Pataraia's fixed-point theorem is by now very famous, and I know many of the readers of this list are very kin on it, and some of us have actually made use of it. But he didn't publish it, as most of you know. I have a version written by him he sent me on 31st May 2000. I feel a version written by him should either be published and/or made publicly available in a sufficiently long-lasting place in the internet. This should be very useful. Perhaps other people also have copies of his original manuscript, but I have never seen a copy other than the one he sent me. I don't feel particularly comfortable to take the initiative of making publicly available what he sent me then. Perhaps somebody sufficiently close to him should do that, and I would be happy to provide the version of his manuscript I have, if it is not already available to them. By coincidence, this week I got messages about that from two different groups of people, and hence I thought it would be useful to make his original manuscript widely available. M. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]