------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT TYPE : X1 DISCLAIMER LANGUAGE : ENGLISH TEXT TYPE : NON-FORMATTED ASCII CHARACTER SET : LOWER 128 ASCII CHARACTERS PROGRAM VERSION DESCRIBED : - LAST UPDATE (YEAR MONTH DAY): 950810 LAST UPDATE NOTE : PRELIMINARY TEXT -- LATER CHANGES MAY OCCUR TYPED BY : S.V. OTHER DOCUMENTS : X1 NEWS, X1 USER MANUAL, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============== = OVERVIEW = ============== 1. Preface 2. Acknowledgements 3. Trademarks 4. Disclaimers 1. Preface ========== This file contains the stuff, which you're encouraged to read before doing anything else - but probably won't end up reading more than once. It has little or none to do with the actual use of the program - but provides me with the possibility to express my gratitude to people who has helped me (well, not me but You, dear reader - because this is a non-commercial product). The disclaimer furthermore allows setting up legal safeguards to protect all parties. 2. Acknowledgements: ==================== A personal thanks to the following people: ------------------------------------------ Tycho Fruru (Belgium): You tested this archiver with unique persistence - and made valuable proposals. Helping me from the start... *Thanks*, Tycho! P. Lai: Thanks for bug-testing and encouragement. You really turned the spotlight on compatibility with weird archives versions such as UNIX-LHA... G.D.Flint: Investigating all methods with the same energy - allowing location of errors in less efficient methods... (zip shrink). Jeff Gilchrist and Jonathan Burt Who make archiver benchmark tests - providing increased competition between the archivers - resulting in improved products for evrybody. Their lists attempt to measure true archiver performance - enabling people to find one, which best fits individual requirements (putting aside the often repeated "I'm the the best" statements from various sides). And with an ever increasing number of archivers, this is a significant help. Keep up the good work guys!! Language translators: --------------------- Others (including some which I have never had contact with): ------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Scheffold and Thomas Pytel - authors of "PMODE/W" (copyrighted (c) 1995, all rights reserved...e-mail: daredevi@dorsai.dorsai.org and y28si@cunyvm.cuny.edu). As this project is strictly non-commercial, then their DOS extender was used (freely) in this DOS executable. Peter Gutmann - allowing me to use some multi-lingual messages from the HPACK language module (my Polish was rather poor..). John G. Cleary * Ian H. Witten * Alistair Moffat * J. Ziv * Paul G. Howard * P. Elias * D. E. Knuth * G. G. Langdon * D. A. Huffman * Peter M. Fenwick * Marcelo J. Weinberger * R. G. Gallager * W. B. Pennebaker * R. F. Rice * A. Lempel * J. S. Vitter * Jorma J. Rissanen * Ronald B. Arps * W. J. Teahan ...who provided so many interesting articles - with hints to things that just HAD! to implemented :-) Haruhiko Okumura * Haruyasu Yoshizaki * Harri Hirvola * Rahul Dhesi * Robert and Susan Jung * Kai Uwe Rommel * Serg Babitchew * Dean W. Cooper * Mark Adler * J. Rollason * Harald Feldmann * Nico De Vries * P.Sawatzki * John Ross * Kazuhiko Miki * Ken Masuyama * Klaus Peter Nischke * J. Y. Lim * Richard B. Wales * Jean-loup Gailly * Michael A. Kosior * Mike Davenport * Andy McFadden * Jim Miller * Eugene Roshal * Milen Georgiev * Phil Katz * Jonas I Hammarberg * Igor Mandrichenko * Alexander Shurna * Charles Bloom * Sergio Leone * Sergio Corbucci * Ennio Morricone (did I forget somebody?) ...who provided either valuable sources or inspired with competition (or something else). 3. Trademarks ============= Trademarks of other companies mentioned anywhere appear for identification purposes only and are the property of their respective companies. 4DOS is copyrighted by JP Software. ARC is a trademark of System Enhancement Associates, Inc. ARJ is a trademark of Robert K Jung and Susan Jung Amiga is a trademark of Commodore Business Machines (now liquidated). ArcMaster is a trademark of New-Ware Archimedes is a trademark of Acorn Computers. Borland C, Turbo C, Borland C++, Turbo C++, are registered trademarks of Borland Inc. CP/M, CP/M-80 and CP/M 2.2 are trademarks of (Intergalactic) Digital Research. CompatiCard is a trademark of MicroSolutions, Inc. GIF is a trademark of Compuserve Inc. HA is a trademark Hamarsoft (R),Hap TM and Pah TM are registered trademarks by Harald Feldmann High-C IBM, IBM PC, PC-XT, PC-AT, PC-DOS and OS/2 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. Intel,Pentium are a trademark of Intel Corp. MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Inc. Macintosh,PowerMac are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Moterola is a trademark of Moterola Corp. NDOS is a trademark of Symantec Corp. (under licence by 4DOS). Netware and Novell are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. RAR is a trademark of Eugene Roshal PAK is a trademark of NoGate Consulting Inc. PKWARE, the PKWARE logo, PKZIP, PKUNZIP, and PKSFX are registered trademarks of PKWARE, Inc. Prime, Primos are trademarks of Prime Computer Corp. QNX is a trademark of Rolemaster is a trademark of Iron Crown Enterprises Inc. Stacker is a trademark of StuffIt is a trademark of Raymond Lau and Aladdin Systems. StupenDOS is a trademark of Eclipse Technologies, Inc. Sun is a trademark of UltraCompressor 2, Ultracrypt, UltraSafe are trademarks of AIP-NL ThinkC is a trademark of Symantec Corporation. UNIX is both a trademark and a footnote of AT&T. 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