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This slowed the program down slightly but made it a lot more flexible.
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This program, based on the System V version,
-was written by Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>
+was written by Ian Darwin
+.Aq ian@darwinsys.com
without looking at anybody else's source code.
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John Gilmore revised the code extensively, making it better than
the first version.
Geoff Collyer found several inadequacies
and provided some magic file entries.
-Contributions by the `&' operator by Rob McMahon, cudcv@warwick.ac.uk, 1989.
+Contributions by the `&' operator by Rob McMahon
+.Aq cudcv@warwick.ac.uk ,
+1989.
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-Guy Harris, guy@netapp.com, made many changes from 1993 to the present.
+Guy Harris
+.Aq guy@netapp.com
+made many changes from 1993 to the present.
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Primary development and maintenance from 1990 to the present by
-Christos Zoulas (christos@astron.com).
+Christos Zoulas
+.Aq christos@astron.com .
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-Altered by Chris Lowth, chris@lowth.com, 2000:
-Handle the
+Altered by Chris Lowth
+.Aq chris@lowth.com ,
+2000: handle the
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option to output mime type strings, using an alternative
magic file and internal logic.
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-Altered by Eric Fischer (enf@pobox.com), July, 2000,
-to identify character codes and attempt to identify the languages
+Altered by Eric Fischer
+.Aq enf@pobox.com
+July, 2000, to identify character codes and attempt to identify the languages
of non-ASCII files.
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-Altered by Reuben Thomas (rrt@sc3d.org), 2007-2009, to improve MIME
-support and merge MIME and non-MIME magic, support directories as well
-as files of magic, apply many bug fixes, update and fix a lot of magic,
-and improve the build system.
+Altered by Reuben Thomas
+.Aq rrt@sc3d.org ,
+2007-2011, to improve MIME support, merge MIME and non-MIME magic,
+support directories as well as files of magic, apply many bug fixes,
+update and fix a lot of magic, improve the build system, improve the
+documentation, and rewrite the Python bindings in pure Python.
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The list of contributors to the
.Sq magic