Acknowledgements

This CD is a collection of work by a cast of thousands, and I'd like to thank some of them here:

• Netscape Communications Corporation for their permission to use Netscape Navigator as the central means of navigating around the contents of this CD.

• Our sponsors: VNU Business Media Europe and ROCC whose financial support has enabled me to produce this CD-ROM at this low price. Give them a big thank you!, since without their support, you wouldn't be reading this today.

• Info-ZIP, whose compression utilities UNZIP.EXE and UNZIP32.EXE are used to read ZIP files from this CD.

• The Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and the Linux Documentation Project, under whose licenses the Linux distribution on this CD is brought to you.

• Garth Glynn and Dan Simpson of the University of Brighton for their help in arranging sponsorship and generally smoothing the way.

• Morwen Glynn of the University of Brighton, who despatched over 15,000 copies of BURKS 5 last year (and had very little time left to do anything else as a result!).

• The many helpful people who have assisted, supported, and generally cheered on this project, including:

  Abraham Agay, Roger Boyle, Janet Carter, Fintan Culwin, Benedict Faria, Mike Feldman, Sally Fincher, Jon Dron, Jackie Harbor, Tony Jenkins, Peter Knaggs, K.V.Melvin, Cuno Pfister, Frances van Scoy, Mike Smith, John Taylor, Pat Terry and Ian Utting.

• The authors of the various documents on this CD who have kindly granted me permission to redistribute their work here:

  Anthony Aaby, Colin Allen, Brad Appleton, R.E. den Braasem, Frank Brokken, Thomas Boutell, Paul Brna, Chris Burke, Tom Christiansen, Marshall Cline, Fintan Culwin, Andrew Cumming, Rowan Davies, Steve Dekorte, Gordon Dodrill, Mark-Jason Dominus, Bruce Eckel, Mark Emmer, Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet, Gavin Estey, Gordon Fecyk, Eric Foster-Johnson, Jim Frost, Jean-loup Gailly, Adele Goldberg, John Grieggs, Ralph Griswold, David Hanson, David Harley, Bob Hathaway, Jan Haugland, Jeffrey Hobbs, Denis Howe, Graham Hutton, Randall Hyde, John Hynd, Mark Kantrowitz, Ted Jensen, Ian Joyner, Magnus Kempe, Mumit Khan, Jak Kirman, Thomas Kistler, Peter Knaggs, Stefan Koch, Peter van der Linden, Corey Liss, Arnim Littek, Ken Lunn, Robin Mabry, Vikas Malik, John McCarthy, Rod van Meter, Bertrand Meyer, Peter Millard, Mark Moraes, Michel Olagnon, John Ousterhout, Jocelyn Paine, John Peterson, Cuno Pfister, Ken Polsson, Dave Raggett, Ross Richardson, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Perry Rovers, Guido van Rossum, Lakshmi Sastry, John Savill, Pieter Schoenmakers, Peter Sestoft, Andrew Shalit, Nik Silver, Dorai Sitaram, Paul Spandler, Steve Summit, Rick Sutcliffe, Conrad Taylor, Brad Templeton, Pat Terry, Larry Virden, Juan Manuel Vuletich, Larry Wall, Brent Welch, George Wenzel, David Wheeler, Niklaus Wirth and Tatu Ylonen.

  (and if I've forgotten anyone, my profound apologies).

• The many other authors who have generously released their work and allowed its free redistribution.

I also welcome any feedback which would help me improve future editions of this CD. If you have any comments or suggestions to make, you can either email them to me at je@brighton.ac.uk or use the online feedback form.