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+The current maintainer of rc is Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>.  Please
+send all bug reports to him.
+
+This shell was written by me, Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul Haahr
+for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing certain
+bits and pieces to rc (notably the limits code, print.c, most of which.c
+and the backquote redirection code), and to Hugh Redelmeier for running
+rc through his fussy ANSI compiler and thereby provoking interesting
+discussions about portability, and also for providing many valuable
+suggestions for improving rc's code in general.  Finally, many thanks
+go to David Sanderson, for reworking the man page to format well with
+troff, and for providing many suggestions both for rc and its man page.
+
+Thanks to Boyd Roberts for the original history.c, and to Hugh again for
+re-working parts of that code.
+
+Of course, without Tom Duff's design of the original rc, I could not
+have written this shell (though I probably would have written *a*
+shell).  Almost all of the features, with minor exceptions, have been
+implemented as described in the Unix v10 manuals.  Hats off to td for
+designing a C-like, minimal but very useful shell.
+
+Tom Duff has kindly given permission for the paper he wrote for UKUUG to
+be distributed with this version of rc (called "plan9.ps" in the same
+FTP or HTTP directory as the shell).  Please read this paper bearing in
+mind that it describes a program that was written at AT&T and that the
+version of rc presented here differs in some respects.
+
+Tim would like to thank these people for their contributions since he
+took over maintenance of rc.  Arvid Requate, Bengt Kleberg, Brynjulv
+Hauksson, Byron Rakitzis, Chris Siebenmann, David Swasey, Gert-Jan Vons,
+Ian Lance Taylor, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Marc Moorcroft, Mark K Gardner,
+Raymond Venneker, Rich $alz, Rob Savoye, Scott Schwartz, Stefan Dalibor,
+Tom Culliton, Tom Tromey, Vincent Broman.