Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I would like to thank Kem Tekinay. Kem spent hours and hours with me, tracking down bugs, making endless suggestions, finding more bugs, and making more suggestions. Without Kem, ZipIt would probably be a Mac XL in a world of Quadra 640AVs. Not only that, but it wouldn’t even run. Heck, he even redesigned my user database. I really appreciate everything that Kem’s done. Thanks, Kem!

Next, Nick Sklavounakis deserves special thanks. It was he who suggested many of the finishing touches that make ZipIt work. In addition, he was very helpful to me in allowing people to obtain ZipIt from his BBS, Not Even Odd. Nick allowed me to use his BBS both to distribute beta copies of ZipIt to testers, and final copies over FidoNet and the Internet. I’d also like to thank Sheppard Gordon, who extensively tested ZipIt and offered numerous bug reports and suggestions.

Thanks to all the beta testers for helping me squash nasty bugs throughout all stages of ZipIt’s development. Special thanks to Nick Zitzmann, Maury Markowitz, Michael Masterson, Eduard Schwan, Randy Brown, William Pegues, Derek Chee, Adam Gordon,  Kendall Bullen, and Paul Gilmartin. Thanks to Peter Stoller, not only for being a great beta tester, but for editing this manual as well. Thanks to Jon Schull for allowing me to be a part of SoftLock Services.

Special appreciation goes to Bill Goodman, who came up with the perfect interface for any compression-type program.

There are five more important people whom I’d like to thank. Without Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly, Kai Uwe Rommel, and Igor Mandrichenko, ZipIt would never, ever have been possible. They wrote the portable code for Zip version 1.0 and 1.92 that form the core of ZipIt. I would especially like to thank Jean-loup Gailly for all the help and suggestions he gave me, and for his permission to use his code in ZipIt.

Thanks to Samuel H. Smith, and those who ported his program to the Atari ST and Peter Maika for porting it to the Macintosh. I used this code as the basis for ZipIt’s unzipping ability. I’d especially like to thank Peter Maika for his permission to use his unzipping code as the core of ZipIt’s ability to unzip files.

Finally, I am indebted to all the registered ZipIt users out there. You are the ones who made it worthwhile to continue supporting and improving ZipIt. As long as you are still there, ZipIt will continue to be improved. Thanks also for the many valuable suggestions you’ve made. I’m only sorry I wasn’t able to include all of them in this release. Keep those comments coming!