--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous FTP server: cher.media.mit.edu (18.85.0.47) This file: pub/el-publications/Memos/README Last updated: Fri Jun 11 13:04:46 1993 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "E&L Memos," "Logo Memos," "E&L Manuals," and "E&L Theses." The files in this directory are publications of the Epistemology and Learning Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. "Constructionism in Practice" (in the CiP directory) is our most recent collection of papers, almost all dated June, 1994. The "E&L Memos" are all since 1986 and most since 1990; the "Logo Memos" are older memos, all before 1986, some of which are also AI Lab Memos; the "E&L Manuals" are software or hardware manuals; and the "E&L Theses" are the dissertations of students graduated from the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab. Files are gradually being installed here as time permits. A bibliography for each type of publication is available within the appropriate directory. For hard copies of these papers, please send a check or money order for the appropriate amount (as shown in the bibliographies) to: Epistemology and Learning Publications The Media Laboratory The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames Street Room E15-309 Cambridge, MA 02139 Copyright notice: All of these papers are copyrighted by MIT and the respective authors. Permission is granted for reproduction for personal and non-commercial educational use only. These papers may *not* be re-distributed (in electronic form or otherwise) without explicit permission from MIT. Please refer parties interested in obtaining their own copies back to this FTP server site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To get access to the following papers, you must use anonymous FTP. To do this, type the command "ftp cher.media.mit.edu" to the command line prompt of your Unix machine. (If this does not work, try "ftp 18.85.0.47".) When asked for username, type the name "anonymous". For password, you can type anything you like. You will now be logged in to our FTP server. To get to the directory with our publications, type the following command: cd pub/el-publications This directory includes the directories: Logo-Memos/ Theses/ EL-Memos/ Manuals/ which contain PostScript-ready versions of the Memo series, as well as the manuals, logo memos, and theses. Many of the papers use the Palatino font and therefore must be printed on a PostScript printer that supports this font. When FTP'ing the files over to your local machine, make sure to use binary mode because they are stored in compressed form using the Unix compress utility. (Go into binary mode by typing the command "binary" to the FTP prompt.) After retrieving the files you are interested in (use the FTP command "get "), you can print them out. If you have a PostScript printer connected directly to your Unix system, you should be able to print out the files using the following command zcat memoNN.PS | lpr -P replacing "memoNN.PS" with the filename of the memo you are printing. (For those of you with MS-DOS PCs, the utility "COMP430D" is a public domain Unix-format compress/uncompress for MS-DOS available from many archive sites.) If you are using a printer hooked up to a Macintosh network, and your Macs are running System 6, you will probably have to reboot the printer and then issue the print command from Unix to get things to work. (This will remove the conflicting LaserPrep dictionary from the printer's memory.) If you can't print directly from Unix, you should first uncompress the PostScript file ('uncompress memoNN.PS' at the Unix prompt) before uploading it to your PC or Mac before printing (unless you want to run uncompression from your desktop machine). You will need a utility such as "SendPS" to send the PostScript files to your printer. Most of the papers were produced in Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh. Versions of these Word files are provided in addition to the PostScript print-outs. These files, with ".hqx" suffix, were converted with BinHex into text-only form for distribution. You will need a copy of BinHex, StuffIt, or a similar utility on the Mac to convert these files back into MS Word file format. A few of the papers were produced using LaTeX. In these cases, the .tex file is provided. Files that include PostScript pictures are provided in tar archive format. In addition, a separate PostScript-ready cover page (file name "memoNNcvr.PS") is provided. This directory is maintained and supported by Fred Martin (fredm@media.mit.edu). Questions, problems, suggestions, encouragement should be directed to him. ----------------------------------------------------------------------