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From: vpoy@terapin.com (Vincent Poy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sondblaster under Unix
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:04:01 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <1jmeqnINNch3@hydra.Helsinki.FI>, hsavolai@cs.Helsinki.FI (Hannu
Savolainen) writes:
>In <sfLD8rK00WB2BX3B4m@andrew.cmu.edu> sneaker+@CMU.EDU (Manu S. Kumar)
writes:
>
>
>>Can I run an X-Environment on my 486DX33(8MB, 125 MB) and still be able
>>to put my soundblaster to good use....like use bsd or linux and still
>>connect my synth to my computer to play music.
>
>Yes. It is possible under Linux. There is a driver available at
>nic.funet.fi (pub/OS/Linux/xtra/snd-kit).
>
>Hannu
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Hannu Savolainen (hsavolai@cs.helsinki.fi)
>Kun Savolainen puhuu, niin vastuu siirtyy valittomasti kuulijalle.
>(or link("/dev/null", "/dev/flames") in plain C)
Does anyone happen to know what standards of UNIX is Linux compatible with?
Also for the TCP/IP, what clients are missing from the Linux Kernal's TCP/IP
for InterNet? And also what type of dos compatibility does the Dos Emulator
provide?  I mean like does it run programs needing the 286 or even 386 mode or
just can run software that only runs on 8088 type machines for the DOS
compatibility?  

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: xfs does not work for me :-(
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:52:05 GMT

Hello, 

Applying the xfs-patches to linux-0.99p4-source does not work,
but with linux-0.99p3 it works, after this the patches
from p3 to p4 work as well...

Make config works.

Make dep:
In file included from init/main.c:16:
/usr/include/linux/sched.h:15: linux/tasks.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:59, from init/main.c:16:
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:156: linux/xfs_i.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:59, from init/main.c:16:
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:225: linux/xfs_sb.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [dep] Error 1
# 

Wheow! 

What now?

MfG, michael Will
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Subject: Linux .99pl4
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:51:22 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-29232]: jupiter

Everything seems to work fine.

The only problem I'm having is one that has been around ever since I got my
vga card. None of the Svga text modes work. Most are a blury mess, but a few
just let me see the top left 80x24 characters with regular the size. The rest
of the screen is really there. I have an Everex Viewpoint Premium (et4000 1MB).
This is not much of a problem since I like normal vga text better anyway.

One other thing: It would be nice if floppy disk errors were handled a
little more gracefully. Some times I get a constant stream of "floppy disk
reset called"'s across my screen. It's always because of a bad disk or
something like that, but there is no way to stop it. Even kill -9 does
nothing.

Larry
From: ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Tcl and Tk, Wcl and Dirt, ...
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:03:41 GMT
Reply-To: ghart@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

I'm interested in playing with any GUI builders that have been ported to
Linux.  Has anyone ported any?

I'm in the process of getting Tk/Tcl compiled, and wondered if someone had
done it already (I searched tsx but didn't see any).

A releasted question: is there a csh port for Linux?  I never use it, but
the config script for Tcl uses it.  I tried using "zsh", but it didn't 
quite work (what is zsh?).  I've heard of tcsh, is this what I want?
-- 
    geoff hart ghart@ems news@ems library@ems   x4273   s/ems/ems.cdc.com/
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sw5y@gingko.cs.Virginia.EDU (Seung-Chul  Woo)
Subject: Help! Where can I get FAQ for Linux?
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:33:11 GMT

Hello,

Will you send me(sw5y@virginia.edu) a copy of FAQ answers? 
Thank you in advance.

- Michael Woo
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Neue Files bis zum 01/26/93 auf der mcshh
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Distribution: hanse
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:17:22 GMT

Hi,

Dies ist ein halbautomatisches Posting. Es zeigta alle neuen Linux-
Files auf der mcshh seit dem letzten derartigen Posting an.

