HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eker@loria.fr (Steven Eker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon at BCS Atari ST user group meeting!
Keywords: Atari Falcon 030 User Group Meeting
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:10:36 GMT
Organization: CRIN (CNRS) Nancy - INRIA Lorraine

In article <96810@bu.edu>, markjl@acs.bu.edu (Mark Lavi) writes:
|> Thursday, September 24, 1992.

[stuff deleted]

|> DSP specs:  M56001 (16 MIPS or ~ 96 MOPS = Millions of operations per second).
|> 
|> 26 pin                          __________[8-bit bus for instructions]
|> DSP Serial Port                /
|> ---------------=>[Motorola 56K DSP Chip]----------=>(SSI out)
|> (SSI in)           \
|>                     \_[RAM] 32kWords, 25 nanoseconds.
|>                                                       2
|> 	    More about the DSP port: a Sony/Phillips I S port (sound DMA)
|> 	    CODAC coder (digital to analog (DAC) and vice-versa).  One mega-
|>             byte per second IN and OUT simultaneously, this allows for expan-
|>             sion of stereo inputs for digital sampling or additonal MIDI
|>             ports, etc.

I sincerely hope this diagram is wrong! It looks like the DSP is just
tacked on to the falcon like a periperal with no fast DMA to main memory
- no fast 3D vector calculations on objects stored in main memory; no hitting
the screen memory with the DSP for realtime shading/texture mapping; no fast
JPEG/MPEG unscrambling... :-(

Can someone with developer docs clarify the DSP<->main memory/68030 link?
Is there any way for the DSP to transfer data directly to/from main memory
with out the assistance of the 68030?
How is the 32Kwords DSP RAM distributed over the X, Y & P memory areas?

Also what are the new blitter features? does it do 32 bit blits or does it
do 16 bit blits with caching to make use of the extra bus width and leave more
memory cycles for the 68030 or is it just the same old cycle hogging
ST blitter with a double speed clock?

Steven
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: pinelr@aix.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli)
Subject: Unix Windows on a Sun 4
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 17:21:30 GMT

   Hi.  I was wondering if anyone has gotten the server end of UW to compile
and run on a Sun 4 machine.  We used to have Sun 3's at RPI but now we have
all AIX RISCs and Sun 4 machines, and I haven't been able to use it since.
Anyone else have better luck?


-- 
  |||   | Rob Pinelli    |5\ Seymour: "Hey this isn't right! You're supposed to
 / | \  | pinelr@rpi.edu |18\ show me how miserable everybody is without me!"
Atari ST| 203 North Hall |276\ Junior: "Hey, if *everyone* made the world a 
 Mega 2 | Troy, NY 12180 |7080\ better place, it'd be perfect!"   -Little Shop
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: aramsey@engr.UVic.CA (Aaron  Ramsey)
Subject: Falcon
Reply-To: aramsey@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:47:54 GMT

ATURI IZ GRATE. Go aturi go.
From: Desmond_Liu@mindlink.bc.ca (Desmond Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Backing up the HD -- AGAIN
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:08:05 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

>In my previous posting, I had requested some advice on the best utility to
>use in backing up my HD.  My problems arise from not being able to find
>a program that will compress the files while backing them up or being able
>to restore the files once backed up.

I've written an archiver program amongst the likes of ZOO and LZH which
supports multi-volume archives like ARJ. You use a switch to specify how
large you want each archive to be ('-c720') and it will compress all the
files specified into a number of archives of 720K each. It works well,
however: (1) Compression is a little slower than Zoo or Lzh; (2) it only
stores files, so any empty directories won't be saved; and (3) it's a
preliminary version, so you can't do an 'incremental' backup like most
decent HD backup programs. Decompression is almost as fast as file copying,
though. In any case, leave me E-mail and I will send you a uuencoded
executable.
---
Desmond Liu, B.Sc. in Comp. Science  UUCP: a3148@mindlink.UUCP
Vancouver, B.C. (Go Canucks!!!)  Bang: ...!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a3148
(still looking for work *sigh*)  Internet: a3148@mindlink.bc.ca
From: terjeve@ifi.uio.no (Terje Vernly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MiNT 0.96
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:59:09 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: terjeve@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no

The Readme-file in gc222bin.zoo at a.a mentions that the current
version of MiNT is 0.96.  Is this correct?  The highest version I have
seen so far is 0.96.

