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From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Date: 27 Sep 92 09:27:25 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Date: 23 Sep 92 07:24:34 GMT
Message-Id: <2dD802rK230r01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In article <1992Sep20.095850.11258@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu
(A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

> A DOS machine is prety stupid -- it doesn't have to run other applications
> at the same time as a QIC-40/QIC-80 driver.  It runs only the driver.
> 
> The main deficiency of this under a UNIX or UNIX-like OS should be obvious:
> Rather than the driver being part of the archive software, and reading from
> a static file system image (ie: directly from the disk/file being backed up),
> a UNIX driver would have to give enough time to tar (or some other archive
> program) and the disk I/O subsystems (file system, VFS, system call
> interface,
> pager, and disk device driver) and still *always* be just about to
> write the
> next block when the tape drive needs it.  The driver wouldn't have
> enough
> influenc on the scheduler to distinguish "tar" from "xtank", since
> both are
> user processes.  Thus either an enforced single user mode with
> limited
> running of daemons, or suspension of all non-archive related processes
> during
> tape access would have to occur.

ISC 2.2.1 supports my Irwin Floppy Tape.  Since this came in the form as a 
new driver in its own patch, either the hooks to the scheduler were already
in the O/S or it is unnecessary  (An interesting note is that the original
distribution claimed to support many different Floppy Tapes but did not.
I'll bet Irwin supplied the driver to ISC.  The new driver makes not claims
at supporting any other manufacturers drives)

If I had to make a guess, I would say that the time critical operations are
performed in the driver without releasing the CPU.  I believe the only thing
that can interrupt the 386BSD interrupt handler is another interrupt.  If it 
should raise the interrupt fence, you should not be interrupted.  I would think
that ISC would be similar.

The Irwin Floppy Tape drive is not a streamer.  It is necessary to preformat
the tapes into 512 bytes blocks.  Each block can be written without impacting
the block after it on the tape.  You can do random access operations.  Think of
it as an incredibly slow floppy.  The point is that if the data for the
next block does not arrive in time, the drive simply has to reposition
before
writing it. 

-- 
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		     | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
                     | what is wrong with it.
From: clayton@cc.gatech.edu (R. Clayton)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Xsun problems.
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:20:36 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Date: 29 Sep 92 16:36:28 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep29.163628.374@cc.gatech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I've been running x11 r5 patch level 13 (compiled with gcc 1.40) for five or so
months now on a sun ipc under sunos 4.1.1 with an 8-bit frame buffer.  I've had
no problems up until a few days ago when Xsun started failing (taken from
/usr/adm/messages):

  KERNEL DATA ACCESS TIMEOUT
  pid 178, `Xsun': Data fault
  kernel read fault at addr=0xff00c010, pme=0xf700e400
  Sync Error Reg 20<TIMEOUT>
  pc=0xf80c90fc, sp=0xf82bac90, psr=0x4000c3, context=0x0
  g1-g7: f80c90cc, 4, 0, 0, f82bb000, f8155000, f8155000
  Begin traceback... sp = f82bac90
  Called from f8069d4c, fp=f82bad00, args=1b00 1b 438 360 f814ca64 0
  Called from f8066db0, fp=f82bad60, args=ff0d8784 3 1 8000e5 f82bb000 4000e5
  Called from f803bcc0, fp=f82badc0, args=f82016dc 4 0 1 f813d5a8 ff0d8784
  Called from f803d368, fp=f82bae20, args=f82016dc f8204238 0 4000e0 f820b128 8
  Called from f8042a9c, fp=f82bae80, args=ff64ef00 6 6 f8204238 f82016dc 18
  Called from f810a57c, fp=f82baee0, args=a 0 28 200 f8204238 8a
  Called from f8005600, fp=f82baf58, args=10400 f82bafb4 ffffa000 f75e4243 2 0
  Called from a24bc, fp=f7fff790, args=0 0 2 f75e4244 eeeeeeee 0
  End traceback...
  panic: system bus error timeout

  syncing file systems... [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1]
  [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] give up! 
  00000 low-memory static kernel pages
  00774 additional static and sysmap kernel pages
  00000 dynamic kernel data pages
  00088 additional user structure pages
  00000 segmap kernel pages
  00000 segvn kernel pages
  00000 current user process pages
  00033 user stack pages
  00895 total pages (895 chunks)

  dumping to vp ff040d2c, offset 58264
  895 total pages, dump succeeded
  rebooting...

