A Room for Linguistic Geography A site for announcements and downloading the SEAL System Last updated on May 12, 2002 What is SEAL? The SEAL system (System of Exhibition and Analysis of Linguistic Data), developed and published by Chitsuko and Yusuke Fukushima first in 1983, works on a personal computer and can be used to process and analyze geolinguistic data and produce linguistic maps. Here you can get information on the SEAL system, get the SEAL Manual in a PDF file, and download the system. NEW INFO May 13, 2002 Seal 6.1E published: New SEAL installing file now available! The new installing file made it possible to install the SEAL system and data files only with one action. See below. May 5, 2002 "A Room for Linguistic Geography" now open! History of SEAL Revision The system has been revised as follows: 1983 The SEAL system programmed in BASIC was developed for NEC PC-8801 and the users' manual was published. Chitsuko Fukushima reported on the usefulness of a personal computer as a tool to analyze geolinguistic data. 1991 The SEAL system was revised so as to work on a new series of computers, NEC PC-9801. The users' manual version 2 was published. April 1991-March 1995 The SEAL system was converted to the BASIC compiler version and published as version 4.3.; thus, the system worked on a MS-DOS computer and using text file data was made possible. The users' manual version 3 was published. April 1995-March 1998 The SEAL system was reprogrammed in Visual BASIC as the system which worked on Windows 95 and published as version 5.0. The users' manual version 4 was published. The web page "A Room for Linguistic Geography" was opened as a site for announcements and downloading (http://www.nicol.ac.jp/~fukusima/). April 1998-March 2001 In the web page cited above, SEAL version 5.0 for Windows 95 was published for downloading. The system was revised several times later, and every version was announced and prepared for downloading: version 5.1, version 5.5, and version 6.0. The latest version SEAL also had an English version that works on English version Windows. SEAL Available for Academic Usage The SEAL system is open to the public for academic use through our Web page (http://www.nicol.ac.jp/~fukusima/english/). You can download SEAL from this site. The system includes the sample map and data files. The SEAL system works on the DOS/V personal computer with the OS of Windows 95/98/Me/2000/Xp. For English version Windows, only SEAL version 6.1E works. We have developed the SEAL system for academic purposes. We will not be responsible for any damage installing SEAL might cause. In case you cannot properly install SEAL, please refer to SEAL trouble shooting or contact us. We will try to respond to your questions and/or request promptly as long as the language is English or Japanese. The system may have bugs. When you find any bugs, please inform us. You are free to publish the maps produced by SEAL. However, please state clearly in your publication that you used the SEAL system developed by Chitsuko and Yusuke Fukushima. We would appreciate it if you would send us your publication. Downloading and Installing SEAL You can download the system and data files of the SEAL 6.1E system here. You can use Internet Explorer or Nescape to download. If you cannot use the Internet, it is possible to send the the installing file on CD-R by postal mail. Refer to the end of this research report for contact information. There are two steps in the SEAL installation process. 1. Download the installing file from this site. 2. Melt the installing file and copy the SEAL system and data files on the hard disk. Please read and follow the instructions below to download and install the SEAL system to the hard disk on your computer. You can also download the "readme.doc" file or the "readme.txt" file in which important sections in this web page are copied: Downloading and Installing SEAL, Starting SEAL, Trouble Shooting etc. Click here and save the file in your hard disk: readme.doc Right-click here and save the file in your hard disk: readme.txt A. Download the installing file from this site. Download the file to any folder on your hard disk. The size of this file is 3312KB. You cannot download it on floppy disks. Click here and download the installing file: Seal61ESetup.exe B. Melt the installing file and copy the SEAL system and data files on the hard disk. (1) Locate the downloaded Seal61ESetup.exe on your hard disk and double click it. A window will appear. Only the English can be selected here. Click [Next]. Next, a welcome message wil appear. If you are running any other Windows applications, click [Cancel] and cancel installation and close the programs as instructed. Otherwise, click [Next] to continue. Next, a