gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly <gzip@gnu.org>, with portions
written by Mark Adler (inflate.c), Peter Jannesen (unlzw.c) and
Haruhiko Okumura (unlzh.c). The zip deflate format was defined by Phil Katz.
Thanks to those who reported problems and suggested various
improvements. Here is a partial list of them:
Robert Abramovitz bromo@cougar.tandem.com
Jay Adams jka@ece.cmu.edu
Mark Adler madler@cco.caltech.edu
Edwin Allum edwin@csri.toronto.edu
Joseph Arceneaux jla@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Tim Auckland tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk
Ken-ichiro Aoki aoki@madonna.physics.ucla.edu
David Ascher da@marlowe.cog.brown.edu
Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
Becky A. Badgett badgett@cs.utexas.edu
Bo Nygaard Bai bai@iesd.auc.dk
Dave Barber dbarber@apocalypse.bbn.com
Rene Beaulieu reneb@distri.hydro.qc.ca
Neal Becker neal@ctd.comsat.com
Dieter Becker becker@med-in.uni-sb.de
Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@geronimo.math.utah.edu
Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.rain.com
David J. N. Begley dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Bob Beresh rberesh@rd.hydro.on.ca
Jim Bernard jbernard@iola.mines.colorado.edu
Karl Berry karl@cs.umb.edu
James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com
Scott Bolte scott@craycos.com
Wayne E. Bouchard web@paladine.hacks.arizona.edu
Marc Boucher marc@cam.org
Ola Brahammar pt90ob@pt.hk-r.se
Dave Brennan brennan@hal.com
Alan Brown dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz
Michael L. Brown brown@wi.extrel.com
Rodney Brown rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
Bruce bde@runx.oz.au
Bill Bumgarner bbum@stone.com
Leila Burrell-Davis leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk
Roger Butenuth butenuth@ira.uka.de
Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu
Bud Carlson bud@isle.pegasus.com
Lim Fung Chai fclim@i1sin.daq.semi.harris.com
Wes Chalfant wes@kofax.com
Andrew A. Chernov ache@astral.msk.su
Paul Close pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Jeff Coffler coffler@jac.enet.dec.com
Will Colley wcc3@occs.cs.oberlin.edu
Roger Cornelius sherpa!rac@uunet.uu.net
Kevin Cosgrove kevinc@tekig6.pen.tek.com
Stephen J Cowley s.j.cowley@amtp.cam.ac.uk
Ron Cox roncox@indirect.com
Frank Crawford frank@photon.ansto.gov.au
James R. Crawford qralston@cislabs.pitt.edu
Lawrence Crowl crowl@research.cs.orst.edu
Klaus Dahlenburg kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de
William E Davidsen davidsen@ariel.crd.ge.com
John M. DeDourek dedourek@aixive2.cs.unb.ca
Jeff Deifik jdeifik@isi.edu
Vince DeMarco vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca
Michael De La Rue p91152@cplab.physics.edinburgh.ac.uk
Jeff Delinck delinck@pa621a.inland.com
John DeRoo deroo@grout.adv.shr.dec.com
Jim Diamond zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca
Stefano Diomedi sd@teculx.tecsiel.it
Lawrence R. Dodd dodd@roebling.poly.edu
Matthew Donadio donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu
Andy Dougherty andy@crystal.phys.lafayette.edu
Darrell Duane dduane@mason1.gmu.edu
John Eaton jwe@che.utexas.edu
Will Edgington wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
Brian Edmonds edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca
Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Enami enami@sys.ptg.sony.co.jp
Kristoffer Eriksson ske@pkmab.se
Daniel Eriksson m91der@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
Denis Excoffier 3.1416@free.fr
Rik Faith faith@cs.unc.edu
Larry Fahnoe fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org
Cristian Ferretti cfs@poincare.mat.puc.cl
Karl-Jose Filler pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de
Valery Fine fine@vxcern.cern.ch
Bob Fischer bobf@milne.geology.yale.edu
Per Foreby perf@efd.lth.se
Alexander Fraser alex@cs.umb.edu
Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@iphase.com
Gerhard Friesland-Koepke frieslan@rzdspc3.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Andy Fyfe andy@scp.caltech.edu
Geoff geoff@frs.faxon.com
Arnd Gerns gerns@informatik.uni-hildesheim.de
Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@staccato.rutgers.edu
Torbjorn Granlund tege@sics.se
Carl Greco cgreco@parrot.creighton.edu
Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Junio Hamano junio@shadow.twinsun.com
Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche@ams.sunysb.edu
Darrel R. Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
Mark Hanning-Lee markhl@romeo.caltech.edu
Lars Hecking st000002@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
Aki Helin aki.helin@iki.fi
Ruediger Helsch ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
Mark C. Henderson mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca
Karl Heuer karl@kelp.boston.ma.us
Jarkko Hietaniemi jhi@dol-guldur.hut.fi
Thomas Hiller hiller@fzi.de
Eiji Hirai hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu
Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjetilho@ifi.uio.no
Robert D. Houk rdh@sli.com
Jim Howard jim_howard@mentorg.com
Preston Hunt gt5708a@prism.gatech.edu
Shane C Hutchins sch@nymph.msel.unh.edu
Hutch hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil
Lester Ingber ingber@alumni.caltech.edu
Ken Ishii ishii@sni-usa.com
Per Steinar Iversen iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
Chris Jacobsen jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu
Michal Jaegermann ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
Brian Jones brianj@skat.usc.edu
Denny de Jonge witaddj@dutrex.tudelft.nl
Arne H. Juul arnej@lise.unit.no
Dana Jacobsen jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov
Peter Jannesen peter@ncs.nl
Sverre Jarp
Brian D. Johnston johnstonb@med.ge.com
Walter W. Jones wwj@candela.cfr.nist.gov
Tom Judson judson@scf.usc.edu
Henry G. Juengst juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de
Sarantos Kapidakis sarantos%manteion@ics.forth.gr
Amir J. Katz amir@matis.ingr.com
Steve Kelem kelem@castor.xilinx.com
Steven Kimball kimball@shrew.sanders.lockheed.com
Randy Kirchhof rkk@posms.aus.tx.us
Ned Kittlitz kittlitz@seagoon.sw.stratus.com
Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@mtl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Philip C Kizer pckizer@gonzo.tamu.edu
Pete Klammer pklammer@ouray.denver.colorado.edu
Fritz Kleemann kleemann@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
Wilhelm B. Kloke wb@ifado.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de
Tom Kloos tk@sequent.com
Carsten Koch carsten.koch@icem.de
Winfried Koenig win@in.rhein-main.de
Mathias Koerber mathias@solomon.technet.sg
Steph Konigsdorfer s.konigsdorfer@frmy.bull.fr
Leif Kornstaedt leif@rumtifsl.ruessel.sub.org
Michael D. Lawler mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Kevin Layer layer@franz.com
Howard D. Leadmon howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org
Alexander Lehmann alex@hal.rhein-main.de
Simon Leinen simon@lia.di.epfl.ch
Burt Leland burt@molecular.com
Tony Leneis tony@plaza.adp.ds.com
Hugues Leroy hugues.leroy@irisa.fr
Marty Leisner leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
Charles Levert charles@aramis.comm.polymtl.ca
Richard Levitte levitte@e.kth.se
Torbj|rn Lindh toobii@elixir.e.kth.se
David R. Linn drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Antonio Lioy cat@athena.polito.it
Jamie Lokier u90jl@ecs.oxford.ac.uk
Richard Lloyd R.K.Lloyd@csc.liv.ac.uk
David J. MacKenzie djm@eng.umd.edu
John R MacMillan john@chance.gts.org
Ron Male male@eso.mc.xerox.com
Don R. Maszle maze@bea.lbl.gov
Jaye Mathisen osyjm@cs.montana.edu
Telly Mavroidis mavroidi@acf2.nyu.edu
Imed Eddine Mbarki mbarki@pacific.cmpe.psu.edu
Steeve McCauley steeve@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca
Tom McConnell tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
Tod McQuillin mcquill@ccit05.duq.edu
Tye McQueen tye@spillman.com
Bernd Melchers melchers@chemie.fu-berlin.de
Jason Merrill jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
Dean S. Messing deanm@medulla.labs.tek.com
M. Mesturino mesturino@cselt.stet.it
Luke Mewburn zak@rmit.edu.au
Jim Meyering meyering@cs.utexas.edu
Dragan Milicic milicic@math.utah.edu
Frederic Miserey none.fred@applelink.apple.com
Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Soren Juul Moller sjm@dde.dk
Chris Moore moore@src.bae.co.uk
Dan Mosedale mosedale@genome.stanford.edu
Helmut Muelner hmuelner@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at
Urban D Mueller umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Ulrich Mueller ulm@vsnhdb.cern.ch
Timothy Murphy tim@maths.tcd.ie
Greg Naber greg@squally.halcyon.com
