File Extensio List Credits
==========================

All corrections and contributions are most welcome! I personally am all
the time checking for new extensions, for which the computer magazine
reviews and advertisements have proved to be quite useful, even though
2/3 of all extensions have been checked from the original manuals. As
far as I'm concerned this collection can be freely used in any kind of
projects as long as the origin is mentioned and appropriate credit is
given. Usually this means you have to mention Filex, how to get it and
include this file in your project. Thus spoke the Author and Maintainer.

I'd like to think that programmers would check this out before giving
extensions to the files of their programs. There are some common and
generally understood extensions, so please use them and especially DON'T
MISUSE those generally understood extensions. As an example I'd like to
remind that GNUzip at first used extension .z, which was mixed up with
extension .Z used by Compress since the dawn of the Computer Age.
Fortunately Mr. Richard Stallman later changed GNUzip extension to .gz.
This database had nothing to do with it, but it might prevent such
unfortunate and most confusing incidents in the future.

The following individuals have been most helpful, first when I collected
the original Extension List and later updating it. There are more, but
unfortunately I started to keep this credits list only after releasing
Filex 1.2, which btw was the third public release of the Extensio List:

- The First Version for file.btm ---------------------------------------
The major part of list was created when I spent hours and days and weeks
in Computer Center's Manual Room. Good ventilation, I caught cold :)

- The Second Version before releasing Filex 1.0 ------------------------
Richard Breuer	   helped to plan this program, more or less aware of it
Volker Schardin	   Volker's Extension List - Version: 25.02.93

- The Credits since Filex 1.2 ------------------------------------------
Minh Tran		general
Duane A. Paulson	1st Reader,ILink,Signature
Piotr Karocki		LogoScript,Scream Tracker,MS Publisher,
			lots of general
Darrel R. Hankerson	general
Volker Schardin		Volker's Extension List - Version: 26.06.93

- Availability ---------------------------------------------------------
The latest official Filex (File Extension Identifier) version should
always be available by ftp as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/fileutil/filex*.zip

- Author ---------------------------------------------------------------
Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1993
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