About the Mathematics Archives Gopher

The primary goal of the Mathematics Archives Gopher is to provide 
you with access to most public domain and shareware software and 
many other materials which can used in the teaching of mathematics 
at the community college, college and university level.  A database 
consisting of information of the above mentioned software and about 
commercial packages which also can be used in the teaching of 
mathematics is accessible through this gopher.  This database 
contains abstracts, reviews, references to reviews and other 
information about these software packages.  For more information on 
the organization of the Mathematics Archives Gopher, return to the 
main menu and choose the menu item, Organization of the Mathematics 
Archives Gopher.

In addition, the Mathematics Archives Gopher will attempt to provide 
access to all other gophers which would provide information in the 
teaching of mathematics. We have also provided access to many 
gophers of interest to mathematicians; we will be sorting through
these gophers, picking out items and reorganizing those which 
correspond to our primary goal mentioned above.

The Mathematics Archives is supported by the National Science
Foundation (ILI Leadership Grant No. DUE-9351398), the State of 
Tennessee Science Alliance and the Departments of Mathematics at 
Calvin College and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  (Further
information is available through the National Science Foundation 
Gopher (STIS) accessible from the Mathematics Archives by selecting:
   Other Mathematics Gophers and Anonymous FTP Sites/
and then
   National Science Foundation Gopher (STIS)/
or by gophering directly to stis.nsf.gov using port 70.)

The directors of the Mathematics Archives are Earl D. Fife (Calvin 
College, efife@archives.math.utk.edu) and Larry Husch (The University 
of Tennessee, Knoxville, husch@archives.math.utk.edu).

Newsletters which contain abstracts of recent additions or revisions
of software and other materials are sent out via e-mail.  To be
placed on the mailing list, contact Earl Fife about the Macintosh
newsletter and Larry Husch about the MSDOS newsletter.  The MSDOS
newsletter is posted to the electronic news groups  sci.math.*.

All executables located on the Mathematics Archives are checked for
viruses; however, the ultimate responsibility of checking the 
software for viruses belongs to you as the downloader of the 
packages.  You as the downloader of the packages are also solely 
responsible and liable for all use you make of these packages.
Neither the moderators, reviewers, contributors of information, nor 
the institutions with which these are associated shall be held liable 
for any use that may be made of files obtained from the archive. 
All transactions to the Mathematics Archives are logged; when 
possible, we will use these logs to track usage, to inform 
downloaders of new versions of packages and to solicit reviews of 
these packages.  IF YOU DO NOT APPROVE OF THESE CONDITIONS, PLEASE 
LOG OFF FROM THE MATHEMATICS ARCHIVES NOW.

Have fun with the Mathematics Archives Gopher!  If you encounter
any problems with the gopher or have suggestions on how to
improve the offerings of this gopher, please contact Earl or
Larry.  You can send a message to them using the address

                 help@archives.math.utk.edu

or the addresses mentioned above.
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