American Mathematical Society                             October 1991

In this directory (/ams) you will find subdirectories for each of the major
subdivisions of the Society's TeX archive.  Specifically, you will find
subdirectories for AMS-TeX 2.1 (/ams/amstex), AMSFonts 2.1 (/ams/amsfonts)
AMS-LaTeX 1.1 (/ams/amslatex), the AMSFonts TFM files (/ams/tfm-files), and
information for AMS authors (/ams/author-info).  The /author-info area contains
two subareas: /guidelines and /sty-files.  The /guidelines area contains the
TeX source files for the AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX ``Guidelines for Preparing
Electronic Manuscripts''.  The /sty-files area contains style files (AMS-TeX
and AMS-LaTeX) for AMS publications.

Additionally, in the /ams area you will also find compressed tar files for each
of these subdirectories of /ams, with the exception of /ams/amsfonts which is
where the AMSFonts 2.1 distribution is located.  The tar files for the
/ams/amsfonts area are broken down into further subdivisions.  Specifically,
you will find a compressed tar file for the AMSFonts 2.1 Metafont sources
(/ams/amsfonts-sources.tar.Z) as well as uncompressed tar files for AMSFonts
2.1 pk files in resolutions of 118, 180, 240, and 300dpi (/ams/amsfonts118.tar,
/ams/amsfonts180.tar, /ams/amsfonts240.tar, and /ams/amsfonts300.tar).  (Please
note that these tar archives are not compressed, since the pk files they
contain are already in a compressed format and the Unix compress utility cannot
compress them any further.)  Because of space requirements as well as their
more limited use, a tar file for 400 dpi fonts was not created.  If your host
machine utilizes the Unix operating system, you can use these tar files for
easy retrieval of an entire TeX product.

For example, if you would like to obtain AMS-LaTeX 1.1, you can just
transfer the file /ams/amslatex.tar.Z to your machine.  You would then
have to decompress and use the tar utility to restore the AMS-LaTeX
files to your local machine.

For Macintosh users who use the Textures program, we have included a
subdirectory /ams/macintosh. This directory contains BinHex'ed StuffIt
archives of AMS products for use with Textures.

If you experience any problems with the files found in the AMS archive,
or have trouble with the archive in any way, you can direct questions to:
 
Technical Support Group
American Mathematical Society
201 Charles Street
P.O. Box 6248
Providence, RI 02940   USA
     (800) 321-4AMS (321-4267) ext. 4080
     (401) 455-4080
Internet:  tech-support@math.ams.com

(NOTE: The notation "1.0+" or "2.0+" used in various READ.ME files and
documentation files in this distribution is intended to stand for
"Version 1.0 or later" and "Version 2.0 and later" respecitvely.)