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From: jerry@marin.uucp (Jerry C. Hudgins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Obtaining the NT Developer's Kit
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:32:05 EDT
Organization: Private UUCP Node

Would someone please re-post or E-mail the information necessary to obtain a
copy of the NT developer's kit for an Intel platform?

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro)
Subject: Re: POSIX subsystem
Organization: Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:59:42 GMT


>> Is there any information on when we can expect the POSIX environment for NT?

 From what I've heard the Beta version of NT will have the Posix subsystem
and that version should be out by the end of October.   

-sean
From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Is it time to split this newsgroup?
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:00:06 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd, Cambridge, England.

In article <2PoTRB4w165w@underg.UUCP>, max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray) writes:
|> Actually since a lot of the traffic in this newsgroup is not about
|> win32 programming at all, but about nt, I think what we need is a
|> comp.os.ms-windows.nt newsgroup, or perhaps even better yet, a comp.os.nt
|> newsgroup. The latter would help distinquish the fact that nt is really
|> a whole new operating system, with the same interface.

I agree that there should be a comp.os.nt hierarchy. Or perhaps Microsoft
purists would prefer a comp.os.windows-nt, or even comp.os.wnt which would
come just before comp.os.vms :-)

There should be the usual groups, e.g.

.announce
.setup
.apps
.programmer
.misc
.advocacy

Perhaps there might also be

.programmer.win32
.programmer.posix
.programmer.os2

The main question I have is When? The groups are not needed yet, but it takes
a while for the whole creation process to happen and it would be nice to have
them in place before this group gets too busy. It is going to be bad enough
when the Beta hits the streets sometime in the next few weeks.

[And the OS/2 people would love it if we took the NT advocacy out of
comp.os.os2.advocacy :-]
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines)
Subject: Re: EISA vs local bus
Keywords: EISA VL
Reply-To: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV
Organization: JPL Spatial Interferometry Group
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:54:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.134613.1581@netfs.dnd.ca>, rosenqui@ncs.dnd.ca (E. Rosenquist) writes:

>#1 - I can't decide between a machine with an EISA bus or one with a
>VESA local bus (VL).

These are not mutually exclusive.  Most local bus machines only have
one or two local bus slots; the rest can be EISA or ISA.  I believe
the new Gateway 486/66DX2 machine (with the new Micronics motherboard)
is a EISA VL-bus machine.

But I may be wrong.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: leehart@microsoft.com (Lee Hart)
Subject: Re: More DLL questions
Date: 04 Oct 92 03:56:27 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Summary: DLLs are not global

In article <JYL.92Oct2172635@burgess.eng.sun.com>, jyl@burgess.eng.sun.com (Jacob Levy) writes:
> >Pass a function pointer, good only for the process which passes it.
> 
> This implies that the *very same* DLL instance will be shared by more than
> one process. That is, if the DLL has some storage then that storage is
> shared among all processes attaching to the DLL.. This is quite different
> from what I am used to in the SunOS world, where DLLs are private to each
> process.

No, this is not the case at all.  In fact, the same DLL, loaded by different
processes (conceivably the same application, if the DLLs are loaded in a
different order) can be at different addresses in the separate processes.

DLL data can either be shared among all instances or private to each instance.
You should review the Win32 docs for more information.

Like John said, the function pointer passed from the EXE is valid *only
in that process*, so you can't pass it via IPC to another instance and
expect it to work.
 
> Now, some more questions:
> 
> - How can a DLL function identify the process which called it? Is this
>   possible at all? If not, then the above answer is not applicable..

Do you mean get a process ID, or the name of the .EXE that the process
was created for?
 
> - Can a DLL do pointer arithmetic based on pointers passed as arguments?

This question does not make sense to me.  If you mean 'can I be passed the
address of a structure and access the members of that structure by using
offsets' then the answer is yes.  


Lee
Not a spokesman, etc.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: mba@tandon.com (Michael Ben-Ari (mba@tandon.com))
Subject: Re: NT DDK Conference ?
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:22:58 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.153812.10862@spider.co.uk> mikeo@spider.co.uk (Mike Overton) writes:
>After initially deciding not to go, on the grounds of cost, I've
>now decided to go to the US conference. But I seem to have mislaid
>the booking form, originally posted on the announce group. Could
>anyone mail me a copy, or give me the phone no of MS in the states
>to call to arrange it.

The number is.....  1 (800) MS-SHOWS (67-74677) or (206) 635-6435
(international).   Good luck, and ENJOY DISNEYLAND while you're there!

-Mike

>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Mike Overton.
>
>P.S. The trip is personal, and is not connected with Spider.


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From: wlb@progress.COM (Warren Bare)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Sound Blaster w/ CD drive
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:05:15 GMT
Organization: Progress Software Corp.

A few weeks ago someone posted a question about support for
the Sound Blaster's local CD controller in the October 
rel of NT.  I never saw a definite answer to this.  Has
anyone heard about a Yea or Nay?

Warren

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
Subject: Re: Having a shell more like X Windows
Date: 04 Oct 92 22:18:19 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: Posix, shell, nt, x

In article jason@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jason Nadrowski) writes:
| With the addition of Posix in Oct/Nov can I expect to see a 
| shell more like X, where I can have the mouse pointer on an 
| underlapping window (opp of overlapping window) 
| and be the active window?

No.  The look and feel is Windows.

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From: msieber@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: <None>
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:05:28 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Hello NT-Freaks?

I recently bought a 486-33 with 210 HD and 16 MB RAM.
This system should be NT-able. 

So my question: Is the original developers NT-Beta the still the latest
beta release?

Or are there better releases? How much better? Able to run win3.1 programs
reasonably?


Questions over Questions.......

Please email me any hint!


	Greetings 
		Martin Sieber

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: ch@sg1502.chemie.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: MEP editor
Organization: Philipps-University Marburg
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:56:21 GMT

In article <BvMB5p.B2A@unx.sas.com>, sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb)
writes:
|> 
|> How is/was one supposed to find out about "mep"?  It seems like an OK
|> line mode editor and seeing a suggestion on one of the posts I edited
|> \mstools\init\tools.ini and changed the helpfile path at the bottom
|> of the file to "c:\mstools\bin\mep.hlp".  This helped me enough to get
|> by but isn't there some more on mep like a general overview etc?
|> 
The first time I tried "mep" in the good old days of OS/2 1.1,
I decided, that "mep" will not be my favourite programming
environment. I am now using KEDIT 5.0 for OS/2 from Mansfield
Software Group (no relationship, except a satisfied customer)
with /NT. KEDIT is fully compatible to XEDIT for VM/CMS, which
should be well known to SAS Institute.

There is now a PD-Clone available from GNU on hobbes.nmsu.edu,
but I have never tried it. The filename is THEDIT.*, I believe

Christoph
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro)
Subject: Re: NT Win32 DLL building problem
Organization: Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:27:56 GMT


 The problem is that you're using printf in a windows dll.  Where do you 
expect that printf text to go??  You should use MessageBox to send display
messages.  Removing the call to printf will make it link without errors.

-sean

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: reneg@cpqhou.compaq.com (Rene Gaudet)
Subject: Re: NT Peer to Peer FIle Sharing
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 01:32:00 GMT

in article <1992Sep29.071105.8337@microsoft.com>, alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) says:
>>Maybe someone at Microsoft (Alistair?) can tell us, when there is a need
>>for a seperate LAN-Manager in the retail version.
> 
> "Lan Manager for Windows NT" will be desirable when administering
> networks with large numbers of Windows NT machines, or when
> server fault-tolerance is desired -- Alistair
  ^
  (insert) software-based  

Rene Gaudet
reneg@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com
From: arcpau02@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Paul Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: ///// .WAV file format??? \\\\\\\\\\
Date: 1 Oct 92 16:17:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Oct1.141707.202945
Organization: University of Cape Town



Does anybody know the .WAV file format?

 I assume it is basically 8-bit data, but what is the format of the
 header? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance 

  Paul Archer   (ARCPAU02@uctvax.uct.ac.zx)

 University of Cape Town
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: ///// .WAV FILE FORMAT??? \\\\\\\\\\
From: Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG)
Date: 5 Oct 1992 8:45:29 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

I'm also interested in this information.


