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Date:         Fri, 20 Mar 1992 10:21:32 -0500
Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!ctr.columbia.edu!shoulson>
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From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!ctr.columbia.edu!shoulson>
Subject:      What is Shoebox?
To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To:  dmb%BIGD.CRAY.COM@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Fri,
              20 Mar 1992 08:12:20 -0600
Status: RO

Dave Bowen asks about Shoebox.  I know you said private email would be
okay, but I think everyone else is also in the dark; it came up in private
email.

Shoebox is a simple, public-domain database program designed for
linguistics.  It has neat ways of storing lexicons and corpuses (corpi?),
and a slick interlinear-translation generator.  I have been playing with it
off and on, seeing what its abilities are.  It's a fun toy, and may turn
out to be very useful for Lojban.  You can get it via anonymous ftp from
various places, including the venerable simtel20.army.mil or its more
easily-accessible mirror, wuarchive.wustl.edu.  I got it off the latter, I
believe it was in directory /mirrors/msdos/linguistics, filename sh12a.zip
or something.  simtel is probably the same, though likely lacking the
"mirrors" bit.  Pull it down, have fun.

~mark