new windows displays the folder where the SEAL system will be installed. The default is "c:\Seal61E\Seal\". Click [Next] to continue. The folder will be created and the files will be installed there. The next windows shows the name of SEAL program folder to be registered. The default is "SEAL 6.1 E". Click [Next] to continue. All information necessary to install the program is listed. Click [Next] to continue. If you want to correct the information, click [Back] to reinput the information. Then the installation will start. The files will be copied to the hard disk. When the windows displays "Setup Complete", click [Finish]. Finally, the ad message on the installer software used to make this installing file will be displayed. Click [OK]. The SEAL setup is now complete. The data files have also been installed. You can start the SEAL program now. The SEAL folder structure is shown below. c:\Seal61E\ has the Seal\ folder, which has three folders and one file. In the Pro\ folder, many system files including Seal.exe and other DLL files are stored. The SealData\ folder and SealSymbol\ folder are the data folders. c:\Seal61E\ - Seal\ - SealData\ - SealSymbol\ - Pro\ - Setup.log Starting SEAL (1) To start the SEAL 6.1E, drag the [Start] button, the [Programs (P)] button, the [Seal 6.1 E] group, and finally click the [Seal 6.1 E] icon. You can also start the SEAL system by double clicking the "Seal.EXE" file using Explorer. Or make the short cut of Seal.exe on your desk top to start. (2) When you start the SEAL system for the first time, you have to input some information follwing the instructions below. You don't need to repeat this after the first run of the program usually. First, the following message will be displayed. Input the folder name in which the "Seal" folder is located: \Seal is in the c:\Seal61E\ folder, so input "c:\Seal61E\". This "\" must be entered to avoid an error message. Then click the [OK] button. Next, the following message will be displayed. Enter either "sample" or "sample60" as a map name, in which the data for demonstration are stored, and click the [OK] button. Next, you have to set the font information. Click [Yes(Y)] to continue. On your display only English message will be displayed unlike the figure below. Then, specify the font data, i.e., "Font", "Font style" and "Size". The choices for the font style are "Regular(Standard)", "Italic", "Bold", and "Bold Italic". Thus, click and select "Arial", "Regular", and "10", for example. Then click the [OK] button. On your display only English message will be displayed unlike the figure below. Finally, you have to input the vertical position of special fonts. Enter "0.0" or "0" and click the [OK] button. In the SEAL system, we can use a special set of fonts. However, these fonts sometimes may not be plotted in the same vertical position. Therefore, we adjust the position using the value of "Vertical Position of Special Fonts". We can use a decimal number as the value of vertical position. As explained before, the procedure described above is necessary when the SEAL system is started for the first time. The information entered is stored in the "SealDrive Name.map". If you think it necessary to change the information or fail to enter the proper information, the "SealDriveName.map" file must be deleted and you have to enter the new information. (3) After the data input above, the SEAL Main form will appear. In this form, you can jump to other forms where you can input the data, analyse the data, specify the symbols to the forms, draw linguistic maps, and synthesize the data of different maps. You can also end the SEAL system in this form. You should download the PDF Users' Manual in the next section in order to consult how to use the SEAL system. (4) Once the data is entered, it is not necessary to repeat it usually. From the second starting, SEAL will return the following message and ask if we want to confirm the data or not. Drive Name, Map Name, Font Drive Name c:\Seal60E\ Map Name sample Font Arial Font Style 'Standard' Size of Fonts 10 OK? Yes No Here the font style "Regular" is printed as "Standard" on the screen. If you want to keep the data, click the [Yes] button. If you want to change it, click the [No] button. In this way, you can change the font data or even the kind of map data at each run of the SEAL system. The sets of special fonts, which include either phonetic alphabet or Spanish alphabet, are stored in the following folders: \SealSymbol\Standard16 \SealSymbol\Bold16 \SealSymbol\Standard18 \SealSymbol\Bold18 Fonts have two styles; one is "Regular" (printed as "Standard" in the system) and another is "Bold". The font sizes are 16 dots and 18 dots. A list of these special fonts is shown when