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From: jjake@reed.UUCP (Jacob Sisk)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Are there Machine Readable Texts out there?
Message-ID: <12690@reed.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 89 23:56:45 GMT
Reply-To: jjake@reed.UUCP (Jacob Sisk)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Hello,

	I am not entirely sure that this posting should live in 
comp.text, but it certainly does have everything to do with both comp
and text. I apologize if it is in the wrong place. 

	I am wondering if any body out there knows where to get a
directory of machine readable texts. I am mainly interested in Classical
texts, but all literature is potentially useful. I have a few texts from
the American Philological Association, division of machine readable texts, but
I don't know how to get in touch with them, and I am told that their texts
are not very good. I am also interested in various text browsers and context
searchers, but those are peripheral until I get a good sense of what there is
out there to search. 

	(A friend of mine has put out a plea for    
the Poetic Edda, a northen European epic, I think. Also Joyce and Euripides
would be *very* useful :-) .)

	If any one else is interested in this, I can mail the responses I get
to you, or post them up again in one posting.

	Thank you in advance,

Jacob Sisk			jjake@reed.BITNET


Box 798
Reed College,
Portland OR 97202