papers on \Tex, splinebib, file-mailing ... at ftp.cs.wisc.edu/Approx

These files can be obtained by anonymous from ftp.cs.wisc.edu/Approx. The files are postscript, and are also available as compress(ed) files, as indicated by the subscript .Z, to be uncompress(ed) before using, as well as as (shorter) gzip(ed) files, as indicated by the subscript .gz, to be extracted by gzip -d .
The files are now also available in pdf. For those from before '98, these pdf files might not look very good in an acrobat reader, but will print just fine.
If you have trouble because of file contamination, specify binary as your first command in ftp.
The files are in order of increasing age.

message.mp5
A selfunwrapping wrapper containing MATLAB 5 programs for the construction and evaluation of the least interpolant to data in any number of dimensions
Carl de Boor
as of February 1999

viva_vi: ps ps.Z ps.gz pdf
Viva vi!, (a brief introduction to vi)
Carl de Boor
1987
version: 03aug03

intro: ps ps.Z ps.gz pdf
TeXnicalities (an informal introduction to TeX use) (the odd pages)
Carl de Boor
1987
version: 06feb99

ttintro: ps ps.Z ps.gz pdf
TeXnicalities (an informal introduction to TeX use) (the even pages)
Carl de Boor
1987
version: 06feb99

format.tex
A file of plain TeX macros useful for writing papers and books in plain TeX (including automatic sequencing of formal items and items in the bibliography, and the exact placement of items).
Carl de Boor
1983
version: 31may04

verbatim.tex
A file of plain TeX macros useful for handling the typesetting of programs and program-related material in plain TeX.
Carl de Boor
1991
version: 25feb98

index.tex
A file of plain TeX macros useful for generating (the draft of) an index.
Carl de Boor
1993
version: 27jun98

journal.tex
TeX macros of use with the spline bibliography.
Carl de Boor
1990
version: 05jun04

proceed.tex
TeX macros of use with the spline bibliography.
Carl de Boor
1990
version: 02may04

refmac.tex
TeX macros of use with the spline bibliography.
Carl de Boor
1990
version: 27may04

message.mm
a self-unwrapping wrapper containing files for simplifying the safe mailing of files via email.
Carl de Boor
1989
version: mar 96