--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous FTP server: cher.media.mit.edu (18.85.0.47) This file: ~ftp/pub/el-memos/README Last updated: Fri May 8 00:37:56 EDT 1992 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epistemology and Learning Ph.D. dissertations (part of the "The E&L Memo Series"). The files in this directory are publications of the Epistemology and Learning Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. Files are gradually being installed here as time permits. For a full list of our publications, please write to us at the following address: 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 the Epistemology and Learning dissertations, type the following command: cd pub/el-memos/Theses This directory includes PostScript-ready versions of the dissertations, in subdirectories for each author. The papers must be printed on a PostScript printer that supports the font used. 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 filename.ps.Z | lpr -P (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 filename.ps.Z' 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. This directory is maintained and supported by Fred Martin (fredm@media.mit.edu). Questions, problems, suggestions, encouragement should be directed to him. ----------------------------------------------------------------------