Hello, Nathan!
29 Jun 06 at 19:17 you wrote to me:
I am doing well and keeping myself busy with the bbs
I ran a BBS long ago..
Cool... this time is re emergance of bbses..... :-)
Not here.. :-(
I work Hstocking at a retail store overnight shift.
What do you do? What job?
Well I'm a University student (sociology) but I also work in a college - I help to conduct experimental work.
but I learn alot about Hrussia
Oh, really? When was it?
And.. Do you speak Russian? ;-)
and when I get some echo messages here, its hard to understand when Hits directed to me with all the garbled messages... is there a dos program I Hcan use to change front in my windows dos scrren when I am on my bbs... :-) HWith that garbvled, I thought they were speakingf russian to me maybe typed Hin english but not have the right code page...
Here is a text about that.
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RUSSIAN_TUTOR: How to configure your system to read and write cyrillic text. v0012 [2005-06-04]
This text contains information by:
Aleksej R. Serdyukov, 2:5020/24000,
http://deletesoftware.geekworld.dk/
Anatoly Kovalenko, 2:5020/1042.46,
http://antol.msk.ru/
Paul Gorodyansky,
http://RusWin.net/
Russian FidoNet uses the "DOS alternative" codepage CP866.
It should be used in MS-DOS (and Windows' text mode) and OS/2&eCS.
Windows GUI uses CP1251.
*nix often use KOI8-R.
Internet uses KOI8-R and CP1251.
Cyrillic-aware FidoNet-news gates use KOI8 for the news side.
=== DOS and Windows text mode:
Just get a cyrillic driver, like one of these:
USSR.COM by Podstreshnyi A. K. - v3.4.13 from 1996.
Requires 800b to 17Kb of memory. Turn on/off showing of cyrillics by RCtrl-RShift, turn on/off typing cyrillics by RCtrl, pseudographics by
RShift.
Full:
http://deletesoftware.fatal.ru/temp/ussr351.rar
The main file only
http://deletesoftware.fatal.ru/temp/ussr.com
KEYRUS - the most popular one.
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/#Programs
RK.COM
=== Windows GUI
To read/write Russian in Win XP/2003 do the following:
Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and language options:
Languages: Details -> Add -> Russian
Advanced: Select the language to match the language version of non-Unicode programs you want to use -> Russian. NB! This changes the codepage for all non-Unicode programs, so if you use German or any other non-English programs, they will look not so good. This is not needed for web browsing.
For Win 98/ME/2000: Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Languages -> Add ->
Russian.
For Unicode programs (see the earlier note before this!) press "Set default". For Windows 95/98/ME, see also
http://RusWin.net/cyr9x.htm
After these steps Russian programs such as Test Znaniy begin to show Russian letters. These modifications don't affect the visibility of English letters.
See also:
http://RusWin.net/
=== OS/2 and eComStation
Using Warp 3 with fixpak 35 and higher, or Warp 4, or anything newer, you
can just choose "RU441" keyboard layout in Selective Install.
Otherwise, change two lines in CONFIG.SYS to
CODEPAGE=866,850
DEVINFO=KBD,RU441,O:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
The "850" means that you can switch to CP850 in the current session using
CHCP.
Better layout switcher is Keybmon - you will have to patch some files and delete some other files to disable the default switching mechanism. Info
about it will be added here just when you ask it.
When configured correctly, this should read "TECT": ÆàæÆ.
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Be happy, Nathan!
np: (WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston's NPR News Station)
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