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This is Edition 0.1 of The Guide,
last updated 7 September 1993 .
Printed 2 September 1994.

Published by Portland State University
P.O. Box 751, CMPS
Portland, OR 97207

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Preface

This document was adapted from File 901, version 2.0, from the Computer Science Department at OSU. It was originally written by Jon Krueger (University of Rochester) and John Sechrest (OSU).

Contributors to version 1 at OSU were: Joel Corcoran, Edward A. Dains, Chris Hansen, Bryce Jasmer, Cory Jones, Marilyn Jordan, Lothar Kaul, Saeed Sedatian, Dex Smith, Scott Starr, Doug Strauss, Terralyn Udell and Don Willits.

Contributors to version 2 at OSU were: Marcos Barajas, Dan Nixon, Anthony Coughran, Steve Fulling, Dana Jacobsen, Cory Jones, Shahid Khan, Rajeev Pandey, Sheryl Parker, Erik Peteresen, Jason Robbins, Rebecca Ryden, AJ Schricker, John Sechrest, Satish Srinivas and Ricardo Uribe.

With John Sechrest's kind permission, The Portland State University Computer Science Systems Group (Sysgroup) began work on their own version. Initially this was done by converting the document to Texinfo and then omitting or altering local (OSU-specific) information.

The primary work at PSU was done by Lynnette Ahmed, Mihail Blaj, George A. Christian, Roger Conley, Anthony Fiarito, Trent A. Fisher, John Jendro, Laurentiu Popescu and Darrell K. Root.

Some sections are edited versions of documents available on the Internet. They are section News Etiquette, which is adapted from A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community, by Chuq Von Rospach; and section nn, which is adapted from an article by Rohit Gupta (rohit@uiuc.edu), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computing Services Office.

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