This directory contains the bylaws of NICE in various forms: [1] - The Postscript version is `bylaws.ps'. [2] - The version in MIF (FrameMaker portable interchange format) is `bylaws.mif'. [3] - The text in ASCII is `bylaws.ascii'. [4] - The version in Sparc FrameMaker format is `bylaws.frame'. [5] - The original text (troff format) is `bylaws.troff'. The subdirectory `compressed' contains the same files in compressed (.Z) forms, plus a copy of this README. Note that the reference version (the one that has been deposited with the California Secretary of State) was printed from [5], the troff version. Since few people are interested in troff these days I have converted it to FrameMaker 4.0 (15 June 1995). The conversion has been checked but errors might of course remain; in case of discrepancy the troff version [5] should serve as a reference. There is no known difference between the two versions except for those due to small differences between the two text processing systems (font sizes etc.) and the decision to capitalize the first letter of the word ``Section'' throughout the new version. (In the original it was sometimes capitalized, sometimes not.) The Postscript version [1] was generated from FrameMaker. The ASCII version [3] was generated from troff (i.e. [5]) since the ASCII generation mechanism of FrameMaker is worse than nroff (the ASCII version of troff). -- Bertrand Meyer