(maybe somebody could post the answer here......)



thanks.




















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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb)
Subject: Perr to Peer File Sharing Problem
Originator: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:32:57 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


I can see other machines in my workgroup but don't see any of the file
shares that seem to be defined.

So I added another shared directory "c" path "c:\" and now I can see
and connect to my own shared directory using the fm/disk/connect menu.

My new shared directory seems to be defined exactly like the default
directories that were already defined (e.g. C$ and ADMIN$).  Is there
something special about the $ sign in the name?

Anyone have any ideas why the other machiens in the workgroup can't
see either the default shares or the new share I setup but can
detect the other machines active in the workgroup?

Is this stuff documented anywhere?

Thanks,


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: ch@sg1502.chemie.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: NT Peer to Peer FIle Sharing
Organization: Philipps-University Marburg
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:57:19 GMT

In article <Buzvqw.9pE@unx.sas.com>, sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb)
writes:
|> 
|> My impression reading the NT install doc (have not installed it yet) is
|> that two NT systems can be defined in the same "Workgroup" to "enable
|> file sharing across the network".  It make seperate mention that an NT
|> LAN MAnager will be available so I have to conclude that a seperate LM
|> server is not needed for two machines to share files?  Is this correct?
|> 
The current PDK does not require a seperate LAN-Manager to connect as
many workstations as you wish. NET CONFIG SERVER reports an unlimited 
server. However Microsoft states, that a seperate LAN-Manager will be
available.

Maybe someone at Microsoft (Alistair?) can tell us, when there is a need
for a seperate LAN-Manager in the retail version.

Christoph
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
Subject: Re: NT Win32 DLL building problem
Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:27:44 GMT

In article <JKF.92Sep30132756@frisky.Franz.COM> jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro) writes:
>
> The problem is that you're using printf in a windows dll.  Where do you 
>expect that printf text to go??  You should use MessageBox to send display
>messages.  Removing the call to printf will make it link without errors.
>
>-sean

You are only half right Sean.  The printf does not make sense in a windows
application, but when you link his stuff with "subsystem:console" where
printf should work, you still get "_main undefined".  Why does a library
routine expect there to be a "_main"?  Using  "strlen" causes the same
problem.  I have never understood the problem that Windows has with the
standard library functions.

Rion


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: jones@hal.uvm.edu (Mike Jones)
Subject: Re: MEP and CL386
Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:47:55 GMT

Good question, I was just about to ask the same thing.

When I run 'nmake', I get several errors, and then 'cmd.exe' quits
with an error (Fatal Error U1077, return code 2).  Okay fine, I have a
personal problem with my code. But MEP never displays the output of
'cc'.  Very strange.

It looks like some of the messages are stderr, some are stdout.  I
just ran 'nmake > out', and I got the banner and my 'cmd' error
message on the screen, but no CC output (cc output was in 'out' file)
So, MEP grabs stderr and redirects stdout.  Maybe it is possible to
change what Extmake does, and output directly to the MEP error buffer.
I wonder where stdout is going ?

Also, is there a 'goto line' key/function in MEP ? I haven't been able
to find one yet (probably overlooked it).  I can live with this
problem by compiling in another shell, and then doing 'goto's to get
to the error.

thank you,
	Mike
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: mokler@desert.in-berlin.de (Claudius Mokler)
Subject: NT Drivers for Novell NE2000
Organization: Private Site
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:21:46 GMT

I am looking for drivers for Novells NE2000. The current release
(july 92) won't even start if such a card is installed.
Does anybody know any help ?

e-mail to : mokler@desert.in-berlin.de
Thanks
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:57:45 +0100
From: Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de (Norbert Unterberg)
Subject: MEP and CL386
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Organization: Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de 

Hi,

I am trying to set up MEP in a way that allows me to compile my source files 
from within the editor and see the error messages. I got it to work for MASM386 
(I can jump from error message to error message with the cursor). But CL386 
seems to do some strange things with its messages. If I invoke the compiler 
(Arg Compile), my file gets compiled, but the compiler does not produce any 
message. So even when there are plenty of errors left in my program, MEP does 
says "No more compilation messages". If I look into the "<compile>" pseudo 
file, it only contains the compiler banner, but no messages. So where to the 
messages go?

