files etc. icame International Computer Archive of Modern English info Information on texts, projects etc., mostly in English konferanser Information on conferences mac Macintosh programs ncch Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Information in English nettinfo Information on network resources, mostly in English pc MS-DOS programs unix Unix programs The server is called FILESERV and runs the DECWRL archive server. FILESERV accepts three types of commands; several commands can be placed in the body of the mail message. However, the results will be sent in one file, so do not request several large files in one message. The commands are: Help Help file Index Top level index Index Index for a directory send Fetch a file in a directory Example: You want to get the index for the CORPORA and the KONFERANSER directories and the file log.started.920918 (and other log files) in the CORPORA directory. Send the following two notes ("index" and "send" commands cannot be put in the same message, the "send" commands will then be ignored): ---------------- To: fileserv@nora.hd.uib.no Subject: whatever index corpora index konferanser ---------------- To: fileserv@nora.hd.uib.no Subject: whatever send corpora log.started.920918 send corpora log.started.921006 send corpora log.started.921116 send corpora log.started.930113 ---------------- FTP SERVER ========== The files are also available via anonymous FTP from nora.hd.uib.no (129.177.24.42). To make use of this server, you must have access to a machine connected to Internet with TCP/IP and a program running the FTP protocol. Example: To get the directories of the server write the following: ftp nora.hd.uib.no anonymous your-e-mail-address cd pub dir The server has a directory for uploading, this is writeable but not readable. cd incoming (binary) (if transfer of programs or 8-bit data) put xx-program.zip Please send a note and a description to CORPORA-REQUEST if you upload any files! Other commands: get mget (to get several files, example: mget *.ex) cd (change directory) cd .. (up on level in the directory tree) binary (set binary transfer, for transfer of programs or 8-bit files) ascii (set transfer of 7-bit text data) GOPHER SERVER ============= The information is now also available through our Gopher server at nora.hd.uib.no (port 70). If you are connected to the Internet (with TCP/IP protocol), you can get client versions of Gopher for MS-DOS, Macintosh and Unix. Gopher is a tree structured menu system and several hundred servers are connected. Main menu on the nora.hd.uib.no machine: Internet Gopher Information Client v1.02 Root gopher server: nora.hd.uib.no --> 1. About this Gopher at NCCH. 2. Andre Gopher tjenere/ 3. Corpora (distribution list)/ 4. Forskjellig (various) Info/ 5. Humanistisk datasenter/ 6. ICAME (Text Corpora)/ 7. Konferanser (Conferences)/ 8. NCCH file servers. 9. Nettverk (Network) Info/ 10. Nordic Linguistic Bulletin/ 11. Norwegian Computing Centre for Humanities/ 12. Programs/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 Questions about these services can be directed to: Knut Hofland (knut@x400.hd.uib.no) Humanistisk datasenter, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Harald Haarfagres gt. 31, N-5007 Bergen, Norway Phone +47 5 212954/5/6 Fax: +47 5 322656