As of today, 1 February 1993, there is a new NativeNet LISTSERV-based mailing
list in operation via the TAMVM1 host at Texas A & M University. This list,
called "NAT-LANG," is for the purpose of exchanging information and having
discussions on the subject of the many languages developed and used by the
First Peoples of various parts of the world. The list takes over the function
of the Native languages list, which I have operated by means of my own system
for the past two years. Having a LISTSERV-based list will permit more effic-
ient operation, and the easy maintanance of an archive of articles, as now
exists for the NATIVE-L, NAT-1492, and NAT-EDU lists (NAT-EDU is based at
INDYCMS rather than at TAMVM1).
Everyone who was formerly subscribed to the Native languages list should have
received a message from the TAMVM1 LISTSERV this morning informing him or her
that s/he is now subscribed to NAT-LANG. If you are not on the NAT-LANG list
and would like to subscribe, simply send a message to the LISTSERV address at
TAMVM1 ("listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu" for Internet users) saying:
subscribe nat-lang Your Name
where "Your Name" is replaced with your own given name (*NOT* your electronic
mail address, which is automatically picked up from the header of the message
you send). You should receive verification of your subscription within a day
of sending your subscription request.
(Bitnet users can send "tell listserv at tamvm1 subscribe nat-lang Your Name")
In order to access articles from the on-line NAT-LANG archive maintained at
TAMVM1, which now contains most of the articles exchanged on the Native lang-
uage list during the past two years, you can send a set of IBMish "JCL" ("Job
Control Language") statements of the form:
// job echo=no
database search dd=rules
//rules dd *
select * in nat-lang
index
/*
in order to obtain a full list of the contents of the archive. You can do the
same for the NATIVE-L, NAT-1492, and NAT-EDU lists as well (but be sure to send
requests for the NAT-EDU archive to "listserv@indycms.iupui.edu" instead). In
order to limit the amount of output you will receive (which may exceed the
default limit of 2000 lines of text), you can modify the "select" line to read
something like:
select * in nat-lang since january
or
select * in nat-lang since november 1992
(Complete instructions on the database facility are available by sending a
message containing "info database" to any LISTSERV. NativeNet-specific
instructions can be obtained by sending "get nn-intro archives" to the
TAMVM1 LISTSERV address. These documents explain how to obtain articles
based on full-text keyword searches.)
To increase the default limit of 2000 lines, you can add "outlim=" to the
"search" statement:
database search dd=rules outlim=4000
To retrieve individual articles, you can replace the "index" line in the
JCL shown above with one reading "print" followed by a comma-separated
list of article numbers. For example:
print 1,2,23,10,44
(It is not necessary to first obtain a list of articles and then use the
article numbers to actually retrieve articles. The documents cited above
explain a more direct approach.)
Following is the result of sending the "index" request within the job
shown above. The "Item #" column indicates the numbers you can use in a
"print" statement, as shown (directly) above. If you have any questions
about the use of this facility, please direct them to me.
Gary
[ N.B. Please note particularly the last item in the list below, which
arrived today. It announces a conference on the subject of
Athapaskan language which will take place on 3-4 June in Santa
Fe New Mexico. ]
Item # Date Time Recs Subject
------ ---- ---- ---- -------
000001 90/12/11 12:01 23 The Purpose of this Conference
000002 90/10/31 21:06 121 Alaska Native Language Center
000003 90/10/30 09:09 100 list of native language resources
000004 90/12/31 21:02 58 Woodlands/Ojibwa info request
000005 91/02/15 17:11 121 Information of a Nameserver for Linguists
000006 90/10/31 09:07 265 Conference on American Indian Languages
000007 91/02/22 23:54 118 Statistics on Use of Native American Languages
000008 91/02/19 00:50 33 Muscogee/Creek name for brown thrasher?
000009 91/02/12 15:11 270 Lakhota Instructional Materials
000010 91/03/06 06:51 41 LINGUIST NET
000011 91/03/11 04:48 30 SSILA Description
000012 91/02/18 14:48 45 Native experience in learning English
000013 91/03/15 01:52 92 Aymara coded by mathematician
000014 91/03/25 10:39 40 THE LOST CHILDREN (learning one's native language)
000015 91/04/10 06:11 35 Native American Languages Act is Law
000016 91/04/05 15:52 202 Names for the Dakota
000017 91/06/03 15:16 12 "Dances With Wolves" Query
000018 91/06/08 01:19 152 "Poliespo" - based on Cherokee & Esperanto
000019 91/08/01 08:50 78 NALI '91 conf (late September, B.C.)
000020 91/09/21 19:48 106 Australian Language - NTU rights to teach
000021 91/10/11 15:22 24 Re: Info on Blackfoot-North America
000022 91/10/14 17:10 48 a note on Athapaskan
000023 91/10/17 22:35 56 Anthropological Linguistics
000024 91/12/06 00:27 601 aboriginal languages
000025 91/06/13 14:31 52 Navajo and Choctaw
000026 91/12/16 18:25 236 New World (word) Order
000027 92/11/25 23:13 161 Cherokee syllabary / fonts
000028 92/12/15 00:07 57 Tsalagi language course(s)
000029 93/01/06 15:23 85 Indigenous Language Newsletters
000030 93/01/19 01:26 168 Cree language resources needed
000031 93/01/21 13:01 48 Minority language package: Irish Gaelic version of+
000032 93/01/24 13:14 98 Native Lingo Keyboards
000033 93/01/27 15:48 72 Dakota Ethnography (was "names")
000034 93/01/29 05:05 85 Learning Native Language (Was: Personal Introducti+
000035 93/01/27 14:37 141 screen fonts
000036 93/02/01 01:31 122 Native language LISTSERV!
000037 93/01/30 18:48 25 Re: Apache and Athabaskan
000038 93/01/30 09:26 30 Athapaskan/Apache
000039 93/01/31 13:51 33 Re: Apache and Athabaskan
000040 93/01/31 16:47 22 Southern Paiute word question
000041 93/01/31 23:30 19 Alaska native language help sought
000042 93/01/31 23:35 14 Tlingit language question
000043 93/02/01 10:19 42 Re: Learning Native Language (Was: Personal Introd+
000044 93/02/01 10:34 46 Athapaskan Language Conference
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Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst