1 gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly <gzip@gnu.org>, with portions
2 written by Mark Adler (inflate.c), Peter Jannesen (unlzw.c) and
3 Haruhiko Okumura (unlzh.c). The zip deflate format was defined by Phil Katz.
4 Thanks to those who reported problems and suggested various
5 improvements. Here is a partial list of them:
7 Robert Abramovitz bromo@cougar.tandem.com
8 Jay Adams jka@ece.cmu.edu
9 Mark Adler madler@cco.caltech.edu
10 Edwin Allum edwin@csri.toronto.edu
11 Joseph Arceneaux jla@gnu.ai.mit.edu
12 Tim Auckland tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk
13 Ken-ichiro Aoki aoki@madonna.physics.ucla.edu
14 David Ascher da@marlowe.cog.brown.edu
15 Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
16 Becky A. Badgett badgett@cs.utexas.edu
17 Bo Nygaard Bai bai@iesd.auc.dk
18 Dave Barber dbarber@apocalypse.bbn.com
19 Rene Beaulieu reneb@distri.hydro.qc.ca
20 Neal Becker neal@ctd.comsat.com
21 Dieter Becker becker@med-in.uni-sb.de
22 Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@geronimo.math.utah.edu
23 Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.rain.com
24 David J. N. Begley dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
25 Bob Beresh rberesh@rd.hydro.on.ca
26 Jim Bernard jbernard@iola.mines.colorado.edu
27 Karl Berry karl@cs.umb.edu
28 James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com
29 Scott Bolte scott@craycos.com
30 Wayne E. Bouchard web@paladine.hacks.arizona.edu
31 Marc Boucher marc@cam.org
32 Ola Brahammar pt90ob@pt.hk-r.se
33 Dave Brennan brennan@hal.com
34 Alan Brown dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz
35 Michael L. Brown brown@wi.extrel.com
36 Rodney Brown rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
38 Bill Bumgarner bbum@stone.com
39 Leila Burrell-Davis leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk
40 Roger Butenuth butenuth@ira.uka.de
41 Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu
42 Bud Carlson bud@isle.pegasus.com
43 Lim Fung Chai fclim@i1sin.daq.semi.harris.com
44 Wes Chalfant wes@kofax.com
45 Andrew A. Chernov ache@astral.msk.su
46 Paul Close pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
47 Jeff Coffler coffler@jac.enet.dec.com
48 Will Colley wcc3@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
49 Roger Cornelius sherpa!rac@uunet.uu.net
50 Kevin Cosgrove kevinc@tekig6.pen.tek.com
51 Stephen J Cowley s.j.cowley@amtp.cam.ac.uk
52 Ron Cox roncox@indirect.com
53 Frank Crawford frank@photon.ansto.gov.au
54 James R. Crawford qralston@cislabs.pitt.edu
55 Lawrence Crowl crowl@research.cs.orst.edu
56 Klaus Dahlenburg kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de
57 William E Davidsen davidsen@ariel.crd.ge.com
58 John M. DeDourek dedourek@aixive2.cs.unb.ca
59 Jeff Deifik jdeifik@isi.edu
60 Vince DeMarco vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca
61 Michael De La Rue p91152@cplab.physics.edinburgh.ac.uk
62 Jeff Delinck delinck@pa621a.inland.com
63 John DeRoo deroo@grout.adv.shr.dec.com
64 Jim Diamond zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca
65 Stefano Diomedi sd@teculx.tecsiel.it
66 Lawrence R. Dodd dodd@roebling.poly.edu
67 Matthew Donadio donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu
68 Andy Dougherty andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu
69 Darrell Duane dduane@mason1.gmu.edu
70 John Eaton jwe@che.utexas.edu
71 Will Edgington wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
72 Brian Edmonds edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca
73 Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
74 Enami enami@sys.ptg.sony.co.jp
75 Kristoffer Eriksson ske@pkmab.se
76 Daniel Eriksson m91der@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
77 Rik Faith faith@cs.unc.edu
78 Larry Fahnoe fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org
79 Cristian Ferretti cfs@poincare.mat.puc.cl
80 Karl-Jose Filler pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de
81 Valery Fine fine@vxcern.cern.ch
82 Bob Fischer bobf@milne.geology.yale.edu
83 Per Foreby perf@efd.lth.se
84 Alexander Fraser alex@cs.umb.edu
85 Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
86 Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@iphase.com
87 Gerhard Friesland-Koepke frieslan@rzdspc3.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
88 Andy Fyfe andy@scp.caltech.edu
89 Geoff geoff@frs.faxon.com
90 Arnd Gerns gerns@informatik.uni-hildesheim.de
91 Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@staccato.rutgers.edu
92 Torbjorn Granlund tege@sics.se
93 Carl Greco cgreco@parrot.creighton.edu
94 Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
95 Junio Hamano junio@shadow.twinsun.com
96 Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche@ams.sunysb.edu
97 Darrel R. Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
98 Mark Hanning-Lee markhl@romeo.caltech.edu
99 Lars Hecking st000002@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
100 Ruediger Helsch ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
101 Mark C. Henderson mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca
102 Karl Heuer karl@kelp.boston.ma.us
103 Jarkko Hietaniemi jhi@dol-guldur.hut.fi
104 Thomas Hiller hiller@fzi.de
105 Eiji Hirai hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu
106 Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjetilho@ifi.uio.no
107 Robert D. Houk rdh@sli.com
108 Jim Howard jim_howard@mentorg.com
109 Preston Hunt gt5708a@prism.gatech.edu
110 Shane C Hutchins sch@nymph.msel.unh.edu
111 Hutch hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
112 Lester Ingber ingber@alumni.caltech.edu
113 Ken Ishii ishii@sni-usa.com
114 Per Steinar Iversen iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
115 Chris Jacobsen jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu
116 Michal Jaegermann ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
117 Brian Jones brianj@skat.usc.edu
118 Denny de Jonge witaddj@dutrex.tudelft.nl
119 Arne H. Juul arnej@lise.unit.no
120 Dana Jacobsen jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov
121 Peter Jannesen peter@ncs.nl
123 Brian D. Johnston johnstonb@med.ge.com
124 Walter W. Jones wwj@candela.cfr.nist.gov
125 Tom Judson judson@scf.usc.edu
126 Henry G. Juengst juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de
127 Sarantos Kapidakis sarantos%manteion@ics.forth.gr
128 Amir J. Katz amir@matis.ingr.com
129 Steve Kelem kelem@castor.xilinx.com
130 Steven Kimball kimball@shrew.sanders.lockheed.com
131 Randy Kirchhof rkk@posms.aus.tx.us
132 Ned Kittlitz kittlitz@seagoon.sw.stratus.com
133 Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@mtl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
134 Philip C Kizer pckizer@gonzo.tamu.edu
135 Pete Klammer pklammer@ouray.denver.colorado.edu
136 Fritz Kleemann kleemann@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
137 Wilhelm B. Kloke wb@ifado.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de
138 Tom Kloos tk@sequent.com
139 Carsten Koch carsten.koch@icem.de
140 Winfried Koenig win@in.rhein-main.de
141 Mathias Koerber mathias@solomon.technet.sg
142 Steph Konigsdorfer s.konigsdorfer@frmy.bull.fr
143 Leif Kornstaedt leif@rumtifsl.ruessel.sub.org
144 Michael D. Lawler mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
145 Kevin Layer layer@franz.com
146 Howard D. Leadmon howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org
147 Alexander Lehmann alex@hal.rhein-main.de
148 Simon Leinen simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
149 Burt Leland burt@molecular.com
150 Tony Leneis tony@plaza.adp.ds.com
151 Hugues Leroy hugues.leroy@irisa.fr
152 Marty Leisner leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
153 Charles Levert charles@aramis.comm.polymtl.ca
154 Richard Levitte levitte@e.kth.se
155 Torbj|rn Lindh toobii@elixir.e.kth.se
156 David R. Linn drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
157 Antonio Lioy cat@athena.polito.it
158 Jamie Lokier u90jl@ecs.oxford.ac.uk
159 Richard Lloyd R.K.Lloyd@csc.liv.ac.uk
160 David J. MacKenzie djm@eng.umd.edu
161 John R MacMillan john@chance.gts.org
162 Ron Male male@eso.mc.xerox.com
163 Don R. Maszle maze@bea.lbl.gov
164 Jaye Mathisen osyjm@cs.montana.edu
165 Telly Mavroidis mavroidi@acf2.nyu.edu
166 Imed Eddine Mbarki mbarki@pacific.cmpe.psu.edu
167 Steeve McCauley steeve@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca
168 Tom McConnell tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
169 Tod McQuillin mcquill@ccit05.duq.edu
170 Tye McQueen tye@spillman.com
171 Bernd Melchers melchers@chemie.fu-berlin.de
172 Jason Merrill jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
173 Dean S. Messing deanm@medulla.labs.tek.com
174 M. Mesturino mesturino@cselt.stet.it
175 Luke Mewburn zak@rmit.edu.au
176 Jim Meyering meyering@cs.utexas.edu
177 Dragan Milicic milicic@math.utah.edu
178 Frederic Miserey none.fred@applelink.apple.com
179 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
180 Soren Juul Moller sjm@dde.dk
181 Chris Moore moore@src.bae.co.uk
182 Dan Mosedale mosedale@genome.stanford.edu
183 Helmut Muelner hmuelner@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at
184 Urban D Mueller umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
185 Ulrich Mueller ulm@vsnhdb.cern.ch
186 Timothy Murphy tim@maths.tcd.ie