Jay Nayegandhi jayng@bbiv02.enet.dec.com
Paul K. Neville II pkn2@idsi.com
Karl L. Noell noell@informatik.fh-wiesbaden.dbp.de
Demizu Noritoshi nori-d@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
Todd Ogasawara todd@protege.pegasus.com
Helge Oldach helge.oldach@stollmann.de
Arthur David Olson ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov
Piet van Oostrum piet@cs.ruu.nl
Rafael R. Pappalardo rafapa@obelix.cica.es
Mike Pearlman canuck@masc38.rice.edu
Jörg-Volker Peetz peetz@dynato-kyma.net
Yves Perrenoud pyves@nuga.alphanet.ch
Hal Peterson hrp@pecan.cray.com
Pascal Petit petit@cadillac.ibp.fr
Bruno Pillard bp@chorus.fr
Franc,ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
Jay Pinkos pinkos@butyng.bu.edu
Petr Písař petr.pisar@atlas.cz
Thomas Plass thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Mike Polo mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
Francesco Potorti pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
Will Priest bpriest@lobby.ti.com
David Purves purves@apogee.com
Andreas Raab ar@nvmr.robin.de
Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com
Klaus Reimann kr@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Michael Rendell michael@mercury.cs.mun.ca
Hal Render render@massive.uccs.edu
Julian F. Reschke julian@math.uni-muenster.de
Phil Richards Phil.Richards@prg.oxford.ac.uk
Roland B Roberts roberts@nsrl31.nsrl.rochester.edu
Arnold Robbins arnold@cc.gatech.edu
Kevin Rodgers kevin@rolling-stone.den.mmc.com
Kai Uwe Rommel rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Paul Rubin phr@america.telebit.com
Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang@wsrcc.com
Jonathan Ryshpan jon@amito.hitachi.com
Paul A Sand pas@unh.edu
Tony Sanders sanders@bsdi.com
Mike Sangrey mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Niimi Satoshi a01309@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Marc Schaefer sysadm@alphanet.ch
Andreas Schwab schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Eric Schenk schenk@cs.toronto.edu
Eric P. Scott eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Olaf Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl
Sunando Sen sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
Harry Shamansky hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu
Amos Shapira amoss@cs.huji.ac.il
Rick Sladkey jrs@world.std.com
Daniel L Smith dls@autodesk.com
Fred Smith fredex%fcshome@merk.merk.com
Ripduman Sohan Ripduman.Sohan@cl.cam.ac.uk
Stephen Soliday soliday@ncat.edu
Paul Southworth pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
Rob Spencer robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
Richard Stallman rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Carsten Steger carsten.steger@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
David Sundstrom sunds@anon.asic.sc.ti.com
Ed Sznyter ews@babel.babel.com
Hideaki Tanabe arctanx@iyeyasu.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Andrew Telford ajt@peregrin.resmel.bhp.com.au
Glenn E. Thobe thobe@getunx.info.com
Kei Thomsen kt@keihh.hanse.de
Karsten Thygesen karthy@dannug.dk
Mark Towfiq towfiq@microdyne.com
Jeff Treece treece@sabbagh.com
Oliver Trepte oliver@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se
Stephane Tsacas slt@is21.isoft.fr
Stephen Tweedie sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
John R. Vanderpool fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Sotiris Vassilopoulos vassilopoulos@virginia.edu
Pedro A. M. Vazquez vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br
Arjan de Vet devet@win.tue.nl
Larry W. Virden lvirden@cas.org
Vadim V. Vlasov vvlasov@inucres.msk.su
Eduard Vopicka eduard.vopicka@vse.cs
Theo Vosse vosse@ruls41.leidenuniv.nl
Darin Wayrynen darin@pcg.uucp
Marcel Waldvogel marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch
Stephen J. Walick steve@nshore.org
Gray Watson gray@antaire.com
David Watt dmwatt@smersh.cambridge.ma.us
Scott Weikart scott@igc.apc.org
Ivo Welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
Jochen Wiedmann zrawi01@zmcipdec1.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Gijsb. Wiesenekker wiesenecker@sara.nl
Wietze van Winden wietze@swi.psy.uva.nl
Frank Wuebbeling wuebbel@math.uni-muenster.de
Larry W. Virden lwv26@cas.org
Bill Wohler wohler@sap-ag.de
Jamie Zawinski jwz@lucid.com
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