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From: wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
Subject: XDM/Xterm problems on startup
Summary: no more xterm
Keywords: xterm, X11, xdm
Organization: Free Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:43:20 GMT

	Ever since I've upgraded to Linux kernel version 0.98pl3 (and now pl4)
I've been unable to get xdm to work properly. Actually, I'm not sure whether
this problem lies with xdm or xterm - when I boot the system with xdm enabled,
everything works fine up to when I attempt to start an xterm. At this point,
the disk makes noise for a couple of seconds and then absolutely nothing
happens. Going back over the .xsession-errors files in users' home dirs, they
contain the error

xterm: Error 14, errno 19: No such device

When I start X from xinit off of a VC, everything works fine.
Can anyone shed some light on this strange problem?

(for all I know, it might not have anything to do with the kernel - it could 
be init or something, though I rather doubt it)
From: davidho@dopey.rc.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Can linux run on IBM PS/60? any other can do?
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:03:30 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux,local
Organization: University of Arizona

Does anybody know if there is any Unix system can run on IBM PS2/60?
I heard of SCO Xenix 286? How good is it? Can it run X?
 
Do I have any other choice?
Any comment is appreciated. Please send to my email address.
 
davidho@dopey.rc.arizona.edu
 
David Ho
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: modem help
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:28:47 GMT

Jim.Danley@f20.n233.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Danley) writes:

>ST > Anyway I'm trying to setup the inittab so that I can have a    
>   > dial-up.  
>   
>Scott,

>Run, don't walk, to tsx-11.mit.edu and grab

>    /pub/linux/sources/sbin/gettyps202.tar.Z

>It includes everything you'll need including src, Makefile, man pages,
>and a
>very good description on how it all works.  I was especially pleased
>with
>uugetty which allows me to use one modem on /dev/ttys2 for dialing in
>AND out
>with one config.  I spent a few hours with this package tonight and am
>very
>pleased with the outcome.  Check it out.
Just make sure you use the right syntax, though - the tty line and the baud
rate are the other way around from normal getty - I forgot this and
ended up having to sector edit my inittab file from DOS (eurgh)

Let's be careful out there !

Cos !
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,rec.games.mud.lp
From: ajake@mits.mdata.fi (Jarkko Aitti)
Subject: Re: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux...
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 13:58:33 GMT
Keywords: Linux LPmud Memory

In article <ins295b.721187186@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Humphrey) writes:
>aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis) writes:
>
>>I am using Linux 0.98pl3 w/TCP/IP compiled in on a 386/25
>>with 8 megs of RAM.  For the last few days i've been
>>trying to get LPmud 3.1.2 to work, but to no avail.
>
>>I usually get the message:
>>dev_rint: dropping packets due to lack of memory
>>and then I get the message:
>>accept: out of memory

>	Yep, this happens because ( I think (I'm not a real kernel
>hacker yet but I'm getting there)) failed accepts do not release inodes
>correctly and hence the system runs out of inodes and you get a out of
>memory error and then the mud gets grumpy and crashes. (Probably quite
>understandably too :)
>
>Ummm, has anyone else noticed this behaviour? And if so is anyone
>looking into it?
>
>--
>Andrew Humphrey
>ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
>ins295b@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
>humpy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
>
>"And on the seventh day He created Linux"


Hmmm, and i should have asked same questions before to save myself from lots
of headache and 1001 driver re-compilation:)

I also tried different mallocs and also without gcc's internal..and got
got exactly same problems (well, with my 4 megs and 8 megs swap it only runs
ab. 2 minutes)

So, i'm crossposting this also to linux group if there's someone who could
help. (hmm, it's allready a crosspost;-)

I'm using cdlib driver and mudlib, which is a bit different (not much), and
i wonder should they work together at all, there is lots of bugs in mudlib
and i wonder that if there is someone who has patched his to get it running
like it should..(first one (which was easy to fix) was wrong name to some
STATUE_WHEN_LINKDEAD or something, but there's lot more of them)
--

  Name: Jarkko J. Aitti     Mail: ajake@mits.mdata.fi

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chengb@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bruce)
Subject: Bash help
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:36:30 GMT

Hi, I need to know how to get a type of alias to work in bash:

like in csh, you can do: alias dir 'ls -laF \!* |more'
	to pass the parameter
in bash, I tried: alias dir='ls -laF $* |more'
and it wouldn't take the parameter correctly.

