INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE REQUEST "send papers": >> how to get papers from mp_arc by e-mail Papers can only be specified by their numbers (see the index). Example 1: REQUEST: send papers NUMBER: 91-12 Example 2: REQUEST: send papers NUMBER: 91-2, 91-10, 91-12 Notes: 1) If you have difficulties converting a paper file into a readable paper, please notify the author by E-mail and notify us of the problem and cure (through the "read comment" request of the system) so we can alert other people. 2) The "papers" with numbers 90-1, 90-2, ... , are utilities (programs, TeX macros, etc.) that we have found useful in fixing incompatibility problems. Eventually, these utilities will be kept in a separate database, and there will be requests like "list utilities" and "send utilities" ... 3) If longer than MAXLENGTH lines, outgoing messages are split and sent in pieces of no more than MAXLENGTH lines (MAXLENGTH*72 characters). The current default of MAXLENGTH is 58254. To change it e.g. to 1000 (for example if your local mail system cannot handle messages longer than 100K), add the following line to the request "send papers" MAXLENGTH: 1000 4) It is also possible to download a paper in compressed form by adding ONE of the two following lines to the request "send papers". FILTER: compress FILTER: zip FILTER: gzip These compression filters can dramatically reduce the size of a text file (typically by a factor of 1/3), and we recommend that you use one of these options when downloading long papers, in order to reduce mail traffic. The compressed files are sent out in uuencoded form. Thus, it is necessary to uudecode them first before they can be decompressed. The corresponding programs "uudecode", "uncompress", and "unzip", are available for almost any type of computer.