> /usr/ftp/pub/systeme/Linux/Incoming/test


Das wars. Happy downloading. Und wenn's mal ein ganzes Linux-System sein
soll, dann ruft einfach 7654276 an. Da geht die umibox dran, mit
guest-account und 24-Stunden Service. Und alles zum Angucken.....

Bernie
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: a universal set of fs commands?
Keywords: fs
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:12:45 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> >/etc/fscmd.d contains a directory for each filesystem type, named after the
> >filesystem type (in Linux's case, this should be the type name that mount
> >	mkfs, fsck, fsid, fspart, clean
> 
> If this is necessary (and I make no judgement on that), I suggest
> using a standard location.  Under Solaris 2.1 (which I assume is
> consistent with SVr4 in general), this kind of stuff is in /etc/fs/XXX
> where XXX is the filesystem type.  Things that don't need to be in

No problem.  "/etc/fscmd.d" is a SCO-ism.  "/etc/fs" is an acceptable
replacement.  Someone else mentioned separate "/etc/mkfs/*", "/etc/fsck/*",
etc., which idea I *don't* like.

This weekend I'm going to see if I can collect some sources for existing
filesystems and commands and try to put together a first release of this
stuff.  (Filesystem authors/maintainers might want to get in touch with me
if this will cause problems, e.g. would prefer me to wait until next beta
release comes out :-)

++Brandon

--
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Help stamp out OSF/Motif in our lifetime!
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From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: Re: terminfo?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:58:13 GMT

In article <C1CEEE.LHL@mach1.wlu.ca> kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U) writes:
>Hello, this is a question I guess directed mainly at the developers of
>Linux:
>My question is this, will Linux at some later date support the terminfo
>database, or will linux continue to use termcap?

terminfo support is included with the ncurses package which is currently under
BETA testing. ncurses.lzh is available on tsx-11.mit.edu, ncurses.tar.Z is on
sunsite.unc.edu

Zeyd

>
>Just a little technical curiosity,
>
>
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Kevin Fisher  ><> 	|  "Thank you.  You can't believe everything you
>kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca   |  see and hear, can you?" - Hendrix, 'EXP'
>________________________________________________________________________________
From: ee3jmb@festival.ed.ac.uk (J Brickwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X and microsoft bus mouse?
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:59:55 GMT

I am having trouble getting X386 to work with my
MS bus mouse.  I have /dev/mouse symbolically linked
to /dev/bmousems and the kernel seems to detect
and install the driver at boot time....However, when
firing up X I am unable to move anything/press buttons.
i.e. X starts OK but I have no mouse !
Xconfig contains the mouse control line,

busmouse "/dev/mouse"

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance,

Justin.
ee3jmb@festival.ed.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: darin@infograph.com (Darin Wayrynen)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro / 8514A with Linux/X
Keywords: ati ultra pro 8514 x x-windows
Organization: Informative Graphics
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:44:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.163041.16443@ugle.unit.no> mariusk@Lise.Unit.NO (Marius Kjeldahl) writes:

>I've successfully installed the SLS 99p2 distribution. However there
>were no drivers for my videocard (ATI Ultra Pro) or for the compatible
>8514A for X. I manage to locate an 8514 driver at misc. sites, in the
>following files:
>
>-rw-rw-r--  1 28569         6024 Sep  5 23:41 X8514.README
>-rw-rw-r--  1 28569       452427 Aug 29 15:44 Xlinux8514.T.Z
>-rw-rw-r--  1 28569        90169 Aug 29 15:44 x.8514.src.T.Z
>
>However the instructions for installing this driver makes reference to
>a file called xsrc1.1.T.Z . Archie reported these files at some sites
>in the US, but since it was rather big (approx 6MB) I do not want to
>ftp it and copy it onto diskettes without knowing that the thing
>really compiles after the changes suggested in the instructions for
>installing the driver.

>Has anybody successfully managed to use the ATI Ultra Pro or 8514A
>card with X under this distribution? And if so, are the modified
>binaries available anywhere so I do not need to download all the files
>as I described earlier?

