Russian Treasures from Waseda

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Seelangers:

Thanks to Dr. Yoshimasa Tsuji, I've been privileged to discover a HUGE
collection of Russian texts, books, novels, novellas, poetry collections,
etc. of every sort, ready for DOWNLOAD at Waseda University in Japan. I am
talking about hundreds of masterpieces of every sort from Aksyonov to
Brodsky to Turgenev to you name it, they got it. You won't regret it, I
assure you. The address is:

 ftp://ftp.yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp

The address is an FTP address and must be typed in or accessed exactly as
you see above (with the double "ftp", one before the colon cum slashes,
another right after it.

Don't be deceived by the very modest ftp "home page". Just open up the
"PUB" and "MSG" directories (yellow folders) and be sure to check every
SUBDIRECTORY. The treasures are everywhere but you must hunt them down.
Before you start you could open up the Contents file in white. The Contents
file can be seen on the screen or, I believe, downloaded. It lists
everything on the site but in a rather strange order that is most
definitely NOT user-friendly, unfortunately in UNIX format: all entries
that begin with a "d" such as "d-r-xxx" are directories, those that begin
WITHOUT the "d" such as "r-xxx" are real files.

We owe Dr. Tsuji and Waseda University a huge thanks. Why not drop him a
line and thank him personally at:

Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji <yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp>

Yours,

Benjamin Sher
sher07 at bellsouth.net