• Make sure your program works on a recent version of Gri.
• Collect your Gri commandfile and all necessary datafiles in one directory.
• Write a short file called README, in which you fill in the blanks under these headings:
  • Author(s)
  • Date
  • Version of Gri used
  • Uses color?
  • Comments (optional)
  • Index Entries (optional)
  I'll collate this information into a terse paragraph introducing the example.
• Collect these files using the tar program, and then compress them, e.g. for a program called foo with datafiles foo1.dat and foo2.dat, do this:

  tar -chof eg.tar foo.gri foo1.dat foo2.dat README
  gzip eg.tar
  

• Put the files in your anonymous FTP area, if you have one.
• Inform the Gri users of your contribution by mailing a message to gri@open.dal.ca with subject line Cookbook contribution}. (The subject line will thus let uninterested users know to delete the message without reading it.) In your message, indicate the SITE:DIRECTORY of the file in your FTP area, or indicate your intention to mail the tar file to anybody who asks.

If other Gri users support your proposal to include the example, then I'll add it to the cookbook. I will do only minimal editing of the commandfile: (1) I'll add a ``contributed by'' comment to the commandfile, (2) reformat it in a uniform style, and (3) email the result back to the author for final testing.

As editor, I will be collating these files, not checking them or supporting them. Similarly, contributers will not be expected to support their code; otherwise I doubt that anybody will contribute.