Thanks to all the people below for bug reporting, bug fixes, suggesting
future enhancements etc...  The list is in the order in which I received
the help - earliest help first. 

If I have forgotten anyone, please let me know, and I'll rectify the problem.


Special thanks to Jaka Mele <jack@zrsss.si> for allowing me ftp space
for use of alpha testers


PORTERS
-------

David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@AZStarNet.com>
- porting to Alpha


PEOPLE WHO HELPED WITH DEBUGGING 
--------------------------------

In chronological order (most recent to least recent)

David Fries <david@AeroSpace.miango.com>
- bug in bg_backup with filesystems with blocksizes of 1024 bytes
- change in memory allocation to avoid possible seg fault

Robert de Bath <rd103906@mayday.cix.co.uk>
- provided patches for spinbox, fsf for SCSI drives and BSD signal handling

Jelle Foks <jelle@scintilla.utwente.nl>
- suggestions for fixing broken pipe messages

Chuck Bermingham <bermingh@concentric.net>
- suggesting a change to try and overcome alarm clock error

Adam P. Jenkins <ajenkins@cs.umass.edu>
- finding floating point error in backup

Jan Echternach <echter@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
- major work in improving performance
  
Christophe Zwecker <doc@rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
- suggesting option to prompt for file restoration prior to restore

Mark Vytlacil <markvyt@tir.com>
- probelm with skipping files after a mounted point

Jan Echternach <echter@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
- reworkings of several parts of code, including FIFO handling, newlines 
   within filenames, converting non-printable chars to printable chars

Randy Gobbel <gobbel@cogsci.ucsd.edu>
- bug with 4GB tapes

Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>
- finding bug in environment variables NTAPE and TAPE

Martin Gallant <martyg@computek.net>
- finding the bug which was causing device file entries to
  be overwritten

Tweedie, Stephen <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- working out why some taper couldn't seek on some tape drives 
  when they really can seek: some drives start at block 1, and 
  some at block 0. Provided patches
- only seeking if need to advance by more than a certain number
  of blocks

Livsey, John <JLivsey@vnpbtrom.telecom.com.au>
- finding bug that resulted in files after an excluded directory
  not being included in backup set

Tweedie, Stephen <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- patches for using semaphores rather than wait loops - I actually
    converted them into use of pipes rather than semaphores

Fleck, Werner <wf@fleXoft.hamburg.netsurg.de>
- multiple problems with memory leaks etc.. that was causing
  crashes under libs 5.3.x
  
Church, Andy <achurch@clark.net>
- working out why backup & bg_backup got out of sync
- adding routine for checking available disk space while compressing
- finding a missing waitpid call

Quix, Christopher <quix@picasso.Informatik.RWTH-aachen.DE>
- pointing out read/write open of backup file

Chaffee, Gordon <chaffee@odie.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- pointing out bug in utils.c that caused crashing with unattended backup

Roger Gonzales <rg@datapult.com>
- no close in check_tape

Ferdinand Edenhofer <Ferdinand.Edenhofer@engliph.uni-muenchen.d400.de>
- multiple minor bugs

Malkin, Joe <joe@onwe.co.za>
- bug in compression routine for files > 32K on internal compression

Kies, Andreas <andi@andiunx.m.isar.de>
- suggesting using HOME/END in menus
- pointing out GCC 2.5.8 doesn't work

ramki@mars.superlink.net
- absolute value checksums

Lane, David <root@stan.lincoln.ac.nz>
- pointing out multiple bugs in 5.6 and 6.0

Schroeder, Heiko <heiko@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- problems if error messages too large for information boxes

Gerdts, Michael <gerdts@cae.wisc.edu>
- suggesting option of not erasing tape before use
- pointing out inconsistencies between DOCs and prog
- pointing out two bugs relating to preference file saving

Wray, Stephen <Steve.Wray@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ>
- considerable help in debugging the missing volume problem
- several useful suggestions for future versions

Locascio, Brian <locascio@accessnetchicago.net>
- pointing out problems with mkinfo

Marziani, Michele <marziani@vaxfe.fe.infn.it>
- return/newline problem with new ncurses version

Harris, AP <apharris@onShore.com> 
- small patch for TAPER.DOC regarding SCSI drives

Hildebrand, Josh <josh@mail.jedi.net>
- help debugging multiple tape archives

Schroeder, Marc <marc@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE> 
- inconsistencies between documentation program function & problem 
  with leading zeroes being written with a Conner 250MQ

Shore, Herbert <hshore@quantum.sdsu.edu> 
- problem with soft link files in restore

Makisara, Kai <Kai.Makisara@metla.fi> 
- the SCSI tape driver author: information on  SCSI tape driver

Welch, Mike <mike@tara.demon.co.uk> 
- problem with upper/lower case comparisons

de Weert, Gert <gw@xs4all.nl> 
- some user interface bugs

Henning Holtschneider <hh@hhdo.do.home.venture.net>
-  help with SCSI drive debugging