Initially Xsun would fail sometime after X was up and running.  Now it fails
almost immediately after xinit starts. Here's a example stack trace from an
immediate failure (this example doesn't correspond to the example above):

  sy dbx /usr/local/X11/bin/Xsun
  Reading symbolic information...
  Read 4353 symbols
  program terminated by signal BUS (hardware error)
  (dbx) where
  mfbTileArea32Copy() at 0xa2800
  mfbPaintWindow() at 0xa40d0
  miSpritePaintWindowBackground() at 0xcccec
  miWindowExposures() at 0xc0b4c
  MapWindow() at 0x2d3ec
  InitRootWindow() at 0x27f40
  main() at 0x1f670
  (dbx) quit

I'm back to using openwindows, which is running fine.  Any ideas?  Please mail
replies since I infrequently read this news group.  Thanks.

R. Clayton
clayton@cc.gatech.edu
From: ellis@athena.mit.edu (Steve Ellis)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: xdm and IBM RS6000
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:09:00 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:18:57 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep30.171857.8096@athena.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


    I am having a problem with xdm on a IBM RS6000 (AIX3.2.2).  When
running in "debug" mode, everything appears normal, and the X terminals
work as expected. However, when running in the default daemon mode, the
login window appears on the X terminal, but upon logging in, the login
window disappears, but no X session is started. After 20 seconds, the
login window re-appears. Any pointers on what to look for, or specific
compile options required would be appreciated.
From: ken@bristol.com (Ken Blackwell)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: HPGL for X-Windows
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:52:28 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Bristol Technology Inc.

Date: 29 Sep 92 00:18:46 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep29.001846.1435@bristol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

|> 	I am trying to find an HPGL library for X. i.e. is their any way
|> 	to convert X graphics/text to HPGL or does such a converter exsist,
|> 	either commercial or otherwise. 

We are about to ship Xprinter Release 2.0 in a couple of weeks.  This 
product is a PostScript and PCL5/HPGL library for X-Windows applications.
Sounds like it is pretty much what you want.

Try info@bristol.com for more information.
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Drawing in a window border?
Date: 1 Oct 92 08:17:16 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: 29 Sep 92 03:56:42 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep29.035642.27818@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <DRMRES27.92Sep24185443@c32.ucs.usl.edu>, drmres27@ucs.usl.edu (Mejia Pablo) writes:

> Is it possible to draw into a window's border?  If so how?

No.  You get a similar effect by drawing into a pixmap and setting it
as the window's border-pixmap, but this is usually wasteful because it
means keeping around a pixmap as big as the outside size of the window,
even though only a small portion of it every gets used.  About the only
alternative is to draw into the root window with a GC whose
subwindow-mode is set to IncludeInferiors, but this will let you draw
anywhere, and requires that you figure out which portions of your
window's border are visible if you wish to restrict your drawing
properly...and requires that you grab the server to avoid races.  There
is also nothing corresponding to an Expose event for the border.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: slm@cs.arizona.edu (Sandy Miller)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X11R5 for ESIX 4.0
Date: 28 Sep 92 09:07:24 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

Date: 25 Sep 92 21:29:28 GMT
Message-Id: <22798@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Has anyone built X11R5 for ESIX 4.0?  If so, do you have a working
config file that I could copy?  Or is there one available at some
ftp site?  I would really appreciate any help.

-sandy
From: ls@inf.rl.ac.uk (Lakshmi Sastry)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: PHIGS/PEX -HELP
Date: 4 Oct 92 22:23:50 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Department, U.K.

Date: 2 Oct 92 13:35:57 GMT
Message-Id: <12796@privet.rl.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.x

Why doesn't PHIGS in X environment work for a monochrome machine?
The prog. works fine with a colour machine.
Is there a way to make PHIGS recognise it shouldn't try to get non-existent colourmaps?

The error message I get is:
PHIGS error -168 in OPEN WORKSTATION: Ignoring function, cannot open
workstation on a read-only visual with no predefined colormap properties

Quick look through Tom Gaskin's book doesn't seem to give the answer.



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Lakshmi
From: sjm@cs.arizona.edu (Susan J. Miller)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: How to NOT use XtConfigureWidget?
Date: 28 Sep 92 09:28:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

Date: 25 Sep 92 22:51:59 GMT
Message-Id: <22809@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'm working on an application that includes several calls to
XtConfigureWidget to change to value of the XtNx resource.  
After reading in O'Reilly volume 4 that applications should not 
call XtConfigureWidget, I tried changing these calls to XtSetArg,
XtSetValues calls, but the XtNx resource only got changed some
of the time.

Is it bad practice to try to change the value of XtNx?  Can 
someone tell me why it only works some of the time?

Thanks,
--susan
From: wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Hansen)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Newsletter from Andrew Consortium
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:57:48 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 11:41:12 -0400
Message-Id: <9210021541.AA02056@expo.lcs.mit.edu>

The September, 1992 edition of the Andrew View, newsletter of the Andrew
Consortium, is available for anonymous ftp from 

	emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu  (128.2.45.40)

as ./newsletters/92Sept.d.   Subdirectories ASCII and PostScript contain
versions for the ATK-deprived.

