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\date {March 24}
\stanford  
\to {Dr. Neil Toews\cr
Rock Mechanics Laboratory\cr
Mineral Research Laboratories\cr
Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology\cr
555 Booth St.\cr
Ottawa, CANADA\cr
K1A 0G1\cr}
{\noindent Dear Dr. Toews:}

This is in reply to your letter to Professor Knuth dated 11 March 1982.

The \TEX\ and {\caps metafont} programs have been placed in the public
domain and we make them freely available to anyone who has the necessary
computer facilities to use them.

If you are not familiar with the complexity of installing these programs
on a computer, I suggest that you get in touch with Rick Mallett in the
Academic Support Group of Computer Services at Carleton University,
Colonel By Drive, in Ottawa.  This group reports having \TEX\ up and
running on their Honeywell CP-6 computer system. 

The easiest way for you to get copies of these programs would be for you
to get them from Carleton University, perhaps paying the University for
the cost of making the information available to you.  If you do this, I
will be glad to send you a duplicate set of the hard copy documentation.
We only ask that the recipients send us a check for the approximate cost
of reproducing and mailing the information which we arbitrarily assumed to
be \$20 per document.  The alternative would be for us to make a new tape
for you and for this we would ask for a \$120 check, made payable to
Stanford University and mailed to me.

I would appreciate hearing as to what you decide to do and if you
decide to make use of \TEX, we would like to know something about your
computer facilities and of your success.  

If you have any special questions that the group at Carleton cannot
answer, please feel free to write me.

\sign {\hfill Sincerely yours,\cr\ssqip\cr
\hfill Arthur L. Samuel}

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