🚀 go-pugleaf

glenn forney (comp.text.tex, 15 august 1992) asks if back issues
of tugboat articles are available via ftp.

a few are, but not too many.  it has long been a tug policy that
articles describing macros, which include the macros, should be
made available for ftp.  however, lack of time and assistance in
preparing them for distribution has prevented the necessary work
from being completed.  those which are available are usually to
be found (in any good archive) in a directory in the tex tree
with "tugboat" in its name.  at labrea.stanford.edu the area is
/tex/tugboat .

the standard for files which are to be used electronically by a
general audience must be considerably higher than that for articles
which are to be seen only in the form of output on paper, in order
to avoid unnecessary questions.  doing the necessary cleanup is the
step that is lacking.  there will be an effort made to get this
work done, but i can't promise when.

full tables of contents for all issues are available in the existing
archive locations.  the file naming convention is
   tbNNYY.cnt  --  contents for an entire year (YY); NN = volume
   tbcvNN.tex  --  a "driver file" that will generate 5 years of
                   contents pages; NN is a multiple of 5 and gives
                   the last volume number of the group
   tbcont.def  --  macros needed to tex the contents
texing this material also requires the plain tugboat style:
tugboat.sty and tugboat.cmn .

all back issues of tugboat are available on paper from the tug office.
send inquiries to
   tug@math.ams.org
(please note the change of address; the old address will continue
to work for some time yet, but people communicating with anyone
@math.ams... should get used to the new address.)
						-- bb