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       ftp://ftp.info‐zip.org/pub/infozip/ .

AUTHORS
       The primary Info‐ZIP authors (current semi‐active members  of  the  Zip‐
       Bugs  workgroup) are:  Ed Gordon (Zip, general maintenance, shared code,
       Zip64, Win32, Unix, Unicode); Christian Spieler (UnZip maintenance coor‐
       dination, VMS, MS‐DOS, Win32, shared code, general Zip and  UnZip  inte‐
       gration and optimization); Onno van der Linden (Zip); Mike White (Win32,
       Windows  GUI,  Windows  DLLs);  Kai  Uwe Rommel (OS/2, Win32); Steven M.
       Schweda (VMS, Unix, support  of  new  features);  Paul  Kienitz  (Amiga,
       Win32,  Unicode);  Chris  Herborth  (BeOS,  QNX, Atari); Jonathan Hudson
       (SMS/QDOS); Sergio Monesi (Acorn RISC OS); Harald Denker  (Atari,  MVS);
       John  Bush  (Solaris, Amiga); Hunter Goatley (VMS, Info‐ZIP Site mainte‐
       nance); Steve Salisbury (Win32); Steve Miller (Windows CE  GUI),  Johnny
       Lee (MS‐DOS, Win32, Zip64); and Dave Smith (Tandem NSK).

       The  following  people  were  former members of the Info‐ZIP development
       group and provided major contributions to key parts of the current code:
       Greg ‘‘Cave Newt’’ Roelofs (UnZip,  unshrink  decompression);  Jean‐loup
       Gailly  (deflate  compression);  Mark Adler (inflate decompression, fUn‐
       Zip).

       The author of the original unzip code upon which Info‐ZIP’s was based is
       Samuel H. Smith; Carl Mascott did the first  Unix  port;  and  David  P.
       Kirschbaum  organized  and led Info‐ZIP in its early days with Keith Pe‐
       tersen hosting the original mailing list  at  WSMR‐SimTel20.   The  full
       list of contributors to UnZip has grown quite large; please refer to the
       CONTRIBS file in the UnZip source distribution for a relatively complete
       version.

VERSIONS
       v1.2   15 Mar 89   Samuel H. Smith
       v2.0    9 Sep 89   Samuel H. Smith
       v2.x   fall 1989   many Usenet contributors
       v3.0    1 May 90   Info‐ZIP (DPK, consolidator)
       v3.1   15 Aug 90   Info‐ZIP (DPK, consolidator)
       v4.0    1 Dec 90   Info‐ZIP (GRR, maintainer)
       v4.1   12 May 91   Info‐ZIP
       v4.2   20 Mar 92   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.0   21 Aug 92   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.01  15 Jan 93   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.1    7 Feb 94   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.11   2 Aug 94   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.12  28 Aug 94   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.2   30 Apr 96   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.3   22 Apr 97   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.31  31 May 97   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.32   3 Nov 97   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.4   28 Nov 98   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.41  16 Apr 00   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.42  14 Jan 01   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.5   17 Feb 02   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.51  22 May 04   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.52  28 Feb 05   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v6.0   20 Apr 09   Info‐ZIP (Zip‐Bugs subgroup, SPC)

Info‐ZIP                      20 April 2009 (v6.0)                     UNZIP(1)
Title: UNZIP: Authors, Contributors, and Version History
Summary
This section lists the current and former primary authors and contributors to the Info-ZIP project, highlighting their specific areas of contribution. It also acknowledges the original author of the unzip code, the first Unix port, and the early organizers of Info-ZIP. Furthermore, a detailed version history of UnZip is provided, starting from v1.2 in 1989 up to v6.0 in 2009, indicating the Info-ZIP subgroup responsible for each release.