I am using the Xlinux8514.T.Z file you referenced above successfully
on my ATI 8514 Ultra.  I followed the instructions and had no problems
with the server.

I did not need the source to get the X8514 server to work.





-- 
Darin Wayrynen                        UUCP:     uunet!uupsi4!infogrf!darin
Paragon Consulting Group              INTERNET: darin@infograph.com
                                      PHONE:    602-437-9566
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:05:29 GMT
Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto

In article <1993Jan26.190254.3059@sarah.albany.edu> rob@dinner.asrc.albany.edu (Robert D. Seals) writes:
>Hello,
>I just got sls from tsx-11 today, and prepared things and dove
>in to install on my hard disks.
>
>Things seems sensible except that bad blocks on the hard disks
>aren't mapped to a forwarding area. This makes installation nearly
>impossible, since my disks have many bad blocks. Is there
>an 'fsck' on the a1/a2 disks that can locate and deal with bad
>blocks so that I may proceed with installation? If not,
>what am I supposa do?
>
	mkfs -c checks and marks bad blocks

marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: bug in getservbyname/problem with gdb
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:24:41 GMT

In trying to debug INGRES's lock driver I am being stumped by two things.
First getservbyname() returns the wrong port number. This happens regardless
of the service required.

Secondly how can you debug the child process in gdb? This problem appears
often when dealing with daemon processes.

Please feel free to reply with any commnets tou may have,

Zeyd

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal)
Subject: Re: new ka9q (version 8) uploaded
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:54:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: uri@watson.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: No-Man's Land

In article <Jan.27.04.49.57.1993.13106@athos.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
|> I noticed that somebody has a recent NOS release of KA9Q running on
|> Linux.  That's a newer version of KA9Q than this one. 

I think it's WAMPES release, by Olaf. it has C-SLIP, but no PPP.
There is a "real" NOS, but I have no idea, whether it works under
Linux. or not. It has everything - C-SLIP, PPP, AX25, <you name it>...

Probably it will require a MAJOR effort to port it. [I'm trying to
port it to AIX/PS2, and so far couldn't get beyond "longjmp()" -
somewhere in the middle of something the perfectly filled env buffer
gets botched and filled with zeroes!! Damn! :-]

|> while the version of KA9Q I started from is fairly old, I've done a
|> certain amount of my own work on telnet and compressed SLIP.  I have
|> spent a lot of time getting CSLIP and telnet to the point where I get
|> as good interactive response via KA9Q as a simple Kermit connection.

Maybe you could just add PPP to it? Taking the PPP source (about 5 files)
from NOS? Then there will be no reason to fight'n'port all the other
noses (:-).
-- 
Regards,
Uri.		uri@watson.ibm.com
------------
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia)
Subject: ANNOUNCE xfs-0.6.1 test release
Organization: Mathematics Department, Columbia University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:06:59 GMT
X-Posted-From: shire.math.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

ANNOUNCE xfs-0.6.1 test release.

l99.4-xfs6.1.note (this file)
l99.4-xfs6.1.tar.Z

has been uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu incoming directory.

This is a test release.

xfs-0.6.1 sacrifices two direct block pointer in each inode for ctime
and atime. xfs-0.6.1 use three seperate time record.

This means the layout of xfs-0.6.1 is not compatible with xfs-0.6.
Now xfs has all the fields a "real UNIX" inode has as per Bach's book.
With the target (at least for me) that the Linux will be used as a
personal workstation, light multi-user system or a server on a LAN
with similar box, as NeXT does, I believe that this is the first and
also the last time of changing layout of xfs.

xfs-0.6.1 has run on my machine since last Saturday. I think I should
make it available for test before too may people jump into xfs.
I will not write an in-place converter, because in case there is a bug,
it will be defficult to figure out if the bug is in the converter or
xfs itself. I apologize for the extra work of whose who have tested
xfs-0.6.

I have added a short tutorial to reduce the confusion of how to install
xfs-0.6.1.