BTW, is there CSH port to Linux?

thanks,
Bruce
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From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems with XFree86 and S3 server
Date: 14 Nov 92 01:23:39 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

In article <JEM.92Nov13120846@lk-hp-6.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
>In article <BxL9JL.2JE@news.iastate.edu> mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke) writes:
>
>>server (i.e.  no XS3) everything   works right except  that  the mouse
>>driver is not being loaded. I have a 3-button Microsoft mouse on COM1.
>>Could someone tell me the Xconfig setting for this mouse?
>
>There is no mouse driver for serial mice. The X server talks directly
>to the mouse via the serial drivers. Your Xconfig should say something
>like
>
>Microsoft     "/dev/ttys0"
>

I managed to get the mouse running. I forgot that I had changed it 
to COM2 after a system reconfiguration. Also, the serial ports on
my machine start at /dev/ttys1, so I needed "Microsoft	"/dev/ttys2"
in my Xconfig. I still can't get the color server to work properly,
however. It comes up, but the characters are just blocks. Some characters
make a block in the foreground color, and some in the background color.
I seem to recall that someone else had the same problem, but don't know
what the solution was. Also, when I move a window the background is
not refreshed. It just leaves a ghost of the windoow in the old location.
(The ghost is white, if this helps at all).

I also have a question about the xterms. When I run more or cat it
comes up with a message about something to do with tcp/ip. (I'm not
in front of my machine right now, and don't remember what the exact
message is). Do I *need* to compile in TCP/IP to run X properly?
I get the same behavior with and without the -pn option to startx.

Thanks for all your help.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Help! Linux 0.98 crashes when accessing MFM disk
Keywords: crash mfm
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:56:54 GMT

On my computer linux crashes when accessing floppy disk
and hard disk (mfm, western digital controller) at the
same time. It seems to happen when one of both accesses
is caused by a sync. This is somewhat annoying since I
had to re-install the damaged file system already three
times!

I used to kill the update process before accessing floppies
but since I updated to pl 4, the ps program does not work
any more (not even after ps -U) and I did not yet succeed
in recompiling ps either. Yet the bug is still there in pl 4
and now my filesystem is again gone.

Is there any known problem in the handler of mfm hard disks?
Or maybe even a patch available somewhere?

Klaus Hartnegg
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,rec.games.mud.lp
From: ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux...
Keywords: Linux LPmud Memory
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:46:26 GMT

aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis) writes:

>Hello there!

>I am using Linux 0.98pl3 w/TCP/IP compiled in on a 386/25
>with 8 megs of RAM.  For the last few days i've been
>trying to get LPmud 3.1.2 to work, but to no avail.

>I usually get the message:
>dev_rint: dropping packets due to lack of memory
>and then I get the message:
>accept: out of memory
	Yep, this happens because ( I think (I'm not a real kernel
hacker yet but I'm getting there)) failed accepts do not release inodes
correctly and hence the system runs out of inodes and you get a out of
memory error and then the mud gets grumpy and crashes. (Probably quite
understandably too :)

>Can someone PLEASE give me some advice? I
>am quite stuck.

	Wait until the probs with the kernel are sorted out, then this
prob will just disappear.

Ummm, has anyone else noticed this behaviour? And if so is anyone
looking into it?

--
Andrew Humphrey
ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
ins295b@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
humpy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

"And on the seventh day He created Linux"
From: jem@calypso.uucp (Jonathan Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linus and his virtual beer
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:49:16 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

In article <721333758snz@morgan.demon.co.uk> tony@morgan.demon.co.uk (Tony Kidson) writes:
>
>In article <1dlfb4INNs9j@corax.udac.uu.se> sverkerw@csd.uu.se writes:
>
>>df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) writes:
>>>Ok, I've got to ask... what is VIRTUAL beer? (beer that isn't really there?,
>>>or is it just virtually beer -- that's it someone sent him home-brew)
>
>
>And where can I ftp to to get some?

We have implement the GNU pitcherd software at vpizza.com;  after being
faxed your virtual pizza (see .sig below), send the authorization code
that accompanies your pizza to the pitcherd server (on port 6969) for
a pint.  Please use the alternate port 4242 if you are English and, hence
prefer you beer warm.

jem.

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From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X11 Won't Return to Text Mode
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:59:25 GMT
	<Nov06.194729.79509@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland

In article <Nov06.194729.79509@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner) writes:
> Nntp-Posting-Host: jenkins.lance.colostate.edu

> In article <Nov.4.07.12.16.1992.20165@pilot.njin.net>, ktompkin@pilot.njin.net (Ken Tompkins) writes:
> |> Just to add my name to the list....I recently got
> |> X11 working -- an Icelandic Saga in length -- and
> |> when I exit from it the screen turns black and I
> |> have to reboot.
...
> Same problem - similar setup.  Trident 8900c seems to be the problem.
> Any solutions, anyone?

Add me to the list - only with a Tseng ET400 Hicolor (unbranded "vga
ultra") card.  Returning to 80x25 text mode works but corrupts several
font characters; returning to any other text mode doesn't restore
timings correctly resulting in unreadable flicker (my monitor has
fixed frequencies and cannot synch to the mode left by X11).