If you haven't got ftp access, please send mail to 
	info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu

Fred Hansen
Director, Andrew Consortium

PS:  You can try AUIS remotely.  For instructions:
	finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu
From: mpb@biostat.med.umich.edu (Mark Becker)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: MacX spontaneously quitting?
Date: 26 Sep 92 20:08:37 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Michigan Health Sciences, Ann Arbor

Date: 24 Sep 92 12:15:15 GMT
Message-Id: <j+y-Z2+@engin.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.windows.x


In article <Bv1FtM.87v@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
|> Has anyone had problems with MacX spontaneously quitting?  This has
|> happened to me about three times now ... usually when I'm not sitting down
|> actually using my Mac, but when a few clients are open.  MacX quits with
|> no error message whatsoever, and it appears that the Finder itself also
|> reloads (I've watched it happen).  Other open applications aren't
|> affected.
|> 
|> Relevant info:  MacX 1.1.7, Mac Q700 8/220, System 7.0.1 + Tune-Up 1.1.1,
|> MacTCP 1.1, Asante ethernet board, file sharing is on.  Running three
|> color rootless clients (xterm, dclock, xbiff).  MacX has a 2000K RAM
|> allocation, of which it uses around 1260K.  Also, I'm running a lot
|> of extensions which haven't previously given me problems.  Notably,
|> that includes NFS/Share, but at most times no NFS volume is mounted.
|> 
|> 
|> -John
|> ---
|> John O'Malley           /    User Services           /  Purdue University
|> omalley@cc.purdue.edu  /  Instructional Labs Group  /  Computing Center

I've noticed a slightly different, but possibly related, problem: I've
had OzTeX quit spontaneously, without error messages or warnings, when
both MacX and OzTeX are open.  Other open applications are not affected,
but it does appear that the Finder does reload.

System: IIci 20/320, System 7.0.1 + Tune-Up 1.1.1
MacTCP 1.1, Asante ethernet board, and MacX running color, rootless.

Available memory does not appear to be the problem - 7mb is set aside for MacX
and 2.5mb is set aside for OzTeX.  To the best of my knowledge, neither application
has been near its' respective limit prior to one of these spontaneous
abortions.

Mark Becker
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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: imake and psroff
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:18:00 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany

Date: 30 Sep 1992 15:32:57 GMT
Message-Id: <1achb9INN1l4@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <Bv9Du2.1F3@atherton.com>, shakeel@s3tech.com (Shakeel Mahate)
writes:
|> The variable TROFF has been assigned the utility "psroff"
|> Is psroff public domain software?
|> Where can I get it?

(This isn't really an answer to your question.) Whether psroff is public
domain or not I don't know - I guess it is not. However, it is available
without charge. On the other hand, the fact that Imake.tmpl defines
TroffCmd as psroff does not mean your are forced to use psroff for
formatting - it's just the opposite. For example, I have the lines

#ifndef TroffCmd
#define TroffCmd groff -Tdvi -E
#endif

in our site.def file, which is very useful because it produces DVI output
and we can print DVI files directly on our heavy-duty laser printer.


|> I am trying to use imake to build makefiles for a non X application
|> software?
|> Has anyone in the networld tried this before?

Yes, this is possible - most likely even without fiddling around with
Imake's configuration files. Even if you don't use X functions or header
files, the -I and -L flags for compiler and linker specifying some X paths
won't harm. And you could do a lot more nice stuff with Imake: For example
I have written Imake rules helping to prepare documents with TeX, including
automatic generation of PostScript figures from images of certain formats.


|> How does one build a SimpleProgramTarget with debug option on, or
|> for that matter any ProgramTarget?

Add the line
CDEBUGFLAGS = -g
to the Imakefile or start the compilation with "make CDEBUGFLAGS=-g".


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From: goodsenj@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (John Goodsen)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re-mapping windows as iconified
Date: 27 Sep 92 23:32:38 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Software Engineering Institute

Date: 25 Sep 92 08:04:13 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep25.080413.20374@sei.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


This is posted for a friend.  Please respond directly to him
and not to the net.   Thanks.  Send reply to:

Steve Murphy
smurph@dalmatian.com

and to myself:  John Goodsen - goodsenj@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu

thanks in advance :-)

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I'm withdrawing windows based on XQueryTree
( to include ALL WINDOWS for ALL PROCESSES ) but when
I want to remap them I can't get icons to come back.
They come back as real windows instead of icons!

I got all the other windows withdrawing and mapping just fine.