The primary reports of xfs-0.6 testing are quite encourage. Except
one tester failed to make it work after heavy hand-editing the patch
(He has many other stuff to add into the kernel), all other testers
(3-4) made their system with xfs work fine so far. There
are no bug found in the kernel part. Three silly bugs found in the 
xfsck. They are fixed in 0.6.1.  

I only have IDE disks. I can not test if xfs happy with disks have 
bad blocks. If you are a xfs tester and has a non-IDE disk, please
let me know if it works.

Warning!!! This is still an ALPHA test release. You may experience
data lost. Keep this in mind.



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From: grindley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Robin Grindley)
Subject: ?? Why no out/in in assembler ??
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:10:56 GMT

I am trying to write a small program to allow me to output and input values
to the serial port (for testing something on my mouse). I tried writing
inline assembly code, but it says there are no such instructions as in/out.
So i figured i would see how the kernel did it, but it uses outb routines,
which don't exist anywhere. The only way they get resolved is to compile
-O6, then they disappear! What is this garbage?

  So firstly, why are there no port I/O assembler commands available, and
secondly, if we have to rely on psychotic (read non-standard) compile
switches, then could someone at least tell me where to find documentation
on this stuff? (I can not find anything documenting gcc beyond the man page.
I would like these odd switches and __asm__ syntax explained.)

By the way, i assume one of the developers has already written such a port
I/O testing program, but i would rather learn how the system works by
doing/writing it myself.

robin
-- 
robin

 		iNSANITY - It's only a state of mind

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arne@mars.rmt.sub.org (Arne Marschall)
Subject: Running Ghostscript w/o X ?
Organization: home
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:36:27 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Hi !

About two weeks ago I installed successfully the SLS package series A,B and C.

Now, when I try to run Ghostscript it says: can't load libX11.so.2.0.
Since I can't install X-Windows due to a lack of memory, HD capacity ...etc, 
I'm wondering wether I could run gs at all without the complete X package
installed.

Would it be helpfull to get the above mentioned library or do I have to get the
sources and recompile gs or what else ? Any way at all ?

Thanks for any hints on this.

bye

--
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Schoene Aussicht 16		FIDO:	2:248/4.0
D-6272 Niedernhausen		Tel.: 06127/78352
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: markcha@microsoft.com (Mark Chace)
Subject: Re: Problem with lpr/lpd solved?
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:36:50 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <GTAYLOR.93Jan24155850@jade.tufts.edu> gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor) writes:
>i'm having the same problems...  i can't for the life of me get it to
>work...  i set all the perms exactly according to the readme, and it
>hasn't gotten me anywhere...  i string|grepped the lpd binary, and the
>only lpd in it is /usr/spool/lpd, so i made a link there figuring it

It took a while, but I eventually got lpr/lpd working.  There are two things
that I had to do:
   - remove /usr/spool/lpd.lock before trying to start lpd.  lpd creates this
     file so that other people (who? lpr?) can determine that lpd is running.
     if the file exists, lpd will not startup as it is already running.  
     Shutdown does not terminate lpd properly, so lpd will no remove this file.

   - Configure the kernel without TCP/IP support.  If TCP/IP exists, lpd will
     look in a special file to determine information about itself.  I don't 
     have this file or know what is in it.  I believe that it is a standard
     TCP/IP configuration file. 

Mark 

Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:25712 comp.os.linux.announce:196
From: sanjuan!pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: SLS update: 99p4, f2c.h and /etc perms
Keywords: SLS 99p4
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:18:59 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Originator: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU

SLS has just been updated to 99p4.  The main reason is that
some SCSI users (ST01) are unable to use 99p2.  But also
Linus has asked for more feedback upon the latest release.
Again, the IPC and selection patches are installed.
Get a1 and a2, plus the source in b4/lx99p4.tpz.

Also, c3/zcfix.tpz provides the missing f2c.h file reported
by some.

And, a3/syssetup.tpz fixes the permission of the /etc
directory so that non root users doing mount, don't
create the ~mtab file and then die.

