How to view preprints.

These are dvi files. You can simply download these files to your system, and view them with a viewer (such as xdvi or ghostscript on unix systems) or print them out. They can also be viewed "on the fly" with most browsers.

In Netscape if your system is set up correctly when you click on the link to the dvi file a viewer will open. If you are using X-Windows (as we do here in the math department at Maryland) you need to do two things:

You need a .mime.types file, with the line (among others):

And you need a .mailcap file with one of the lines (among others):

The first is for xdvi, the second for ghostscript. These should be in your home directory, I think; that is where mine are. You can look at my .mime.types and .mailcap files. Don't ask me more about this - all I know is it works.