BOSTON UNIVERSITY
                      Computer Science Department
                           Technical Reports
                                   
                                   
                     This document is stored under
                 /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/INSTRUCTIONS
                                   



Guidelines for searching:
------------------------

1. The  department's technical reports are  maintained  on-line  in the
   anonymous FTP directory, which  is mounted on  the cs  cluster under
   /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/

2. Technical reports are stored in  a compressed PostScript format in a
   path/file named: ~ftp/techreports/<TR-NUMBER>-<TR-NAME>.ps.Z,  where
   <TR-NUMBER> is   the  technical report number  and   <TR-NAME> is an
   abbreviated name for the technical report. 

3. For  a  list of all the  on-line  technical  reports  and abstracts,
   refer to: /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/ABSTRACTS

4. For individual abstracts of all the on-line technical reports, refer
   to: /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/abstracts/* 

5. The CS Dept Technical Reports of Boston University are available for
   searching and browsing wordwide through  NCSTRL:  Networked Computer 
   Science Technical Reports Library  and  through the Unified Computer 
   Science TR Index, and soon through other similar servers on the Web. 
   The Home Page  for the  department's technical reports is  available 
   at URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreports/Home.html


Guidelines for authors:
----------------------

1. A faculty member who  wants to issue a  technical report should send
   to the technical reports maintainer an e-mail message containing the
   following information: 

      +----------------------------------------------------------+
      | Title: <Title of the technical report>                   |
      | Author: <Author name(s) and affiliation(s)>              |
      | Date: <Date>                                             |
      |                                                          |
      | Abstract:                                                |
      |                                                          |
      |   <Abstract of the technical report in plain ASCII text> |
      |                                                          |
      +----------------------------------------------------------+

2. Upon receipt of the above request,  the technical reports maintainer
   will issue   a Technical Report number  <TR-NUMBER>, will update the
   list  of  Abstracts in the anonymous  FTP  area, and will modify the
   TR  database  to  reflect  the  availability  of  the  newly  issued 
   technical report.  

3. It  is  the responsibility of  the   faculty member who   issues the
   technical  report to deposit in  the anonymous FTP area a compressed
   PostScript  version   of  the technical  report,    stored under the
   path/filename below: 
 
      /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/<TR-NUMBER>-<TR-name>.ps.Z    
 
   where <TR-NAME> is an  abbreviated  name derived from  the technical
   report's Title. When you deposit this file, please make sure that it
   is publicly readable by using the "chmod og+r <filename>" command.

4. At any time thereafter, if there is a need to modify the TR abstract
   or document, then the following two files should be updated. 

      /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/abstracts/<TR-NUMBER>        (Abstract file)
      /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/<TR-NUMBER>-<TR-name>.ps.Z (PostScript file)

5. If you  need  to distribute  any  documents that  are not  technical
   reports,   you may  do  so by   depositing   these documents in  the
   directory:  

      /sw/pub/ftp/techreports/misc/


Current Technical Reports Maintainer:
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Azer Bestavros <best@cs.bu.edu>
  Computer Science Department   
  Boston University, CLA
  111 Cummington street (MCS-276)
  Boston, Massachusetts 02215 

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Created:  May 1993 (by Azer Bestavros)
Upfated: July 1996 (by Azer Bestavros)