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* [ES] implemented concatenation of quoted strings and numerical expressions
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* [ES] some X font configurations could make Grace crash (rep. #1436)
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* [ES] DEFAULT ... commands had no effect on new drawing objects (including
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* [ES] DEFAULT CHAR SIZE had no effect on tick labels of new axes
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* [ES] changed default resolution of the PDF driver to 300 dpi
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<H3>Documentation/Info</H3>
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* [ES] minor documentation updates, including rep. #1421
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* [ES] with page fill disabled, the page frame line might be drawn with
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* [ES] due to a bug in the Xbae widget, when a TrueType font was used,
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several dialogs could become unusable (including rep. #1366)
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* [ES] enabling patterned fills and PDF-1.4 compatibility mode could result
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in crash when printing to PDF
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* [ES] set scrolling of the custom ticks/labels table to 1 row per
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<H3>Documentation/Info</H3>
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* [ES] updates relevant to the status of mailing lists/forums
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<H3>Portability/Compilation</H3>
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* [ES] PDF driver updated to work with PDFlib-6 (rep. #1426). Minimal
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supported version is now 5.0
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* [ES] added option to generate PDF-1.4 format (Acrobat5). Support for
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PDF-1.2 (Acrobat3) removed
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* [ES] replaced meaningless error message issued when trying to load data
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with a few string columns as a single set
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* [ES] in the spreadsheet editor, the last entered cell's data wasn't
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committed (rep. #1420)
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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* [ES] increased max number of custom tick marks/labels to 256 per a
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<H3>Project files</H3>
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* [ES] now using one-line format for saving graph's world and viewport
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* [ES] changed default external help viewer to mozilla
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<H3>Documentation/Info</H3>
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* [ES] misc documentation updates (including rep. #1411)
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* [ES] fixed crash when number of custom tick marks/labels exceeded 100
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* [ES] fixed evaluation of FWHM in "Feature extraction" (old version
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might produce wrong results for multi-peak data)
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* [ES] support for loadable functions of 4 and 5 parameters, introduced
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in 5.1.14, was incomplete
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* [ES] in correlation/covariance, only the absolute value at 0 is
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normalized to 1, so for anti-correlation the sign is preserved
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* [ES] use multiplication sign in formulae of regression report (rep.
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* [ES] allow for DL modules to define functions of 4 and 5 parameters
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<H3>Portability/Compilation</H3>
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* [ES] fixed compilation under FreeBSD-5.1 and OS/X (rep. #1371)
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* [ES] on 64-bit platforms, when specific compiler/optimization
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combinations were used, some dialogs could crash randomly
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* [ES] on 64-bit platforms, when specific compiler/optimization
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combinations were used, X run-time warnings could be issued
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about unrecognized XKeySym's
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* [ES] set filling defaulted to even-odd filling rule in the X11
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* [ES] fixed potential memory corruption
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* [ES] fixed page size sync in the free mode
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* [TO] fixed a race condition in the grace_np library
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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* [ES] enabled annotated values for HILO sets
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* [ES] added IMIN(x) and IMAX(x) functions returning index of minimal or
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maximal value of array x (thusly providing a way to solve reps. #1340
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<H3>Portability/Compilation</H3>
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* [ES] updates for T1lib-5.0 API (rep. #1303)
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<H3>Documentation/Info</H3>
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* [WB] documented commands for calculating running properties
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* [MD] enabled font kerning in the MIF driver
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* [ES] Grace might fail starting in the GUI mode when a certain
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sequence of command line arguments was passed
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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* [MO] implemented zooming and scrolling of log plots
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* [ES] added INT(x,y) evaluating integral value of y dx
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* [ES] added RSUM(vexpr) - running sum
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* [ES] fixed memory corruption when reading in block data (rep. #1258). The
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bug was introduced in 5.1.11
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* [ES] fixed a couple of tiny memory leaks associated with loading block
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* [ES] fixed crash in histogram and interpolation dialogs with multiple sets
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selected (rep. #1259)
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* [TO] signal issues with the grace_np library fixed (rep. #1270)
