27.08.01: The gethdpath function had a bug which made it impossible to
          start MToolsFM from a directory greater than 49 chars in length.
          This problem has been found and fixed by Michael Joyner
          <mjoyner@wolf.dyns.cx>. Thanks for the patch!
27.02.2001 Merci beaucoup à Eric Seigne <erics@rycks.com> pour la traduction française!!
Feb 2001:  Thanks to Hampton for discovering and reporting a bug in refresh_event, and 
           to Ph. Bourdeu d'Aguerre and Sebastian Kolbe for reporting and fixing a 
           bug in time and date handling
09.05.2000 Thanks to Gunter Steinbach for his help in debugging problems related
           to specific window-managers, some buffer-overruns and the date format.
03.05.2000 Thanks to R. P. C. Rodgers for the man-page
05.02.2000 Thanks to Sebastian Kiesel for some important improvements
           of the autoconf stuff
12.11.1999 Thanks to Claudio Fanin for testing and debugging under HP-UX 
           and SGI/MIPS
26.10.1999 Thanks to Sven Arnold for writing a patch that avoids troubles
           with old versions with mtools, corrects some typos and a bug that
           caused mfm to terminate when "select all" was called on an empty 
           floppy.
27.10.1999 Thanks to Thomas Ribbrock for finding a bug in a signal handler 
           and for giving me some ideas for the Makefile.