Re: Please Help Me Get Shoebox!

Evan L. Antworth (Evan.Antworth@SIL.ORG)
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:25:29 -0600

At 9:49 AM -0600 12/20/96, Ari Solovyova wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>If anyone could help me obtain Shoebox for Windows, I'd be extremely
>grateful. I ordered it from SIL for my Russian friends a month ago, and
>it got lost in the mail. I'm leaving for Russia next Wednesday, and it
>will be really sad if I don't bring it to my friends after all.
>
>Please help!
>
>Thank you!
>Ari Solovyova
>asolovyo@indiana.edu

1) You can download Shoebox (Windows or Macintosh) from this Web page:

http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox.html

2) To obtain Shoebox using a command-line FTP client:

FTP to ftp.sil.org and log in as anonymous.

To retrieve the Windows version, do these commands:

cd [.software.dos]
binary
get sh30.zip

To retrieve the Macintosh version, do these commands:

cd [.software.mac]
get shoebox30_sea.hqx

(3) To obtain Shoebox by e-mail, send a message to mailserv@sil.org
containing these
commands:

To retrieve the Windows version, include this command:

send/mode=block/encoding=uuencode [ftp.software.dos]sh30.zip

To retrieve the Macintosh version, include this command:

send [ftp.software.mac]shoebox30_sea.hqx

(4) Shoebox disks and printed (and bound) documentation can be obtained for
less than $20
from

JAARS
ICTS
Box 248
Waxhaw, NC 28173
USA
FAX: (704) 843-6500
E-mail: computer_sales_jaars@sil.org
Product support e-mail: shoebox_support@sil.org

--Evan

Evan Antworth | e-mail: evan.antworth@sil.org
Academic Computing Department | phone: 972-708-7346
Summer Institute of LInguistics | fax: 972-708-7363
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
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