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The web pages on this site are served by the Apache Web Server. The web pages were composed by using emacs, which was written by Richard M. Stallman, with the html-helper-mode.el macros written by Nelson Minar. The web pages were validated for HTML syntax compliance using Niel Bowers'weblint program. The links were verified using Rick Jansen's webxref program. SGML ISO8879/HTML 4.0 compliance was verified using the World Wide Web Consortium's on line validation service, and Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY as a verification tool. The site is remotely administered with rsync incremental file transfer over the ssh secure shell. The site pages are maintained with RCS, the Revision Control System available from GNU. All software is freely available and distributed as source code, at no charge. The site is hosted by Rahul.net, and runs on Red Hat Linux.

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The manuscript was composed using TeX, with the LaTeX definitions, and set in the Computer Modern and Postscript fonts. For technical information on LaTeX, see LaTeX User's Guide & Reference Manual, by Leslie Lamport, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1986. For technical information on TeX, see The TeX book, by Donald Knuth, Addison-Wesley, Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1984. TeX is a trademark of The American Mathematical Society. The sources to TeX and LaTeX are freely available from the TeX Users Group site.

The editor used in the composition of the manuscript was Emacs, with the AucTex definitions. The sources to Emacs are freely available from the GNU Emacs site. The sources to AucTex are freely available from the AucTex site.

The bibliographic database for the manuscript was maintained by BibTeX. The sources to BibTeX are freely available from the BibTex site.

The citations and references were inserted in the manuscript using the RefTex definitions. The RefTex definitions are freely available from the RefTex site.

The page header and footers for the manuscript were defined using the fancyheadings definitions in LaTeX. The sources to fancyheadings are freely available from the fancyheadings page on the CTAN site.

The manuscript's index was made by the program gnuindex. The sources to gnuindex are freely available from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ in the texinfo distribution.

The spelling in the manuscript was verified using ispell with GNU Emacs. The sources to ispell are freely available from the Ispell site.

The graphs in the manuscript were made using the program gnuplot. The sources to gnuplot are freely available from the gnuplot site. The graphs were converted to Encapsulated Postscript and imported directly into LaTeX using the epsf definitions. The sources to epsf are freely available from the epsf page on the CTAN site.

The schematic pictographs in the manuscript were made using the program xfig. The sources to xfig are freely available from the XFig site. The Encapsulated Postscript export was done at 25% size, in portrait mode. Many of the pictographs were translated from the xfig file format to Encapsulated Postscript using the fig2dev program that is distributed with the xfig sources.

In addition, the document and revision control functionality was provided by the program rcs. The sources to rcs are freely available from the RCS page.