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  | InterNet: terjeve@ifi.uio.no    It is better to be alive."     |
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From: cordes@ac.dal.ca (John Cordes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Using font LCIRCLE10 in LaTeX
Summary: How to use font lcircle1 in pictures?
Keywords: latex,picture,oval,font
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:45:32 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


 I've just started checking out the picture environment in Latex and have 
run into a problem.

 My small picture has a \put(x,y){\oval(x,y)} command. When I went to print
on an SLM804 I got the message (from DVIPRINT) that font lcircle10 (note
the 9 character font name) couldn't be found, so the oval part of the pic
didn't print. I _do_ have a font called circle10 and also one called
lcircle1 (both TFM's and PK's). It looks to me as though the 8 character
filename limitation may be causing a problem here, preventing lcircle1 from
being recognized as the desired font. If this is right, how do I overcome
this apparently trivial difficulty? 

 I'd be very grateful for any advice on this. Thanks in advance.


John Cordes,  Dept. of Physics,  Dalhousie University         
Halifax, N.S., Canada  B3H 3J5   email: cordes@ac.dal.ca
From: jbraatz@astro.umd.edu (James Braatz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 520STFM for sale
Date: 4 Oct 92 14:43:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U. of Maryland @ College Park, Astronomy

I have a 520STFM for sale, includes:

  SC1224 color monitor
  internal SSFD
  1200 baud modem (Hayes comp.)
  100 disks of PD games, utilities, music, a couple of commercial games
	(ST Wars, Golden Path, Music Studio)
  Abacus books: ST internals and GEM programmer's reference

  $300

  Reply to Jim at:  jbraatz@astro.umd.edu
From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TDD
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:01:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: a.1992Oct2.140155.24429
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater


okay...  TDD tech info

5 bit baudot code
26 chars (upper case only)
2 shift characters (alpha shift and num shift)
the same alpha codes are used for numeric digits after a shift character.
Must shift back to alpha later....

The carrier is momentary.  It exists only while a character is being
transmitted.  Then there is silence until the next character.  The SAME
carrier is used by the other end... hence the need for silence between
transmitted characters.

The bit rate is about 45.45 baud (ca. 50 or 60 wpm)

the 5 data bits are bracketed by a start/stop bit pair.

jc
From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GIF/JPG for TT
Keywords: Picture viewer, Image Processing
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:55:51 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

In article <1apfvlINNq6i@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> hintz@uranus.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Stefan Hintz) writes:
>
>Charly-Image Version 2.0 and GEM-View 1.1i (08.04.1992) can both display JPEG
>and GIF-Files in all resolution, also on graphic boards. Charly-Image can also
>save JPEG-File an manipulate them in TrueColor or Greyscale.

Is Charly-Image freeware, shareware, or commercial?  I've never heard of it
before, and would like to see it.




-- 
   |||    Ed Krimen
   |||    ekrimen@wet.com
  / | \   E.KRIMEN (GEnie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: dvasilef@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (David Vasileff)
Subject: Re: FAX software
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:50:44 GMT

In <rouellet.717717071@ragueneau> rouellet@gel.ulaval.ca (Real Ouellet) writes:

>I recently bought a fax modem (US Robotics Sportster) and would like to
>send faxes with it... but I have no atari FAX software. Is there some
>(public domain or else ) available? Where? At what price?

I'm not trying to plug them or anything, but the only FAX product I know
of for the atari ST/TT is STraight FAX! from Joppa Computer Products.
From the Joppa catalog dated 7/8/92, it says that STraight FAX! is
introductory priced at $69.95 (US). It now retails for $89.95, but can
be found for $69 from Toad Computers (among others).

