Mr. Pearse, One more issue we need to discuss is the documentation format you need for this project. We did not discuss this with you at our first meeting, and Dr. Oman has informed us that you will need a modifiable set of documents at the end of the semester. He also believes that you do not want the documentation in LaTeX format, which we have been using for all of our documentation. We chose LaTeX because it creates a very professional document without a lot of work. Also, it is the best option at present for doing work on unix machines, since there are no "word processors" easily available. If LaTeX is not acceptable for you, we see one possible alternative of producing the documentation in HTML format. We have experimented with latex2html, a program available freely on the Internet. This program does an excellent job of converting LaTeX files into multiple-page HTML files and includes any graphics inline. We think this is a very good option for the documentation since we understand that using HTML for documentation is common at Hewlett Packard. At this point, we feel that totally recreating our documents in a different format (i.e. MS Word), would be a very large project and would not be a prudent use of our resources in the time we have left. Please let us know your thoughts on this issue. Sincerely, Noah Sutherland Team Leader CS481 Team B