Finally, the first 's' series disk is available.  s1 contains
contains most, if not all of the source for things that "let
people into your system", but also contains things that change
or need work.  Possibly a few more disks will be joining it
shortly.

Peter

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From: S_FAEHNLE@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Faehnle Thomas)
Subject: HELP: Trouble installing LINUX on older HD
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:23:03 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.25beta

Hi LINUX-users!

I got a *BIG* problem installing LINUX on an older 40 Meg MFM harddisk.
On this HD some tracks are damaged---no problem, I thought, just specify
them when formatting the disk with the BIOS utility. But when I want to
install LINUX it ignores the bad-track-marks and so it's gonna hiccup
every time he wants to write on a bad track (no wonder). I think You can
imagine that this is extremely annoying....

So this is my question: Does anyone of You ( <-- experienced LINUX-users )
			know how to mark bad tracks on a HD under LINUX ???


Any answer would be a great help!

Many thanks from a forward-looking LINUX newcomer.
Bye, Thomas.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: Linx/3com
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:27:50 GMT

In article <158.114.17.157-200193133420@eyork.mcl.bdm.com> 158.114.17.157 (Anyone have a 3com driver) writes:
>
>Has anyone designed or found a driver that may work with any of the 3 com
>boards???  ANy help is appreciated.
>
>EYORK

My 3c503 driver is on usra.edu and super.org in
~ftp/pub/linux/ethercards/

Look in COLA for an announcement RSN.

-- 
Donald Becker				       becker@super.org
Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney)
Subject: RE: MWM??
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:46:16 GMT

garyt@lgc.com writes:

>>The other solution to have mwm on your Linux is to buy the mwm sources
>>at OSF and adapt it to your Linux...Quite expensive, but maybe not
>>impossible for big research centers or education sites.....
>>
>>Did someone try that?
>
>We have the sources for Motif 1.1.1 and I had no troubles compiling
>them on Linux.  No "adapting" necessary. :-)

	I am not sure how your license reads, but is there any way you
would be able to make the binaries available??

			Bruce


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: bug in cpp?
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:28:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.105225.3418@athena.mit.edu>, ludger.kunz@fernuni-hagen.de (Ludger Kunz) writes:
|> Today i tried to compile gzip-0.8.1. Everything worked fine except for
|> the assembler file. The file match.S is preprocessed by cpp with
|> the following command:
|> /lib/cpp -DUNDERLINE match.S > _match.s
|> 
|> When trying to compile the _match.s-file with gcc, the following
|> 2 messages occur:
|> match.s:51: invalid character '_' in opcode
|> match.s:63: invalid character '_' in opcode
|> 
|> Looking at the file _match.s leads to the lines
|> 
|>     _match_init :
|> and 
|>     _longest_match :
|> 
|> Removing the blank between the label and the colon leads to a successful 
|> compilation.
|> Another bug concerns the following code:
|>  add     $window+2,%edi
|> This leads to an error while linking. The symbol window must be replaced with
|> _window. There are to locations where these replacement isn't done by
|> cpp.
|> Both situations work right on a sun.
|> 
|> Is it possibly a bug in cpp for linux?
|> 
|> mfg
|> 
|> lket

For gzip-0.8.1 with gcc 2.3.3 + 0.99.4, I did

configure
vi Makefile # remove getopt.o which is in libc.a
make


H.J.
From: antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux using HPFS
Date: 24 Jan 1993 19:06:12 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

There DOES exist a magazine article on the structure of HPFS. Or rather
the source code to a DOS program that could READ but not write HPFS
partitions. I think it was in _Microsoft Systems Journal_ or _IBM
Personal Systems Developer_. Anyone with access to these mags of about
1 to 2 years ago? (I photocopied the article but seem to have lost it!)

I assume you mean HPFS as in wot OS/2 uses.
-- 
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Melbourne, Australia		[1] s871780@rmit.edu.au
"Call me Jack - stranger things have happened!"
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