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Thanks go to the following people for help with information and
proof reading of the document.
Scot W Stevenson for the original X terminal mini-howto document,
from 1995, on which some of the material for the section on advanced
xdm-config configurations was obtained.
Members of the Northants LUG, UK for proof reading the document.
The writers of the XDM, Xserver man pages and the default XDM scripts.
- Credits for 0.05
Everyone who commented on the earlier versions, including Neil Zanella,
Rafael Herrera, Paul Hornshaw, Clive Jones, Robert de Geus, Alex Schenkman,
Richard Kaszeta, Malcolm Herbet
- Credits for 1.00
The following people provided feedback and comments which have led up to
the 1.00 release: Alan James, Stephen Eglen, Malcolm Hunter, Holgar Hoffman,
Patrick Rynhart, Amedeo Lanza, Alexander Skopalik, Mike Banahan.
Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without
your submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. Please
send your additions, comments and criticisms to the following
email address: <xdm-mini@northants.lug.org.uk>.
I probably ought to mention some details about the following at
some point ...