187 Greg Naber greg@squally.halcyon.com
188 Jay Nayegandhi jayng@bbiv02.enet.dec.com
189 Paul K. Neville II pkn2@idsi.com
190 Karl L. Noell noell@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.dbp.de
191 Demizu Noritoshi nori-d@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
192 Todd Ogasawara todd@protege.pegasus.com
193 Helge Oldach helge.oldach@stollmann.de
194 Arthur David Olson ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov
195 Piet van Oostrum piet@cs.ruu.nl
196 Rafael R. Pappalardo rafapa@obelix.cica.es
197 Mike Pearlman canuck@masc38.rice.edu
198 Yves Perrenoud pyves@nuga.alphanet.ch
199 Hal Peterson hrp@pecan.cray.com
200 Pascal Petit petit@cadillac.ibp.fr
201 Bruno Pillard bp@chorus.fr
202 Franc,ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
203 Jay Pinkos pinkos@butyng.bu.edu
204 Thomas Plass thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
205 Mike Polo mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
206 Francesco Potorti pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
207 Will Priest bpriest@lobby.ti.com
208 David Purves purves@apogee.com
209 Andreas Raab ar@nvmr.robin.de
210 Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com
211 Klaus Reimann kr@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
212 Michael Rendell michael@mercury.cs.mun.ca
213 Hal Render render@massive.uccs.edu
214 Julian F. Reschke julian@math.uni-muenster.de
215 Phil Richards Phil.Richards@prg.oxford.ac.uk
216 Roland B Roberts roberts@nsrl31.nsrl.rochester.edu
217 Arnold Robbins arnold@cc.gatech.edu
218 Kevin Rodgers kevin@rolling-stone.den.mmc.com
219 Kai Uwe Rommel rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
220 Paul Rubin phr@america.telebit.com
221 Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang@wsrcc.com
222 Jonathan Ryshpan jon@amito.hitachi.com
223 Paul A Sand pas@unh.edu
224 Tony Sanders sanders@bsdi.com
225 Mike Sangrey mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
226 Niimi Satoshi a01309@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
227 Marc Schaefer sysadm@alphanet.ch
228 Andreas Schwab schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
229 Eric Schenk schenk@cs.toronto.edu
230 Eric P. Scott eps@cs.sfsu.edu
231 Olaf Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl
232 Sunando Sen sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
233 Harry Shamansky hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu
234 Amos Shapira amoss@cs.huji.ac.il
235 Rick Sladkey jrs@world.std.com
236 Daniel L Smith dls@autodesk.com
237 Fred Smith fredex%fcshome@merk.merk.com
238 Stephen Soliday soliday@ncat.edu
239 Paul Southworth pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
240 Rob Spencer robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
241 Richard Stallman rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
242 Carsten Steger carsten.steger@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
243 David Sundstrom sunds@anon.asic.sc.ti.com
244 Ed Sznyter ews@babel.babel.com
245 Hideaki Tanabe arctanx@iyeyasu.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
246 Andrew Telford ajt@peregrin.resmel.bhp.com.au
247 Glenn E. Thobe thobe@getunx.info.com
248 Kei Thomsen kt@keihh.hanse.de
249 Karsten Thygesen karthy@dannug.dk
250 Mark Towfiq towfiq@microdyne.com
251 Jeff Treece treece@sabbagh.com
252 Oliver Trepte oliver@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se
253 Stephane Tsacas slt@is21.isoft.fr
254 Stephen Tweedie sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
255 John R. Vanderpool fish@daacdev1.stx.com
256 Sotiris Vassilopoulos vassilopoulos@virginia.edu
257 Pedro A. M. Vazquez vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br
258 Arjan de Vet devet@win.tue.nl
259 Larry W. Virden lvirden@cas.org
260 Vadim V. Vlasov vvlasov@inucres.msk.su
261 Eduard Vopicka eduard.vopicka@vse.cs
262 Theo Vosse vosse@ruls41.leidenuniv.nl
263 Darin Wayrynen darin@pcg.uucp
264 Marcel Waldvogel marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch
265 Stephen J. Walick steve@nshore.org
266 Gray Watson gray@antaire.com
267 David Watt dmwatt@smersh.cambridge.ma.us
268 Scott Weikart scott@igc.apc.org
269 Ivo Welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
270 Jochen Wiedmann zrawi01@zmcipdec1.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
271 Gijsb. Wiesenekker wiesenecker@sara.nl
272 Wietze van Winden wietze@swi.psy.uva.nl
273 Frank Wuebbeling wuebbel@math.uni-muenster.de
274 Larry W. Virden lwv26@cas.org
275 Bill Wohler wohler@sap-ag.de
276 Jamie Zawinski jwz@lucid.com
277 Christos Zoulas christos@deshaw.com
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