From Joppa's ad:
- send/receive FAXes with an Atari ST/TT computer using any standard
	Class 2 FAX modem to/from a group III FAX machine at speeds up
	to 14400 baud.
- supports sending of ascii text files, image files, degas files, or fax
	files created by included printer drivers for calamus,
	pagestream, and fsm gdos.
- supports printing of received FAX files using standard fsm gdos
	printer drivers.
- 100 number dialing list, send and receive fax logs, automatic cover
	page generation, broadcast fax to multiple destinations,
	scheduled fax transmissions
- view up to four fax pages at a time with crop editing capability.
- full gem user interface with keyboard commands for menu and button
	selection, pop up menus and on-line context sensitive help.
- direct scanning of faxes using popular hand scanners.
- 1 MB of RAM required.  2 Mb of RAM and hard drive recommended.

Hope this helps you out.
From: djs@jet.uk (David J Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon Press coverage
Date: 5 Oct 92 08:27:40 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus

In <1992Oct1.153141.7579@cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:


>The latest (November) issue of the UK publication Personal Computer World has
>a three page article about the Falcon in it. Chris Cain gives it a very
>favourable review. The machine he had access to was a production machine
>... etc
I thought the review was pretty predictable in that it could have been written
even if Mr Cain never got his hands on a machine.  It says that the audio
is impressive, but this was based on the Atari demo at Dusseldorf.  He never
actually did any tests himself, it would seem.  There were no reports on
the D2D software, or on MultiTos (the screen shots appeared to be from a
machine running SingleTos).  There were no compatibility tests for ST software.

All in all, not very informative, I thought. But at least I would agree with
him that 899quid is too much for just 4Mb and 65MB with no monitor.  That's
400quid just for an extra 3Mb and a small disk.
-- 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| David Stevenson  djs@jet.uk   Tel: +44 235 465028 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
- Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not 
  be construed as an official comment from the JET project.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: selbyr@meena.cc.uregina.ca
Subject: How to view a GEM metafile
Date: 25 SEP 92 22:02:54 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

So, know I know what the GEM metafile is, but how do I see the graphis?
Is there a small pd program that will allow me to view the graphics easily?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg)
Subject: Re: Boston Computer Society shows Falcon 0
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 23:45:25 GMT

hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:

>I quite agree with some of your technical comments about the Falcon, Stefan.
> <...>
>still excited about it and anxiously await its release.  And why not?

>HOWEVER... whether you _are_ or are _not_ insecure, the childish ravings you
>have been posting here certainly don't herald a high maturity factor.  You
>don't like the Falcon?  Fine.  You are entitled to your own opinion as are
>others that _do_ like this promising machine.  Why can't you leave it at 
>that?

  I agree that the first posting was quite unnecessary (the one about
press coverage). But the second posting concerning the presentation in
Boston however wasn't, because the replied-to post contained severe
misinformation about the Falcon's capabilities. No company that want to
be taken seriously should make claims they cannot live up to.

>If some over zealous Atarian is cross-posting in the Amiga newsgroups, I
>apologize.  But flame HIM via email, and leave us be, OK?

  No problem. I won't bother you again, have fun with your Falcons. But
just do yourselves a favour and take that marketing hype with a big grain 
of salt ...

>___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
>____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov   GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________
--
Stefan Boberg - AP & EE student at Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden
 Author of LhA, ArjA and LhArcA. Co-author of Alien Breed, Project X ...
  EMail: boberg@lysator.liu.se, lha@augs.se           FIDO: 2:204/404.7
    UUCP:  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswe!team17!boberg
From: Peter.Kocourek@p13.f112.n100.z60.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SCSI II on Falcon
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:58:20 GMT

In a message of <28 Sep 92  16:15:26>, Stig Vidar Hovland (60:100/1) writes:

 SV> From: stigvi@Lise.Unit.NO (Stig Vidar Hovland)
 SV> Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
 SV> 
 SV> Can someone tell me what kind of plug Falcon have for the SCSI
 SV> port. I know it have 50 pins, but is it a ordinary or a mini delta
 SV> ribbon and is it male or female?