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* [ES] implied references to current graph in parser might crash Grace if
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the graph didn't exist (including reps. #886 and #1267)
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* [ES] removed extraneous accent glyphs in the 0x9? range of IsoLatin1 and
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IsoLatin2 encodings (including rep. #1269)
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* [MO] IsoLatin7 encoding file wasn't installed by "make install"
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* [ES] entering negative values of set symbol skip could crash Grace
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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* [ES] hotlinks now work for all set types (rep. #572)
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* [ES] updating hot-linked sets now works for all graphs, not the current
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* [YZ] added encoding files for Russian codepages koi8-r and cp1251 and for
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Ukrainian codepage koi8-u
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* [ES] use "+"/"-" instead of "shown"/"hidden" in the graph selectors
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* [ES] added UPDATEALL command, equivalent of "View/Update all"
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* [ES] set resolution in the PNG output (rep. #1225)
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<H3>Portability/Compilation</H3>
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* [ES] updated auto* stuff to work with autoconf-2.5.* (rep. #1199)
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* [SR] precision used for special tick locations was insufficient
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* [ES] referring to "S_" in the parser with no sets in the current project
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* [ES] GraceIsOpen() from the grace_np library returned true after the Grace
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process exited (rep. #922)
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* [ES] excluded .cvsignore files from source tarballs (rep. #1248)
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* [ES] a minor memory leak fixed (40 bytes per set import/reading in)
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* [ES] configure --with=f77=/absolute/path/to/f77 was broken (rep. #1243)
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* [ES] in XY charts, explicitly check that abscissas of all sets are the same
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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* [MO] added IsoLatin7 encoding file
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* [ES] disable showing hidden files in file selection dialogs by default
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and added a checkbox to alter this behaviour (Motif-2.* only)
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* [ES] in the spreadsheet dataset editor, set text insertion position
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corresponding to the mouse click location
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* [ES] changed default data format to %.8g (rep. #985)
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* [ES] the default GRACE_HELPVIEWER command was incompatible with Mozilla
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* [ES] fonts with long names (> 27 chars) could crash Grace (rep. #1200)
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* [ES] font antialiasing was broken for projects with more than 16 default
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* [ES] fonttool might crash on fonts with an invalid FontBBox entry
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* [ES] some font glyphs might not fit in the fonttool matrix cells,
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especially on low-resolution displays
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* [ES] canvas wasn't refreshed after a region started to be re-defined
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* [ES] provided workaround for a PDFlib bug, resulting, in rare cases,
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in wrong colorspace settings in the PDF output (rep. #1209)
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* [MD] implemented patterned fills in the SVG driver
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* [MD] better font name definitions in the SVG driver
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* [MD] updated SVG DTD reference
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* [PB] installed binary of convcal now gets stripped
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* [PB] "make install links" now works
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* [PB] DESTDIR introduced for building binary packages (e.g.
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"make DESTDIR=/tmp install links")
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* [SR] -(no)safe flags were missed in the -help output
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* [ES] some standard Xt flags (-geometry etc) were ignored (the bug was
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* [MD] patterned fills were transparent in the PDF output
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* [MD] font family might be set inconsistently in the MIF driver
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* [ES] xmgrace was run in the safe mode when invoked from GraceOpen() via
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the grace_np interface (rep. #1179)
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* [ES] fixed 1/n error in calculation of correlation coefficient in the
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non-linear fit (the value was used for information purposes only).
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The bug was introduced in 5.1.5
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* [ES] redrawing canvas in the free mode might in some cases result in
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modified graph viewport values (rep. #1176)
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* [ES] allow trailing semicolon in the batch language (rep. #1193)
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* [ES] some fonts couldn't be opened when running under NT4 (rep. #1186).
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This was a T1lib bug, in fact
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* [ES] the cross-covariance was wrongly calculated (rep. #1196)
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* [ES] implemented (and enabled by default) "safe" mode, in which statements
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of the command language which may result in file modifications are
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disabled. This is to prevent execution of such commands contained in
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potentially malicious project files acquired from untrusted sources
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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* [ES] use leading zeros in axis year formats so to make up to 2 or 4
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digits in total (depending on whether the two-digit year span is
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enabled in the project preferences)
