This is file http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~seligman/ccfr/thesis/READ_ME The entire W. Seligman thesis is available in this directory. The thesis errata can be found at http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~seligman/errata.html. The thesis is about 475 pages long, and (depending on the file format) takes up over 20 megabytes of disk space. Think carefully before copying it to your own computer and printing it. Consider the following: -- If you need a figure from the thesis, look in the eps/ sub-directory which contains links to almost all the figures in the thesis. If you're looking for a particular figure but don't know its number in the thesis, then look through pub/ccfr/ps/plots-color or pub/ccfr/ps/plots-bw. -- If you want to read the thesis itself, consider getting a copy from Nevis Labs. You can send e-mail to seligman@nevis1.columbia.edu, or you can write to Anne Therrien, Nevis Labs, P.O. Box 137, Irvington NY 10533 USA and ask for Nevis Report 292. It will take a week or two before you get a copy, but that may be better than tying up a laser printer for three hours. If you've decided that you must have my thesis right now, then you have your choice of file formats: .bin -- The thesis was written in Microsoft Word version 5.1a on a Macintosh. These files contain the original MS-Word 5 documents in MacBinary format. If your telecommunications program doesn't support MacBinary, or if you don't have MS-Word for the Mac or Wintel, then don't bother with these files. .rtf -- These files are written in Rich Text Format, a popular exchange format among word processors. In particular, Scientific Word can import these files and convert them to TeX (or LaTeX or whatever SW uses). .ps -- These files are the thesis in Postscript format. The .rtf and .ps files are text files, and therefore can be FTPed in ASCII mode without any problems. All of the above files have the thesis figures embedded within them.