6 Thanks

Many thanks to (in no special order):

• Peter Bechtold, peter@fns.greenie.muc.de, for sending me dozens of faxes to test mgetty, for calling me back numerous times after failed attempts to send him a fax with sendfax, …

  Further, for the idea to use the remote fax id as part of the filename on received faxes.

• Klaus Weidner, klaus@greenie.muc.de, for the original linux port, testing dozens of pre-releases, writing the original texinfo documentation, and finally for writing vgetty.
• Lawrence ’dreamer’ Chen, lawrence@combdyn.com, for the initial ISC port, and for testing the package with a SupraFAX-Modem.
• Kay Schulz, kschulz@gold.t-informatik.ba-stuttgart.de, for testing on ISC — and telling me that it’s possible to ask dozens of questions without having ever read the README file …
• Georg Edelmann, georg@alpha.saar.de, for testing on Linux, and finding some stupid bugs.
• Uwe S. Fuerst, uwe@phiger.com, for testing on SCO 3.2v4 (and helping me a lot nailing down the problem with dial-in/dial-out)
• Bodo Bauer, bodo@hal.nbg.sub.org, for porting mgetty to SVR4 (though he did quite confuse me by insisting that the fax receiver does not work …), and later, bodo@suse.de, for his faxrunqd daemon.
• Christoph Adomeit, for bugging me long enough to implement XON / XOFF flow control in fax sending / receiving, and for lending me one of his GVC modems long enough to make faxing (well, fax sending) work with it.
• Christopher M. Ward, for testing on SCO with another GVC modem.
• Ralf Stephan, for finding a problem in sendfax whith some modems that lower CD too soon.
• John C. Peterson, for correcting a similar problem in mgetty / faxrec.
• Chel van Gennip, for the pbmscale, g3toxwd and g3tolj programs.
• Glenn Thobe and Chris Lewis, for doing the 3B1 port(s).
• Chris Lewis, for doing all the /etc/gettdefs stuff, CallerID, space limiting, making the source look really awful (K&R C support), miscellaneous minor fixes, and tolerating my sometimes very unfriendly reactions to his suggestions.
• Caz Yokoyama, for his suggestions concerning faxspool and the mail-to-fax gateway
• Martin Husemann, for SVR4 testing (damn ESIX) and the NetBSD 386 port
• Michael A. Meiszl, mam@mamunx.werries.de, because he asked me to (*grin*) - and because he found + changed lots of small, nevertheless annoying things.
• Brent Mosbrook from ZyXEL USA, brentm@zyxel.com, who has been very helpful solving some ZyXEL-specific and generic fax questions.
• ELSA Computer GmbH, Germany, for giving me a number of test modems and being pretty suportive overall concering questions of modem firmware, protocol handling, and so on. A big thanks!
• Sam Leffler, sam@sgi.com, for many interesting discussions and insights.
• Christian Starkjohann, cs@ds1.kph.tuwien.ac.at, for important parts of the NeXT port.
• Geoffrey Collyer and Henry Spencer, for writing the newslock.c program I use in faxrunq.
• Simone “Neko” Demmel, for going to bed early, giving me time to proof read this manual and correct all the nasty bugs.
• Russel Nelson, nelson@crynwr.com, for hosting the mgetty mailing list since December ’96.
• Medat Computer GmbH, Munich, for using mgetty+sendfax and paying me for improvements (faxrunqd rewrite and lots of detail work).
• SpaceNet GmbH, Munich, for sponsoring IP connectivity for alpha.greenie.net. Should you ever need an Internet Service Provider in Germany, look at http://www.space.net/...
• Wiebke Baars, for being a really good friend, and for a number of wonderful days spent together.
• … and to all others who contributed in some way.

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