1Vern had the following things to say: 2 3Many thanks to the 2.5 beta-testers for finding bugs and helping test and 4increase portability: Stan Adermann, Scott David Daniels, Charles Elliott, 5Joe Gayda, Chris Meier, James Nordby, Terrence O'Kane, Karsten Pahnke, 6Francois Pinard, Pat Rankin, Andreas Scherer, Marc Wiese, Nathan Zelle. 7 8Thanks to the many flex beta-testers, feedbackers, and contributors, 9especially Francois Pinard, Casey Leedom, Robert Abramovitz, Stan 10Adermann, Terry Allen, David Barker-Plummer, John Basrai, Neal Becker, 11Nelson H.F. Beebe, benson@odi.com, Karl Berry, Peter A. Bigot, Simon 12Blanchard, Keith Bostic, Frederic Brehm, Ian Brockbank, Kin Cho, Nick 13Christopher, Brian Clapper, J.T. Conklin, Jason Coughlin, Bill Cox, 14Nick Cropper, Dave Curtis, Scott David Daniels, Chris G. Demetriou, 15Theo Deraadt, Mike Donahue, Chuck Doucette, Tom Epperly, Leo Eskin, 16Chris Faylor, Chris Flatters, Jon Forrest, Jeffrey Friedl, Joe Gayda, 17Kaveh R. Ghazi, Wolfgang Glunz, Eric Goldman, Christopher M. Gould, 18Ulrich Grepel, Peer Griebel, Jan Hajic, Charles Hemphill, NORO Hideo, 19Jarkko Hietaniemi, Scott Hofmann, Jeff Honig, Dana Hudes, Eric Hughes, 20John Interrante, Ceriel Jacobs, Michal Jaegermann, Sakari Jalovaara, 21Jeffrey R. Jones, Henry Juengst, Klaus Kaempf, Jonathan I. Kamens, 22Terrence O Kane, Amir Katz, ken@ken.hilco.com, Kevin B. Kenny, Steve 23Kirsch, Winfried Koenig, Marq Kole, Ronald Lamprecht, Greg Lee, Rohan 24Lenard, Craig Leres, John Levine, Steve Liddle, David Loffredo, Mike 25Long, Mohamed el Lozy, Brian Madsen, Malte, Joe Marshall, Bengt 26Martensson, Chris Metcalf, Luke Mewburn, Jim Meyering, R. Alexander 27Milowski, Erik Naggum, G.T. Nicol, Landon Noll, James Nordby, Marc 28Nozell, Richard Ohnemus, Karsten Pahnke, Sven Panne, Roland Pesch, 29Walter Pelissero, Gaumond Pierre, Esmond Pitt, Jef Poskanzer, Joe 30Rahmeh, Jarmo Raiha, Frederic Raimbault, Pat Rankin, Rick Richardson, 31Kevin Rodgers, Kai Uwe Rommel, Jim Roskind, Alberto Santini, Andreas 32Scherer, Darrell Schiebel, Raf Schietekat, Doug Schmidt, Philippe 33Schnoebelen, Andreas Schwab, Larry Schwimmer, Alex Siegel, Eckehard 34Stolz, Jan-Erik Strvmquist, Mike Stump, Paul Stuart, Dave Tallman, Ian 35Lance Taylor, Chris Thewalt, Richard M. Timoney, Jodi Tsai, Paul 36Tuinenga, Gary Weik, Frank Whaley, Gerhard Wilhelms, Kent Williams, 37Ken Yap, Ron Zellar, Nathan Zelle, David Zuhn, and those whose names 38have slipped my marginal mail-archiving skills but whose contributions 39are appreciated all the same. 40 41Thanks to Keith Bostic, Jon Forrest, Noah Friedman, 42John Gilmore, Craig Leres, John Levine, Bob Mulcahy, G.T. 43Nicol, Francois Pinard, Rich Salz, and Richard Stallman for help with various 44distribution headaches. 45 46Thanks to Esmond Pitt and Earle Horton for 8-bit character support; to 47Benson Margulies and Fred Burke for C++ support; to Kent Williams and Tom 48Epperly for C++ class support; to Ove Ewerlid for support of NUL's; and to 49Eric Hughes for support of multiple buffers. 50 51This work was primarily done when I was with the Real Time Systems Group 52at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. Many thanks to all there 53for the support I received. 54