History of !Acronyms by Gareth Duncan/Richard Butler
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Version 1.0
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This was the first incarnation of !Acronyms and was written in BASIC.
It provides you with a small but perfectly formed window with two 
writable icons postioned one above the other. All you need to do is
write your unknown abbreviation into the top icon and the full meaning
is provided in the icon below it. Two versions are avaliable, the
first installs itself onto the icon bar and the second is a VIX
version for voyager.

Version 2.0
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This version of !Acronyms was written in C and so is much faster. The
acronyms are kept in a text file and so can be added to and edited 
easily. The program allows a maximum of 20,000 acronyms to be added to
the text file before it runs out of space.

Version 2.5
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You can now enter the text in lower case and it will be converted to 
upper case. Smileys are now supported and the list has got
non-internet abbreviations now.

Version 2.75
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Icon on the Icon bar added and also an info window. I have also made 
it so that when the computer is shutdown !Acronyms quits. 

Version 3.0
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Re-wrote the whole program to improve various things and to alter some
of the error messages. The number of Acronyms that can be added to
CaseInSens and CaseSens has been reduced to 750 each and the wimp slot
of the program has also been reduced from 500K to 60K.

Version 3.5
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Added the Click Here To Open CaseSens file and Click Here To Open
CaseInSens File icons and also the Scan Files entry to the menu to
make  adding new abbreviations easier. I also added the help entry to
the menu to make getting at the help file easier. Also fixed the info
window that said July when it was actually August (oh well, who cares
what month it is).

Version 3.75
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Used the template file provided by Clifford Downs which is better than
my one. The window now also gains the input focus when you open it. I
also changed the menu structure adding the submenus Help and Options
so that all the old functions e.g. opening the CaseSens file are
accesable from the menu structure. Fixed the bug that when F12 was
pressed it didn't work.

Version 4.00
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 Optimizing the source.
 Change from Easy C (RISC OS Lib) to GCC (Stubs) was a bit of work.
 !RunImage was 22,360 Bytes, now only ~9KB.
 Main change is that I have taken on development of the program, 
  thanx Gareth !
 Theirs now 3 files of acronyms: Computers, Emoticons and Acronyms.

Version 4.50
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 Polished frontend.
 Finished optmizing....for now !
 Now clicking the icon with Adjust opens the main window too.
 RunImage reduced to 5KB by -O2 compression

Version 5.00
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 Acronyms file now contains 125 entries.
 Emoticons file now contains 112 entries.
 Computers file now contains 336 entries.
 Total Acronyms in program: 573
 Limit brought down to 500 acronyms per section.
 WimpSlot decreased to 100K due to the 500 entries in each section.
 A little bug-fix in the initialize_text_files()

Version 5.25
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 Now built with OSLib - removing all those evil _kernel_swi_regs :-)
 Clicking Adjust now keeps the menu open - on fix for Gareth's bug 
  list.
  
Version 5.26
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 Minor update to the info window and tiny code changes.

Version 5.45
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 Lots of re-arrangment to the code.
 This is a internal version, a stopgap for version 5.50

Version 5.50
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 User interface restored to the original, compact frontend.
 Acronyms is now released under the GNU General Public Licence
  and the source has been adapted to this
 The main change in 5.50 is in the source. I *really* recommend
  version 5.50 source over 5.26 or earlier. The source has been 
  split into 3 files: file, which deals with file operations. main,
  which is the 'big mamma' and wimp, which controls the front-end.
  
Version 5.51
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 Quite a few words in the Computers data file have been corrected.
  Thanks are due to Stan Jelley for spell checking this and offering
  me the updated file.

---Richard.