Well, there are a lot of people to thank. XFolder is a fairly young piece
of software, but still so many people have sent in remarks and supported me.
You are too many to be mentioned here separately.
If you don't find your name in this list, please feel addressed
with this global thank you! Without all this support, XFolder wouldn't be
where it is today.
XFolder is free software. Some people have paid me in naturals anyways:
- Glauco Ippolitoni, Italy, for the Win95 keyboard
- Mark Mellin, USA, for IBM VisualAge C++ 3.0
I thank the following people for actively contributing to XFolder by sending in
code or doing translations:
- ARAKAWA Atsushi, Japan, for filling in the APM power-off code, Japanese NLS,
and finding bugs
- Duane A. Chamblee for supplying the BOOTMGR.CMD code
- Dominik Czechowski and Artur Flinta, Poland, for Polish NLS
- Christopher Faulhammer, Germany, for translating the "XFolder Internals" pages in
the documentation to German
- Tomas Hajny, Czech Republic, for Czech NLS and finding lots of
little mistakes in the sources
- Henk Kelder, Netherlands, developer of a whole buch of valuable OS/2 utilities
and uncrowned guru of OS/2 Extended Attributes, for code and help on
WPS INI entries and EAs; check
his homepage
for his software
- Roger Lindmark and Simon Grönlund, Sweden, for Swedish NLS, finding a lot of
mistakes in the documentation, and other useful hints
The following capable programmers have created software which helped
me a lot:
- Dennis Bareis, Australia, for his amazing PMPRINTF package.
XFolder wouldn't exist without it. Check out
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dbareis/,
where you'll also find tons of other developer's stuff.
- Klaus Staedtler, Germany, for maintaining all the CONFIG.SYS information
- Andrew Pavel Zabolotny for his very valuable HTML2IPF tool, with which
I created this online documentation. (I hate IPF.) He is also the developer of lxLite.
(No WWW address for this.)
- The development team of GIMP for Linux
the most impressive graphics package available,
and to those capable people who have made the
OS/2 version.
This is what I've created most graphics with.
The following people deserve a special thank you for reporting me problems and
incompatibilities
and giving useful hints for future versions (in alphabetical order):
- Carsten Arnold, Germany, for finding bugs in the source code
- Harvey Braun, Australia, for first detecting an embarassingly obvious installation bug
- John Buckley, UK, for the WPDrives suggestion and a better NEWOBJ.CMD
- James "Lithium" Church for the templates idea,
submitting Kris Kwilas' OS/2 wishlist, and testing for the hotkey bugs
- Yuri Dario, Italy, for sending me all that Win95 keys information
- Bjorn Fahler, Sweden, writer at
EDM/2, for lots of technical tips and
his very helpful programming columns
- Christian Gaarden, Denmark (I believe), for useful suggestions
- Diane Gardner, USA, for her very favorable reviews of XFolder in
the Land of Beyond,
useful suggestions and detailed bug reports
- Reinhard Giesen, Germany, for useful suggestions
- Marcus de Geus, Netherlands, for useful suggestions for the Netscape DDE Interface
- Jens Glathe, Germany, for technical information and you-know-what
- Torsten Balle Koefoed, Denmark, for detecting incompatibilities, bugs, and
making useful suggestions
- Gerhard Hahn, Austria, for the Clipboard suggestion
- Jim Hruska, USA (I believe), for detecting incompatibilities
- Kris Kwilas for his very thoughtful OS/2 wishlist about what needs to be improved
with OS/2
- Martin Lafaix, France, for finding errors and detailed tips and suggestions
about menus, notebooks, and other things
- Hauke Laging, Germany, for detecting incompatibilities, making LOTS of suggestions,
his OS/2 initiatives and bragging about his computer
- Christian Langanke, Germany: developer of "Animated Mouse Pointers for OS/2", the famous WPS enhancer
(check his homepage) for comprehensive
suggestions, technical tips, and continuing support
- Andreas Ludwig, Germany, for supplying many WPS class descriptions
- Macarlo, Brazil, benedictine monk and system analyst, for inspiring correspondence
- Eric Norman, Montana, USA, for finding bugs in the subfolder handling and "Snap to grid"
- Andrea Penna, Italy, for supplying the SmartSuite / NetscDDE trick.
- Michael Reinsch, Germany, for lots of detailed bug reports
- Larry Salomon, Jr., USA (I guess), writer at
EDM/2, for lots of helpful articles about PM
programming
- Andrea Scagni, Italy, for detailed bug reports
- Ralph Scharpf, Germany, for the video driver hints
- Bernd Schemmer, Germany, for detecting incompatibilies and for his fabulous
"Rexx Tips & Tricks" INF book
- Trevor Smith, former editor-in-chief of
OS/2 e-zine, for
support and the configurable reboot idea (they now also have a review of XFolder in
volume 3 issue 7)
- Thomas Unverzagt, Germany, for the "full path in title" idea
- Rich Walsh, USA, author of "Rwx" and "DragText", for help on some SOM internals
- Steve Wendt, USA, for advertising for XFolder on his valuable
"OS/2 Wishlist"
page and for useful suggestions
- Chris Wright of OS/2 e-zine for
pointing out potential problems with the GPL and for considering my point of view
- Stefan Zechmeister, Germany, for figuring out how to get Object Desktop 2.0
to work