3.689 Summer Institute of Linguistics; InfoWorld rev (73)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 2 Nov 89 22:25:17 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 689. Thursday, 2 Nov 1989.


(1) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 09:09:21 GMT (34 lines)
From: fred.eade@UTS.AM.CC.READING.AC.UK
Subject: summer institute of linguistics

(2) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 89 10:45:56 -0800 (19 lines)
From: Malcolm Brown <mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: InfoWorld's evalutation of DOS text retrieval software

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 09:09:21 GMT
From: fred.eade@UTS.AM.CC.READING.AC.UK
Subject: summer institute of linguistics

Have many other humanists discovered the veritable goldmine of
'humanistic' computing, sales and help in the Summer Institute of
Linguistics? they are based in Texas and their address is:

s.i.l. inc.
7500 west camp wisdom road
dallas 75236
texas

they also have a sales/software library in northern carolina:

international computer services
box 248
waxhaw
nc 28173

The expertise that sil have built up over several years of linguistic
computing is, i think, quite unique.

Their main area of concern is in minority language groups, and to serve
that purpose they have written a whole 'suite' of software (admittedly
not quite as user friendly as a mac!) known as dts (direct translation
support). this is available - including documentation - for around $30
from the waxhaw address. a journal is published eight times a year
called notes on computing and costs $12 + postage. this journal deals
with anything from unix problems to fungus growing on discs (a lot of
sil staff work in 'computer hostile environments, as you may imagine'. i
have found sil, and their sister organisation wycliffe bible translators
very helpful, but then i would as my main research interests lie in
burkina faso.
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 89 10:45:56 -0800
From: Malcolm Brown <mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: InfoWorld's evalutation of DOS text retrieval software


This week's "InfoWorld" has review of the major textbase
programs that run under DOS. The programs reviewed
include AskSam, FolioViews, Ize, WordCruncher, Magellan
and ZyIndex.

I'd be most interested if those using Magellan and FolioViews
could comment on the InfoWorld evaluation. Do you agree?
Do the InfoWorld reports accurately evaluate the programs?

(I'm baised, you see: I've not had a chance to work with
Magellan or FolioViews yet).

Malcolm Brown
Stanford