Acknowledgements

My thanks to the many people who have contributed to some aspect or other of mIRC's development over the years, whether through bug reports, suggestions, technical advice, or beta-testing, and the many others who have helped out on channels, or created helpful scripts, documentation, and web pages.

Thanks to...

Tjerk Vonck who created the first #mIRC channel, the mIRC homepage, and mIRC FAQ, and has contributed to mIRC in too many ways to mention.

The mIRC Beta-testers, past and present, for their hard work in catching bugs and suggesting features.

The Helpers on #mIRC and other IRC channels who help out new users day after day.

And to...

Andrzej Kowalik, for contributing his work on the toolbar icons.

Jarkko Oikarinen, creator of IRC, and the many people after him who have continued the development of IRC.

Kevin Day, for coding and contributing various routines.

Nicolas Pioch for his short IRC primer, Ramji, Bibbly, Stimps, Mike, James G., Edward, Bunster for the queen-size futons, Peeg for the *bonk*s over the head, and Viv :)

M. Hunnibell, M. Overtoom, Mark "Too Slick" Hanson, Ron R., and Dan Lawrence for their technical help.

Richard "Budman" Jones, who designed and contributed the logo.

And...

GIF support is based on the GIFLIB distribution by Eric S. Raymond.

JPEG support is based on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

Nullsoft for their -powered Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.

PNG support is based on the work of a variety of Authors and Group 42, Inc.

Regular expression support is based on the PCRE library package, open source software written by Philip Hazel and copyright by the University of Cambridge, England.

Zlib support is based on the work of Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.