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File contents
Credits
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[Apologies to anyone left off this list - the response I have had from users
has been amazing. Thanks to anyone and everyone involved in this interminable
project !]

* Simon Burrows for supplying me with the Extend Virus module (and clearly
  marked as so, unlike certain other contacts I have :-) ). He also supplied
  me a couple of virus killers written by other people to mull over.

* Philip Colmer for spotting some lax code in V1.10 and making some useful
  improvement suggestions. Fil also substantially reworked V2.00 to produce
  V2.10/2.11 (not generally released) - please see the "History" file for
  further details.

* Hugo Fiennes for the ArchieVirus "Hypothermic" innoculator (but I could have
  worked it out for myself :-) ).

* Alan Glover for supplying me with the CeBit Virus module and an annotated
  disassembly of it too. He also passed Hypothermic, ArchieVirus and both
  strains of the Icon virus onto me.

* Pop Mobility Freak (Ian Ashley) for spotting the (now fixed) error in V1.10
  concerned with disabling the current selected filing system.

* Tor Houghton for noting that SCSI drives aren't recognised - just in the
  nick of time before I posted V1.20 :-) This prompted me to fix the missing
  RamFS parse too...

* Steve Turnbull for pointing out that most "unknown" FSs have a lower case
  filing system name, but an upper case SWI command set. I enhanced this by
  leaving the lowercase check in too and also checking for uppercase + "FS"
  (e.g. scsi -> SCSIFS).

* Graham Allan for pointing out that if the V1.20 VKiller dialogue box is moved
  and then closed/re-opened, it re-appears back in its original position. He
  also suggested that the buttons in the dialogue box should follow Acorn's
  guidelines more closely.

* Douglas Potter for noticing that the "netprint" module was missing from the
  'uninfectable' filing system modules. His other fixes had already been
  implemented before he wrote to me :-)

* Gordon Sinclair, for a copy of the Vigay Virus BASIC program and its
  associated !Boot file. Also thanks to William Davis, who also informed me
  of the Vigay Virus.

* Martin Avison for supplying the much-needed FNgettaskhand(taskname$) routine
  (not sure about its stability though on anything other than RISC OS 2.00 !).

* Stuart Tyrell for supplying me with the Icon virus (plus an early version of
  !KillVirus...).

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00000850  74 68 65 20 56 69 67 61  79 20 56 69 72 75 73 2e  |the Vigay Virus.|
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00000900  0a 2a 20 53 74 75 61 72  74 20 54 79 72 65 6c 6c  |.* Stuart Tyrell|
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00000940  61 72 6c 79 20 76 65 72  73 69 6f 6e 20 6f 66 0a  |arly version of.|
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00000960  2e 0a                                             |..|
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