Btw, my old graphics card - a Trident 8900c v4 - restored text
perfectly (although X was unable to program interlace correctly on the
older version of the chipset, so I couldn't use the 1024x768 mode).
So it's not a problem with the X setup (X11v1.1 running under 0.97pl6,
for what it's worth).

Oh, one other thing. The only reason I was ever using text mode was to
see kernel printk messages, so I hacked together a 10 line syslogd to
pipe them to /dev/console for xconsole to display - works fine.  I
know HJ has incorporated the syslog.c logging functions into libc4.2,
but does anyone know whether there is a proper (official?) syslogd
linux port anywhere?  I've got the bsd source but there's no point in
reinventing the wheel if there is already a standard Linux version out
there in netland.

Thanks,
 Stephen Tweedie.
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Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
From: probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help needed for lex
Keywords: lex
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:55:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: kitty.1drdu0INNmdp
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: kitty.ksu.ksu.edu

harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang) writes:

>Hi netters:

>	I am looking for lex for linux!  Where I should go to find it,
>	src or bin?  Many thanks in advance!

>	--Harry

Try gnu's flex product. It is available in source from prep.ai.mit.edu
(or its many mirror sites) in the pub/gnu/flex-2.3.7.tar.Z
file.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pcrichar@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Pat Richard)
Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:07:10 GMT

In article <96973@netnews.upenn.edu> dsimon@stipple.seas.upenn.edu (Derron Simon) writes:
>Hi.  I recently purchased a 486DX33 and want to run Linux on a 50 meg parition.
>My problem is that after loading Linux from the latest SLS disks (.98pl1, I
>ftp'ed them 3 days ago) I get "CMOS checksum bad" errors after every reboot.
>Usually the portion of CMOS that gets trashed is the Hard Drive information!

Yes, I have also had this problem running SLS .98 pl1, though I somehow
feel it wasn't to do with SLS (?). When I used mtools, and then re-booted,
the hard disk info was lost. It was my first time using mtools, and
I didn't mount the hd, so I figured that was the problem. But now someone
else seems to have this problem, so now I'm not sure. BTW, the start-up beep
got screwed too, and it's never been the same (could be the error beep, but
I can't seem to find a config. error in the CMOS, and I can't tell if its
the normal BEEP or the error BEEP becuase it got mesed up).

-- 

Smoke another, brother... and THANX for 'whatever' ! 
Pat C. Richard, 
pcrichar@cayley.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: SLS update
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:46:26 GMT

Two things: from the HISTORY file.

921105: a4:zfix.taz: Hopefully fixed the permission problems in root.
        b5:ghostscr.taz: Ghostscript compiled with most drivers.


The first fixes the "shell-init" and "permission denied" problem,
assuming it occurs in the "a" series.  I really don't know why
this is happening.  Someone who does a full install let me know
if it still happens.

Ghostscript has no fonts, but the b5 disk was half empty anyways.

Peter.

PS:  In case someone wonders why SLS is so designed to be floppy
bound, I don't back up my system.  If there is a major problem,
I backup my data and reinstall.  This is why I developed SLS: at
first I tried for months to get others interested in it.  But no
go, even with the enticement of being able to distribute it for
a fee.  Finally, I did it myself, and got Softlanding to distribute
it for $3.25/disk.  This is a money-losing proposition, mostly because
you can't advertise since it is to expensive, and there are no 
barriers/restrictions on those buying it.  Thus you will never
get a large outfit to send you an order for 30 units.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: multi-user linux games
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:46:49 GMT

jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:

>With BBS software for linux starting to come around, 
>I was wondering if anyone has successfully ported
>any of the traditional UNIX multi-user games or has
>written their own?  Has anyone given a look to porting
>Empire or Conquer?

I've compiled XConquer 5.5 (sources from export.lcs.mit.edu)
which comes with a curses-based version, but it's pretty
horrible compared to X, and since I'm not networked, I haven't
tried playing XConquer with other people...

Shall I post it up on Sunsite ?

Enjoy !

Cos !
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams )
Subject: Re: TeX/xdvi Question.
Keywords: tex xdvi
Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:03:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.175550.2515@kth.se>, d88-jwn@zorin.nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov5.145820.24923@cs.wisc.edu> djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
|> >A quick question to a TeX/xdvi guru:
|> >
|> >When I run xdvi on a test.dvi file, I get the following output.
|> >...
|> >mv: cannot move `cmmi10.300pk' to `/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/pktmp.94': Permission denied
|> >...
|> 
|> I have chmod .../tex/fonts and .../mf/macros to 1777 so as to protect the
|> original files (due to the sticky bit) and let anyone write in it.
|> 
|> I do not like this way of doing things, but it does work.
|> -- 
|> /Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))

In the dvips documentation it is recommended that the pk fonts generated by
"MakeTeXPK" NOT be placed directly into the normal pk directory as this involves
making that directory publicly writeable. Instead they should be placed in
a special (publicly writeable) directory and the sysadmin can transfer those
deemed to be worth keeping into the normal directory from time to time.