Here is some information from a information file about the Falcon, from
Atari Benelux:


SCSI CONNECTOR (flat 50 pins SCSI II Female)

Pin   Signal                           Pin   Signal

1-10  GND                              37    Not Connected
11    +5V                              38    +5V
12-14 Not Connected                    39    Not Connected
15-25 GND                              40    GND
26    SCSI 0                           41    ATN
27    SCSI 1                           42    GND
28    SCSI 2                           43    BSY
29    SCSI 3                           44    ACK
30    SCSI 4                           45    RST
31    SCSI 5                           46    MSG
32    SCSI 6                           47    SEL
33    SCSI 7                           48    C/D
34    Parity                           49    REQ
35-36 GND                              50    I/O

It appears though, that on Sun and NeXT computers, pin 11 is at GND, not
+5V... so be careful in connecting anything...


YHS:QSI!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Toad Computers
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 03:45:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.140627.8875@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov writes:
>In article 7135@cs.mun.ca, avp@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Anthony Paul) writes:
>>Well today marks 5 weeks from the day I ordered from Toad Computers.
>>
>>I had heard only good things about this company.  I seriously
>>doubt I will ever order from them again.  I ordered a hard drive case
>>and 2 lynx games, all of which I was told were in stock.
>>
>>Maybe there is some problem that is beyond their control?

One "obvious" thing that comes to mind:  Customs & Excise?  This STuff
has to cross the border, and the Canadian Feds. have been setting up a
variety of regulations to try to stem the flood of "cross-border
shopping."  I would be totally unsurprised to hear that the STuff is
sitting at Canada Customs, and that you'll be hearing from them soon,
asking if you want to:
  a) Come down and pick it up (800 miles away, more than likely)
or
  b) Pay a customs broker to pick it up and ship it on to you.

This used to commonly happen with stuff shipped by UPS; the latest GST
extraction regs. are starting to apply this sort of thing to stuff
shipped by regular post too...

A few years ago I ordered a bundle of aged 8-bit stuff on clearance,
and wound up paying more for the brokerage fee than I paid for the
actual goods themselves.  (Still was a reasonable deal, tho!)

-- 
Christopher Browne
cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca
University of Ottawa
Master of System Science Program
From: bandit@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (David Bazzelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TDD
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 00:37:39 CDT
Organization: Minas Tirith BBS (Public Access Usenet for New Orleans)

  Hello, do they have a proram out that would allow a Atari ST to 
communicate with a standard TDD??  Any info would help..
From: gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: XBIOS function to set floopy seek rate
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:15:50 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I seem to recall that with TOS 1.04 there was an XBIOS function
added to change a floppy drives seek rate.  Am I right?  If so,
what is its function number and name.  What parameters does it
require?

-- 
David P. Forrai
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1448b
Internet: gt1448b@prism.gatech.edu
From: an938@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George II Lenzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: monitor burned away.
Date: 29 Sep 1992 19:13:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


	If you have your ST's owner's manual, take a look in the 
back.  There are pinouts for all ports including the video port.
What you will want to use are the pins labeled: Ground, and
General Purpose output<---(this is a composite video out!)
the only problem is trying to find a 13 pin DIN connector.  I 
once heard that it was possible to cut a standard PC board from
Radio Snack to size and solder some wires onto it as pins, but 
this you must try at your own risk.  My local ST dealer was able 
to provide me with the 13 pin DIN, so you might check that out 
first.
	You might use a VCR to connect your ST to a TV set.
admitedly this is the poorest picture, but if all else fails...

