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    This is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that uses
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    one or more files to emulate physical disks.
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    Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Bo Brantén.
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    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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    (at your option) any later version.
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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    GNU General Public License for more details.
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    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
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    The GNU General Public License is also available from:
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    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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    Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
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    Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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    Please send comments, corrections and contributions to bosse@acc.umu.se
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    The most recent version of this program is available from:
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    http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
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    Revision history:
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   14. 2006-01-05
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       Updated impersonation so that use of image files stored on network
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       drives work on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and
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       Windows Server 2003 SP1.
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   13. 2004-06-09
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       Small fix in file size handling.
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   12. 2004-05-27
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       Possible fix for memory leak.
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   11. 2002-11-30
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       Added ioctl to query information about mounted disk image files by
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       request from developer of GUI.
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   10. 2002-11-24
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       Added a check so that FileDisk doesn't use compressed or encrypted
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       images. For an explanation why this doesn't work see comment in the
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       source code.
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    9. 2002-08-26
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       Corrected the share access for read-only FileDisk images.
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    8. 2002-08-11
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       Updated the control application to support UNC paths.
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       Changed the handling of CD-ROM device objects to avoid some problems on
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       Windows XP.
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       Corrected the handling of file sizes so that FileDisk images can be
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       sparse files.
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    7. 2002-02-28
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       Added support for CD-images.
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    6. 2002-01-21
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       Added support for impersonation so that FileDisk images can be stored
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       on network drives.
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    5. 2002-01-18
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       Updated for Windows XP by Robert A. Rose.
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    4. 2001-07-08
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       Formating to FAT on Windows 2000 now works.
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    3. 2001-05-14
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       Corrected the error messages from the usermode control application.
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    2. 2000-03-15
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       Added handling of IOCTL_DISK_CHECK_VERIFY to make the driver work on
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       Windows 2000 (tested on beta 3, build 2031). Formating to FAT still
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       doesn't work but formating to NTFS does.
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    1. 1999-06-09
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       Initial release.