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* [ES] simplified X initialization - the resolution detection introduced
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in 5.1.5 prevented Grace from starting up with some buggy X servers
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(notably, StarNet's X-win32) (rep. #1138)
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* [ES] -safe/-nosafe command line options for switching the safe mode
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* [ES] "Run in safe mode" checkbox in "Edit/Preferences" for the same
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* [ES] removed broken "Command" function of the hotlink popup
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* [MD] backported from 5.2 pattern fills in PDF driver (off by default)
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* [MD] better font definitions in the MIF driver
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<H3>Portability/Compilation</H3>
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* [ES] use strchr() instead of BSD-ish index() which broke compilation
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under newer IRIX boxes (rep. #1139)
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* [ES] stop with error (instead of warning as used to be) if Motif can't be
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* [ES] background of the canvas, if page filling was disabled, might get
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filled in with the last object's fill props (rep. #1152)
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* [ES] changing HTML viewer by setting the GRACE_HELPVIEWER shell variable
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might result in memory corruption (rep. #1160)
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* [ES] canvas wasn't refreshed after feature extraction
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<H3>Functionality</H3>
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[EV] - Ed Vigmond <vigmonde@IGB.UMontreal.CA>
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[RN] - Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.berlin.ptb.de>
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[HS] - Henrik Seidel <henrik.seidel@gmx.de>
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[JH] - John Hasstedt <John.Hasstedt@sunysb.edu>
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[AM] - Alexander Mai <st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>
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[CM] - Charles Myers <myers@oicinc.com>
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[MM] - Marcus H. Mendenhall <marcus.h.mendenhall@vanderbilt.edu>
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[HS2] - Heiko R. Selber <selber@fhi-berlin.mpg.de>
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[EV] - Ed Vigmond <vigmonde(at-nospam)IGB.UMontreal.CA>
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[RN] - Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk(at-nospam)ChbRB.berlin.ptb.de>
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[HS] - Henrik Seidel <henrik.seidel(at-nospam)gmx.de>
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[JH] - John Hasstedt <John.Hasstedt(at-nospam)sunysb.edu>
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[AM] - Alexander Mai <st002279(at-nospam)hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>
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[CM] - Charles Myers <myers(at-nospam)oicinc.com>
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[MM] - Marcus H. Mendenhall <marcus.h.mendenhall(at-nospam)vanderbilt.edu>
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[HS2] - Heiko R. Selber <selber(at-nospam)fhi-berlin.mpg.de>
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[LM] - Luc Maisonobe
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[MR] - Mark Rintoul <rintoul@cs.sandia.gov>
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[HF] - Harald Freyer <hf@nike.cup.uni-muenchen.de>
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[JB] - Jesko Brudermann <jbruder@gwdg.de>
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[OT] - Ovidiu Toader <ovidiut@ostrich.physics.utoronto.ca>
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[RW] - Robin Williams <Robin.Williams@astro.cf.ac.uk>
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[JM] - John McKitterick <jbmck@batc.allied.com>
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[AH] - A. Stewart Hopkins <ahopkins@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
1145
[KS] - Keith Stribley <keith@stribley.dabsol.co.uk>
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[DP] - Donald A. Peterson <donald@nd.edu>
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[WB] - Wolfgang Braun <braun@pdi-berlin.de>
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[JSB] - J. Scott Berg <jsberg@bnl.gov>
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[AC] - Alber Chin <china@thewrittenword.com>
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[GJ] - Gerd Jahn <Gerd.Jahn@dss.dornier.dasa.de>
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[UH] - Ulrich Harttig <harttigu@ucs.orst.edu>
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[DB] - Dominique Bissieres <dominique.bissieres@turbomeca.fr>
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[RL] - R. Lahaye <lahaye@postech.edu>
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[MD] - Matthias Dillier <Matthias.Dillier@snb.ch>
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[PM] - Petrie L M <lmp@ornl.gov>
1156
[JS] - Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
1157
[ES] - Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>
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[MR] - Mark Rintoul <rintoul(at-nospam)cs.sandia.gov>
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[HF] - Harald Freyer <hf(at-nospam)nike.cup.uni-muenchen.de>
1434
[JB] - Jesko Brudermann <jbruder(at-nospam)gwdg.de>
1435
[OT] - Ovidiu Toader <ovidiut(at-nospam)ostrich.physics.utoronto.ca>
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[RW] - Robin Williams <Robin.Williams(at-nospam)astro.cf.ac.uk>
1437
[JM] - John McKitterick <jbmck(at-nospam)batc.allied.com>
1438
[AH] - A. Stewart Hopkins <ahopkins(at-nospam)mail.arc.nasa.gov>
1439
[KS] - Keith Stribley <keith(at-nospam)stribley.dabsol.co.uk>
1440
[DP] - Donald A. Peterson <donald(at-nospam)nd.edu>
1441
[WB] - Wolfgang Braun <braun(at-nospam)pdi-berlin.de>
1442
[JSB] - J. Scott Berg <jsberg(at-nospam)bnl.gov>
1443
[AC] - Alber Chin <china(at-nospam)thewrittenword.com>
1444
[GJ] - Gerd Jahn <Gerd.Jahn(at-nospam)dss.dornier.dasa.de>
1445
[UH] - Ulrich Harttig <harttigu(at-nospam)ucs.orst.edu>
1446
[DB] - Dominique Bissieres <dominique.bissieres(at-nospam)turbomeca.fr>
1447
[RL] - R. Lahaye <lahaye(at-nospam)postech.edu>
1448
[MD] - Matthias Dillier <Matthias.Dillier(at-nospam)snb.ch>
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[PM] - Petrie L M <lmp(at-nospam)ornl.gov>
1450
[JS] - Jan Schaumann <jschauma(at-nospam)netmeister.org>
1451
[SR] - Stewart Rounds <sarounds(at-nospam)usgs.gov>
1452
[PB] - Peter Breitenlohner <peb(at-nospam)mppmu.mpg.de>
1453
[MO] - Marius Olechnovičius <img(at-nospam)mail.lt>
1454
[YZ] - Yura Zotov <yznews(at-nospam)hotbox.ru>
1455
[TO] - Tobias Oed <tobias(at-nospam)physics.odu.edu>
1456
[ES] - Evgeny Stambulchik <evgeny(at-nospam)stambulchik.net>
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