-- 
"I'll let you in on a little secret.
	The whole universe is totally INSANE!!!!"
						Mr. Natural
From: v5914ane@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Steve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: No red in monitor
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:49:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Does anyone have any Idea on why my atari color monitor lost the red in the 
picture??
From: an938@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George II Lenzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: 520 ST inside an IBM clone case?
Date: 29 Sep 1992 19:23:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


	I was wondering if I could fit the motherboard of a 520
ST, two SS disk drives, a Serial port expansion, a MIDI thru
expansion, and provisions for connecting an IBM styled keyboard
into an IBM box.  Just wondering, that's all.

						thanx,
						George II Lenzer

-- 
"I'll let you in on a little secret.
	The whole universe is totally INSANE!!!!"
						Mr. Natural

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: Mike Stramba <stramba@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: gdb on atari?
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:43:04 GMT
Summary: does it exist ? .. part of GNU C ?


Is there a GDB for the ATARI?

Is it part of the GNU C package?
Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Date: Sunday, 27 Sep 1992 17:56:51 MEZ
From: Bjarne Pohlers <POHLERB@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: GNU C 2.2x available yet?


In article <ntomczak.717476481@vega>, ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N
Tomczak-Jaegermann) says:
>gcc 2.2.2 for ST is currently at PatchLevel 3.  It was available
>some two days after FSF release.
>
>There is a series of updates on a.a which contain - among other
>things Atari specific patches (not very extensive) to FSF distribution.
>Look somewhere in 20'th.  The last one is from August this year.
>
Where are these update-files? I just can find the files until update20.zo
(atari/gnustuff/tos/updates) and they are to build gcc2.1 and old versions of
the libs.
Thanks,
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From: anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: serial2 >19k2?
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:26:48 GMT
Reply-To: anisko@usdtsg.UUCP ()
Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton

In article <1992Oct3.112739.24532@mcshh.Hanse.DE> dk3uz@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Edmund Ramm) writes:
>
>   Is it possible, to operate the SERIAL2 port (the one driven by an SCC)
>on a MEGA/STE at Baud rates >19200bps? If yes, how would I go about it, please?

   Check out the terminalprogram ConNect (up to version 1.60 now I think).
It will let you use the MegaSTe's Modem 1, Modem 2, Serial 2, or Midi
ports.  Modem 2 will go up to 153600 baud, and I believe Serial 2
will go up to 125000 baud...

					Robert Anisko
					anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com
From: dumgrunt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joel Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: TOS chip pinouts
Keywords: TOS, chips, pinouts
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:34:57 GMT
Reply-To: dumgrunt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joel Banks)
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: dumgrunt@sneezy.cc.utexas.edu

Does anyone know the pinouts for the 6-chip TOS ROMs?  I want to make a board
that will let me mount and switch between two different ROM sets.  I know it
sounds strange, but there are a few quirks in TOS 1.0 that I actually want to
use from time to time.  From what I've seen, there's a "chip enable" pin that
should let me toggle between the two sets with a simple double throw switch.
If I'm right, and you know which pin is which, please let me know.  If I'm
wrong, please let me know also.  :-)

Joel Banks
dumgrunt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: osoelgaultier+@CMU.EDU (Stefan Monnier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Replacing the floppy on a 1040st
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:35:11 GMT
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st.tech: 5-Oct-92 Replacing the
floppy on a 1.. Pharmakeus Ubik@netcom.c (352)

>     I'm helping out a friend with his crippled ST.  The floppy drive chews
> disks, and therefore needs to be replaced.  My local atari dealer wants $129
> for a replacement, while 3.5" 720k Teac drives are going for $50.  Can anyone 
> offer some advice on replacing the drive?  Is it just a plug and go, or did
> atari make it difficult?

> Han Shan Anderson



It's rather plug and go !

The only problem I encountered (with 3 upgrades) is
mechanical: ctual drives are smaller, so that you may have
to add some fancy picec of anything to use place (to fix the whole)

There can be problems if the old floppy is single-sided, but
I don't know anything about it !

	Stefan

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