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