That is how the archsci distribution is set up, with /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk
(with permissions set as drwxr-xr-x) as the normal directory for pk fonts and 
/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/local/pk (with permissions set as drwxrwxrwx) as the
"temporary" repositry for files generated by "MakeTeXPK".

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From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Extended FS -> "magic match failed"
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:18:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov7.031841.19494
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!

In article <1dee3sINNn98@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> of comp.os.linux,
  apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen) writes:
> 
> In article <chans.721065175@marsh>, chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) writes:
> |> I installed Linux on my hard drive as Linux Extended FS (Partition ID
> |> 83), with the SLS distribution. After the installation was complete, I
> |> rebooted...and it came up with "magic match failed". Other than that
> |> statement, Linux works fine. I can login, etc.
> |> 
> |> Oh, yes, when I do a fsck /dev/hda2 it comes up with a "bad magic number
> |> in super-block". What does this mean?? Can anyone shed some light here??
> |> 
> |> Sean
> 
> I think this is because the kernel assumes that the root partition is a
> minix partition.
> You could try to have a really minimalist minix root partition and then use
> another partition with an ext fs on it for the bulk of your files.
> 

The message is harmless, and occurs because the kernel tries to mount root
in the order minix -> ext -> msdos.

For the extfs you have to use efsck instead of fsck.

	/hpa
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From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: Seyon: xterm complains 
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:12:41 GMT

>>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:20:36 GMT, tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree) said:
DT> 	I tried out Seyon-0.5 this morning but only got the complaint:
DT> 	
DT> 	"xterm: can't find useable termcap entry"
DT>   I couldn't find what was bothering xterm in the sources though.
DT>   I have the usual termcap entries for xterms:vs,v2,vb and one for 
DT>   vi roughage ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ... usage.

Double check that you have a good termcap entry and that the xterm you
have is healthy. Seyon proper does not fuss around with the termcap
database but lets xterm worry about that (actually you can use any
terminal program you like with Seyon, those on tight memory can use
xvt instead of xterm and those who want ANSI color can use color
xterm). If all fails, invoke Seyon from an existing xterm by the
command 'seyon-cmd'. This uses the existing xterm window and does not
create a new one.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: q: 640x480 with vgalib
From: shachar@ramon.bgu.ac.il (Shachar Fleishman)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:58:10 GMT
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Hi

  How  can I add a 640x480 mode for the vgalib?

- Shachar
From: carl@boxelder.Berkeley.EDU (Carl vonLoewenfeldt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compiling ghostscript/view
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:24:40 GMT
Reply-To: carl@boxelder.Berkeley.EDU (Carl vonLoewenfeldt)
Organization: IBM Boulder, Colorado

In his note, Michael says:

'Ghostview failed as well:
'# make
'gcc -fwritable-strings -fomit-frame-pointer  -O2 -m386 -DNO_ASM  
-I/usr/X386/include  -D_POSIX_SOURCE '-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE     
-Dlinux  -DFUNCPROTO=11 -DNARROWPROTO -DNON_BLOCKING_IO  -DSELFILE
'-DHOME_ON_DEMAND   -c misc.c -o misc.o
'misc.c:61: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
'/usr/include/errno.h:8: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
'make: *** [misc.o] Error 1

I got exactly the same problems. I had to modify the files misc.c, line
61, (and another - 
I forget) as follows:

#ifdef notdef
(the offending sys_errlist declaration)
#endif /* notdef */

Then it compiled fine. As I said in my previous note, the result was a
GhostView that
comes up beautifully, but when I attempt to use it on an *.eps file, I
get a "dynamic malloc"
error with the info that I have insufficient memory (I think - I'm
remembering.) However,
my 8MB system with 16MB swap has NOTHING else running except for X.

Another problem, as I said in a followup note -- make doesn'w work
properly. It fails to
detect that *.o files exist, and are newer than their respective source files. 
Further, make seems to ignore any make targets, such as "install" or "clean".		


Carl vonLoewenfeldt
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: grindley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Robin Grindley)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:30:12 GMT

I was banging up into this 'cannot find font fixed' as well until
i re-ran mkfontdir in all of the font directories. The font.dir files
*were* there after i installed SLS, but somehow they were wrong.

Also, at least on the S3 server, if the FONTPATH in Xconfig has directories
that the server does not like (in my case it was Speedo) the server would
just hang, so pare it down to just misc/ and 75dpi/ to test.

robin
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