you choose one of the menus, [Phonetic Alphabet (P)], in the 'Draw Maps' form. Trouble Shooting (1) Deletion of "SealDriveName.map" When you have any trouble in starting the system, you should locate and delete the "SealDriveName.map" file. In the original installation, the file will be found in the c:\Seal60E\ folder. Using Explorer, search the "SealDriveName.map" file and delete all of them found in "My Computer". (2) Location of SEAL Data Folders The data folders, the SealData\ folder and the SealSymbol\ folder, must be put in the Seal\ folder, but this Seal\folder can be located anywhere, for example, at the root of the C Drive: c:\seal\. If you move the data folder or make the new folder, check if the data folders are properly set. (3) Uninstall the SEAL system There uninstallation processs differs depending on the version of the SEAL. If you are using SEAL 6.1E, just delete the c:\Seal61E\ folder. That is all you have to do. If you are using the SEAL 6.0E, which was available only for a short time, never delete the Seal60E\ folder using Explorer. You are advised to use the Add/Remove Programs in the [Control Panel]. Drag the [start] button, [Setting], [Control Panel], and [Add/Remove Programs]. Then, you should execute the "Uninstall.exe" file in the Seal\ folder to remove all the files involved. Using SEAL: Get the PDF Users' Manual here You can download the users' manual of SEAL 6.0E system (English version, Adobe PDF file, 557KB) here. You can refer to this manual even when you are using the SEAL 6.1E system. You need Acrobat Reader to read and print the file. You can download the Acrobat Reader for free from its corporate Web site. If you have installed ADOBE Acrobat Reader, left-click here and read/print the file. You can download the users' manual even if you haven't installed Acrobat Reader: EManualPDFGIF.pdf Please note that the installation process described in the Users' manual is different from that descrived on this Web page. Please read and follow the instructions on this page. Or download and print out the readme.txt file in the Downloading and Installing SEAL. SEAL Bibliography *Here only the publications written in English are listed. SEAL User's Manual Chitsuko & Yusuke Fukushima,SEAL Users' Manual, Sixth Edition (English Version): SEAL Version 6.0E for English Version Windows 98/Me/2000 Research Report for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)(2) 2001-2003 2002/March (The copy can be downloaded here as a PDF file.) SEAL Academic Papers Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Standardization in England Based on the Morphological Data of CLAE.' The Computer Developed Linguistic Atlas of England 2. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen. pp.51-56. 1997/ Aug. Inoue, Fumio and Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'A Quantitative Approach to English Dialect Distribution: Analyses of CLAE Morphological Data.' The Computer Developed Linguistic Atlas of England 2. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen. pp. 57-65. 1997/ Aug. Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Calculating and mapping regional speech variation in Tokunoshima' The Bulletin of Niigata Womenfs College 37 pp.79-87 2000/March Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Using a personal computer to grasp dialectal variation' Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 8 pp.37-52. 2000/Aug. Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Linguistic innovation born in the paradigm: Interpretation of linguistic maps.' In the Proceedings of 3rd International Congress of Dialectologists and Geolinguists, Lublin, Poland. Forthcoming. SEAL Academic Presentations Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Using a personal computer to grasp dialectal variation.' A paper presented at 2nd International Congress of Dialectologists and Geolinguists in Amsterdam, July 29, 1997. Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Calculating and mapping regional variation on an island.' A paper presented at Tenth International Congress on Methods in Dialectology (Methods X), St. John's, NF, Canada. August 2,1999. Fukushima, Chitsuko, 'Linguistic Innovation born in the paradigm: Interpretation of linguistic maps.' A paper presented at 3?'?" International Congress of Dialectologists and Geolinguists, Lublin, Poland. July 25, 2000. Please request copies of papers if you are interested in the publication listed above. Contact Chitsuko Fukushima, Professor Department of English Niigata Women's College 471 Ebigase, Niigata City 950-8680 JAPAN TEL: 81-(0)25-270-7160 FAX: 81-(0)25-270-5173 [College Office] E-mail: fukusima@elle.nicol.ac.jp Copyrights c 2002 Chitsuko and Yusuke Fukushima, All Rights Reserved.