0. Thanks to Tom Closer for his help in updating the KSU style files.
1. Download thesis.zip 
2. Unzip thesis.zip
3. In thesis directory, you have all the basic files. 
   Other style files such as a style for algorithms, super-tabular, 
   bib-units, index, glossary, etc. can be found at 
   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
   if they are not already part of the tex tree in your system.
4. To run your thesis, you can simply use latex and dvipdf or directly use 
   pdflatex to generate the document.
   a. type "latex thesis" or "latex thesis.tex".
   b. type "bib thesis" to generate the bibliography.
   c. type "latex thesis" again to get cross references 
   d. type "dvipdf thesis" or "dvipdf thesis" thesis.pdf or 
      thesis.pdf.
6. If you have any technical questions, send peyravi@cs.kent.edu e-mail.

The CS thesis archive contains the following:

- thesis
 |- IEEETran.bst and IEEETransS.bst - the IEEE transactions bibstyle files
 |                                    used for the bibliography
 |- csthesis.cls - the document class conforming to the style guide and exceptions
 |                 for electronic submisssion (with issues noted below)
 |- csabstract-cls - the document class to produce the separate abstract page 
 |                   according to the electronic submission requirements
 |- csblanksig.cls - the document class for producing the separate signature page
 |                   according to the electronic submission requirements
 |- thesis.tex - an example Latex document that uses csthesis.cls and IEEETran.bst
 |- abstract.tex - an example Latex document thas uses csabstract.cls
 |- blanksig.tex - an example Latex document that uses csblanksig.cls
 |- *.pdf - the resulting pdf files from the included *.tex documents
 |- thesis.bib - an example bibtex bibliography used with thesis.tex
 |- fig - a directory containing an eps used in thesis.tex

All other files can be safely ignored.

Known Issues:
1 - The header for the TABLE OF CONTENTS, LIST OF FIGURES, LIST OF TABLES and BIBLIOGAPHY are 2.125 inches from the top of the page.  At the moment there is 
no easy way to correct this and this deviation from the style guide has not been
the source of rejection by the College of A&S.

2 - I have noticed that recent versions of ps2pdf modify the margins substantially.
I recommend producing the pdf directly from the dvi.

3 - This document class only supports the requirements for producing a Master's
thesis.  I hope to update the thesis document classes when time permits.