[B-Greek] Is there a downloadable file of all B-Greek emails, etc?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 27 08:52:18 EDT 2004
At 8:30 AM -0400 4/27/04, Oun Kwon wrote:
>Thanks for info.
>
>What format is this downloadable file? HTML?
>How I can read it once downloaded? Through a web browser?
No, it is not HTML; it is a text file compressed--GZipped; when
uncompressed it contains all the messages (with headers) of an entire month
or the current month-to-date. I use Eudora as my mail program and have
found it a snap to convert the expanded text file into a Eudora mailbox
allowing me to see dates, senders, sizes, subject-headers of all the
individual messages of the archive file.
Perhaps it may be useful to know that the archives of B-Greek are
maintained as ASCII-text files, not HTML; even if you send a message to the
list in HTML, as many mail programs do, it is converted by our
list-software into ASCII plain-text, which is why attempts to paste Greek
fonts into messages sent to the list regularly fail and result in
gobbledygook and why we urge people (a) not to paste Greek text from a
Bible program into messages but rather to use our conventional
transliteration scheme, and (b) not to paste text from a word-processor
into messages--because diacritical marks and punctuation marks generally
come out garbled in the resultant text of messages distributed to
list-members.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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