3. Hungary: Interactive Services
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This article is from the Hungarian FAQ, by Zoli Fekete fekete@bc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
3. Hungary: Interactive Services
If you are using Hungarian interactive services from abroad (or vice
versa): please note that interactive Internet connections like WWW
may be very slow, even timing out during peak hours - try times of
lower network load when the response time is usually reasonable.
3.1 What's available on the World Wide Web
See the separate document "Hungarian WWW information FAQ",
available at <http://www.hix.com/hungarian-faq/web> as well
as in the Usenet archives.
3.2 Gopher and other interactive services
HIX has a server in the USA: <gopher://www.hix.com>. Its services
form just a subset of what it offers as a WWW site. RaDir is sometimes
useful for finding email-addresses, old or new friends on the Net. See
also Section 4.4.
HIX has a gopher in Hungary as well:
<gopher://hix.elte.hu/11/HIX/HIX>, and another mirror at
<gopher://gopher.bke.hu:71/11/hix> (notice that this latter uses a
non-standard Gopher port number). Check also <gopher://gopher.elte.hu>
and <gopher://gopher.sztaki.hu>. Note that gopher is essentially
text-based (thus less satisfying than the Web) but often faster
(therefore less frustrating).
CET's gopher is called <gopher://gopher.eunet.cz>.
HIX documents from the archives of www.hix.com are available via the
(Unix) 'finger' protocol. Try 'finger info@www.hix.com' to see how it
works. This may be the easiest and fastest access from some sites.
There is an electronic library at
<gopher://gopher.bke.hu:71/11/elibhu/> (notice the non-standard port)
that has much Hungarian text material, including some classical
poetry.
3.3 ARENA
An interactive chat service of HIX, run by the Hungary.Network.
Similar to IRC, but it does NOT require any client software. Simply
<telnet:hix.hungary.com> and you are there.
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