Tried a bunch of stuff but no luck.  Any help is appreciated...
----
From: pullin@mail.physics.utah.edu (Jorge Pullin)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Trackertool for X?
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:40:23 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Utah, Department of Physics

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 15:18:33 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Oct2.151833.28519@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hello

I want to know if there is available any small code that would make a 
graphical sketch in an X window of x,y points while they are being 
generated. There is a routine called trackertool that does this, but
only seems to work on Sunview.

Please  reply by email, I can summarize if there is interest.

Regards.
Jorge
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From: $MZN%PCCJES2.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu ("Pickering, Roger P.")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: XView Toolkit and OLWM Window Manager
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:30:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9210021953.AA23788@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date:    Fri, 02 Oct 92 15:52 EDT

Dear Sirs,

   Please send me some information how I can obtain the source code for the
XView Toolkit and OLWM Window Manager.

Thankyou,
Roger Pickering
From: unislc!trk@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU (TR Krishnan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: PC Based X-Server
Date: 26 Sep 92 09:27:13 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC

Date: 23 Sep 92 19:44:34 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep23.194434.28393@unislc.uucp>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Does anyone know about the availability/source of the PC based X-Server.
Thank You.
From: tracey@cvgis.prime.com (Tracey Bernath)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: PostScript file -> X11 bitmap
Date: 5 Oct 92 07:40:38 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computervision GIS (Toronto)

Date: 4 Oct 92 17:04:32 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Oct4.170432.3771@cvgis.prime.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <yho.718062973@cunews> yho@janet.carleton.ca (Y. Ho(S.Kennedy)) writes:
>Any program to convert PostScript file to X11 bitmap file ???
>

Yep, get ghostscript (2.5.2 I think) from any GNU archive site, and configure
it to include the pbm devices.  You can then use ghostscript to write
pbm files, and pbmplus (from the X11 tapes) to convert to bitmaps.

Tracey Bernath

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From: TRH108@psuvm.psu.edu (1)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Changing a drawable's coordinate system
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:07:44 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Penn State University

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:29:56 EDT
Message-Id: <92272.112956TRH108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hi there -
I am using X11r5, and I want to change the coordinate system so that the
origin is in the bottom left corner, with +ve x going right and +ve y going
up.  I am doing a lot of graphics work, and the added transformations are
becoming a pain.  Just point me in the right direction, ie where to look, what
manual.  Thanks in advance for your help.  Please email responses.

Tom Hicks
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Finding resource name
Date: 5 Oct 92 00:26:49 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Date: 2 Oct 92 17:06:38 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Oct2.170638.9957@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I am trying to run Sun's calendar manager and have it display
onto a Sony system. Unfortunatly it can't find the proper 
open look cursor font. How would I go about finding out what 
the resouce name is that calls this font so that I can redefine it
to something that the Sony has?

Here is the error message.
XView warning: Cannot load font '-sun-open look cursor-----*-*-*-*-*-*-sunolcursor-1' (Font package)
XView warning: Unable to find OPEN LOOK cursor font (Cursor package)
XView warning: invalid object (not a pointer), xv_get
X Error (intercepted):  BadFont
  Request Major code 94 ()
  Request Minor code
  ResourceID 0x0
  Error Serial #50
  Current Serial #54
Abort (core dumped)


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From: rohrbach@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Axel Rohrbacher [MW])
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: xdm chooser question
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:28:13 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:52:50 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep28.155250.3910@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hallo,
we are running about 15 different workstations (sun,vax,siemens).
On each, a local xdm and a local X-server is running.
Now, we wish to choose the working host (may be a high performance machine)
during login, so the local workstation behaves like a X-Terminal. (Of
course, this can be done with rlogin, but this is time-consuming.)

I've read the xdm-manual, and 'chooser' seems to be, what we look for.
But I can't get chooser to work; all I ever get is the same standard
login mask of xdm.

Have I misunderstood the concept or is it a mistake in my configuration
files (Xacces etc.) ?

Any hints are appreciated. Thanks


Axel Rohrbacher                rohrbach@ccksun3.cck.uni-kl.de
CIM-Centrum                    rohrbach@131.246.9.194
Universitaet Kaiserslautern
From: bjoerns@stud.cs.uit.no (Bjoern Stabell)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Blinking
Date: 5 Oct 92 06:54:36 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway

Date: 4 Oct 92 16:23:03 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Oct4.162303.29887@news.uit.no>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x.intrinsics

In article <1992Oct1.204222.13721@relay.nswc.navy.mil>, dnguyen@xobu.nswc.navy.mil (D. Nguyen) writes:
] Hi all,
] Does any one know how to implement blinking in X ? An obvious solution
] is just too costly. Thanks.

Obvious?  Are you thinking of redrawing with a different color each
'blink'?  What about drawing in a read/write allocated color and changing
the color to get a blinking effect?

Regards,
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