By Lars Aronsson Date December 1, 1995 FTP ftp.lysator.liu.se File /pub/runeberg/README PROJECT RUNEBERG free Nordic e-text & art on the Internet since 1992 mailto:runeberg@lysator.liu.se http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/ Snail-mail Lysator, Linkoping University, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden Welcome to Project Runeberg's FTP archive! For more information about the project itself, see our World Wide Web pages at the address above. WARNING This FTP archive is not fully up to date. The only up-to-date presentation of Project Runeberg's texts is through WWW. Character sets Because Project Runeberg's texts are in Scandinavian languages, the ASCII character set fails to represent all letters of the alphabet. Different computers use different extended character sets (using eight bits per character, where ASCII uses only seven). To make everybody happy, this FTP archive stores multiple copies of each text, one for each character set. Be sure to use IMAGE or BINARY mode for transfer. For a text called boye.txt, unix/boye.txt is written in ISO 8859-1, msdos/boye.txt is written in IBM PC code page 850, mac/boye.txt is written in Apple Macintosh/Unicode 1.0. Compression To save storage space, and to reduce transfer time, some of the files have been compressed. There are different schemes for compressing files. For a text called boye.txt, unix/boye.txt.gz is compressed using GNU zip, List of files The list of files has moved to a separate file called CATALOG. In the catalog, the "status" field, "endless" means the electronic edition can never be complete. There are many incomplete works, because the titles are names of large collections. Many parts of a collection can still be complete. Non-texts Directory fornsvenska contains Swedish medieval texts from Sprakdata at Gothenburg University. See file fornsvenska/README. Directory ordlistor contains not-very-good electronic dictionaries. See file ordlistor/README. For more information on electronic dictionaries, see Gopher menus. Directory "tiff" contains images of scanned texts. These might be available in text as well. The resolution is 400 dots per inch, and CCITT fax group 4 encoding is used. There is one file per page. Directory "images" contains picture files: For a presentation of Krouthen's paintings, see our World Wide Web service, "http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/runeberg/krouthen/Main.html". Pixels Color Bytes File name, description --------+----+-------+-------------------------------------------- 860x776 grey 312200 images/runeberg.gif Face of Johan Ludvig Runeberg 256 images/krouthen/*.gif Some paintings by Johan Krouthen --------+----+-------+--------------------------------------------