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+Past and present authors of ntfs-3g in alphabetical order are:
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+Anton Altaparmakov 
+Mario Emmenlauer
+Yuval Fledel
+Yura Pakhuchiy 
+Richard Russon 
+Szabolcs Szakacsits 
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+This file is replaced during releases by the output of 'cvs2cl.pl --no-wrap -S'.
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+Project news are at http://www.ntfs-3g.org
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+Release notes are maintained at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/releases.html
+