sabhaparvan

[l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no]

>I just downloaded Prof. van Nooten's transcription of the Sabhaaparvan 
>and see 240,000+ bytes of gibberish. If anybody out there who uses a 
>Macintosh has successfully downloaded this into readable text, I would be 
>interested in the rahasya, e.g. what font did he use, what ASCII codes 
>are necessary (though I know next to nothing about ASCII), etc.?
>
>Thanks
>
>Fred Smith
>Univ. of Iowa
> 

Van Nooten uses the CSX format, which means that if you use a PC, you need
the wnrir - files to get an indological transliteration character set.
These files you can get hold of by using ftp. Try these sites:

Indology ftp: Indology FTP : ftp.bcc.ac.uk
Login: anonymous
Directory:  /public/users/ucgadkw/indology

or

blackbox.hacc.washington.edu
(hacc = Humanities and Computing Centre in Washington)


Otherwise, with a bit of patience, you can convert van Nootens
transliteration into any other kind of representation by means of
search-and-replace.

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse


Lars Martin Fosse
Department of East European
and Oriental Studies
P. O. Box 1030, Blindern
N-0315 OSLO Norway

Tel: +47 22 85 68 48
Fax: +47 22 85 41 40

E-mail: l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no