Kaluza, Olaf <olaf@criseis.ruhr.de> 
- information on some SCSI workings

Tack, Andreas <ib09@ttk1.ciw.uni-karlsrhue.de> 
- the peristent seg fault in early versions

Buchgeister, Markus <markus.buchgeister@uni-tuebingen.de> 
- bug in the including of ncurses in Makefile

Edwards, Colton <panasync@harrier.sasknet.sk.ca> 
- segmentation error on startup

Dancy, Ahmon <root@dancysoft.hip.berkeley.edu> 
- same as above

Frey, David <david@eos.uu.ch> 
- crashed if no environment variable TAPE set


PEOPLE WHO HELPED BY SUGGESTING IMPROVEMENTS, POINTING OUT BUGS ETC..
---------------------------------------------------------------------

In chronological order (most recent to least recent)

milliByte@DeathsDoor.com (Dirk Foersterling)
- entry for the FAQ regarding unfragmented memory and ftape module
- providing info to help work out why alphas not compatible with 6.7.4

Lars Heinemann <lars@uni-paderborn.de>
- pointing out that taper was not setting blocksize 
  prior to a restore

Jan Echternach <echter@hokkaido.informatik.uni-rostock.de>
- suggesting to update display only every second or so

Randy Gobbel <gobbel@cogsci.ucsd.edu>
- problem reallocating buffer sizes in preference menu
- info about TR4 drive

Werner Fleck <wf@fleXoft.hamburg.netsurf.de>
- considerable work on the old version, so of which I've integrated
  into the new version - mainly with speeding up processing

Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>
- finding problem with --tape-name: ie. --tape-type not being
  processed first

Allen, Marc <allen@chesapeake.rps.slb.co>
- suggesting search archive for filename/string
- suggesting details be printed in restore & backup
 
Hargrove, Paul H. <hargrove@sccm.Stanford.EDU>
- suggesting that users be allowed to specify a particular archive
  to append backups to in unattended mode

Bloch, Erich

Cordes, John <john@JCordes.Phys.Dal.Ca>
- pointing out that most recent restore not correctly working sometimes

Powell, Chris <helios@infoave.net>
- suggesting using tempnam for temporary filenames so can customize
  where temporary files go

Shutko, Alan <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>
- suggesting quiting a directory size operation
- not properly excluding directories
- suggesting --one-file-system option

Juergen, Scherer <Juergen.Scherer@dfki.uni-sb.de>
- suggesting info file compression

Haardt, Michael <michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- suggesting full restore without info file

Koelwijm, Aart <aart@kolhus.hobby.nl>
- option to abort if end of tape during backup

Farris, George <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>
- suggesting a tape size option

Snyder, David <David_Snyder@vos.stratus.com>
- problem if only one block needed to be written to the new tape

Marziani, Michele <marziani@vaxfe.fe.infn.it>
- couple of bugs in Makefile and preferences

Ward, Gary <garyw@netcom.com>
- pointing out the signal 11 problem

Sullivan, Michael <michaels@kc2kj.k2nesoft.com> 
Waldorf, Markus <100022.2373@compuserve.com>
- help in tracking down the bug which caused files to be missing 
  in restore window

Hiller, James <jhiller@crl.com>
- suggesting man page go in section 8

Lemke, Manfred <ukpr@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- suggesting an option in the utilities menu for testing is a tape
  drive needs make tape

Anderson, Gary <ganderson@clark.net>
- suggesting a -static option in Makefile

Ludwig, Dr Thomas <ludwig@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
- printing final statistics 
- multiple bug fixes

Hess, Joey <joey@kite.ithaca.ny.us>
- printing time remaining in backup

Graf, Christoph <olaf@ulaf.uu.ch> 
- problem with filenames containing '$'

Henders, John <jhenders@stdismas.bogon.com>
- suggestion of adding info file at end of archive <it's in TODO> 

Herold, Michael <root@abadonna.franken.de>
- pointed out few bugs in the user interface

Dahlquist, Kjell <kjell@df.lth.se> 
- restore -l problem, strip_path problem

Sung, Danny <danny@seas.ucla.edu> 
- multiple suggestions for future versions

Kautz, Helge Thorsten <helge@anykey.gun.de> 
- multiple suggestions for user interface

Lameter, Chris <clameter@waterf.org> 
- same as above and segmentation error on startup
- suggesting to try & check if tape in drive

Jones, Brett <root@escargot.com>
- suggesting file list backups

Juergen, Scherer <Juergen.Scherer@dfki.uni-sb.de>
- suggesting info file compression

Shutko, Alan <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>
- suggesting quiting a directory size operation
- not properly excluding directories


OTHER
-----

Forsyth, Jolyon Donald Roy <jolyon@multiline.com.au>
- WEB page designer and maintainer

Heine, Claus-Justus <claus@willi.rwth-aachen.de>
- writing the zftape driver and adding an ioctl to 
  the driver that I needed - MT_GETBLKSIZE

Gailly, Jean-loup <jloup@chorus.fr>
- the author of gzip, whose code I have shamelessly pinched and hacked
  
Williams, Ross
- author of a LZRW3 compress routine whose code I have pinched & hacked

  



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