Norbert
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: erlendl@edb.tih.no (Erlend Osborg Larsen,o92b)
Subject: LOCAL BUS GRAPHIC CARD
Reply-To: erlendl@edb.tih.no
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:33:13 GMT

Do anybody know what i should do to make my S3 graphic card
work with windows !!!

Could i have a problem with to old monitor
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP problem with 3COM503
Keywords: TCP/IP
Reply-To: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 27 Sep 92 01:31:04 GMT

In article <813@kommu.UUCP> klaus@norisc.erls01.siemens.de (Klaus Arzig) writes:
>
>Hi,
>we've installed TCP/IP for NT on an 486DX33 with 3Com503 Ethernet card.
>After all we can start TCP with "net start tcpipsvc" and it looks fine.
>But all we can do is to ping to another host. FTP will time out and if
>we try to ping our NT-system from another host it fails.
>
>Any ideas ?


I have the same configuration and I had a number of problems getting it to
work, *BUT* once tcpipsvc came up successfully I could do everything including
telnet all over the Internet.

So if you can ping, but can't FTP, it could be an authentication problem.
Maybe you're machine is not allowed to FTP to/from other machines in your
local network.

I've had no problems after tcpipsvc came up.

Hope this helps.

>
>Thanks in advance
>klaus

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rrohbeck@kboeng.enet.dec.com (Ralf-Peter Rohbeck)
Subject: Ptr: Updated Hardware Compatibility List for Windows NT
Reply-To: rrohbeck@kboeng.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Int. GmbH
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:54:06 GMT


See comp.os.ms-windows.announce.
From: leehart@microsoft.com (Lee Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: Updated Hardware Compatibility List for Windows NT
(Look there. Trying to conserve bandwidth.)
From: sanzgiri@bombay.metaphor.com (Ajit Sanzgiri)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Instance data in Win32s
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:58:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Originator: sanzgiri@bombay


	Will the win32s development environment allow DLLs to have instance
	data ? If yes, can they mix the two types of external data ?

	Also will it allow for exporting external variable names (which
	Windows 3.x does not allow) ?
	Ajit Sanzgiri

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Subject: Re: NFS Scenario w/ Lan Manager posssible?
Reply-To: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:44:55 GMT

In article <BvGCKu.56x@unx.sas.com> sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb) writes:

[ some stuff deleted ]

[ then some questions ]

I can answer some but not all of the foll questions:-

>Questions:
>

>- Is MS Lan Manager V2.1 the latest version?
>

Yes, unless there's a minor rev like 2.1a.

>- Will IBM's TCP/IP install along w/ MS' Lan Manager or only w/ IBM's
>  Lan Server?
>

I don't know I've only used it with LanServer.

>- Is HPFS considered stable under Windows NT or are we stuck w/ FAT
>  and short file names if we want a stable shared disk?  Since the
>  OS/2 system would have the HPFS disk and the NT system would access
>  it R/O I should think this was OK to do.  Or is it only NTFS that
>  we need worry about and both FAT and HPFS are considered stable?
>

I've only used FAT so far but some of my collegues have used HPFS on NT and
OS/2.  NTFS is not currently considered ready for prime time ( ie development ).

There appears to be no major problem with NT's HPFS.

>- Will Windows NT share disks w/ IBM's Lan Server?
>

Yes, I've been able to do this.


>Thanks for any input or suggestions w/ this NFS scenario,
>

Except for the IBM TCP/IP on LanMan part ( which I don't have info on ),
the rest ought to work.
Let the rest of us know how your experiment went.

I work in an environment where UNIX, NT, LanMan, LanServer and TCP/ip have to
co-exist.
So far we haven't attempted NFS mounts via IBM's NFS so I'm curious.
But the NT/Lanman/LanServer interoperability works.


>Dave Kolb
>
>
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>SAS Campus Drive - J206       Phone:      (919) 677-8000 x6827
>Cary, NC  27513-2414 USA      FAX:        (919) 677-8123
>

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: moncrg@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
Subject: Is it time to split this newsgroup?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 05:28:16 GMT

I am thinking that is soon approaching the time 
where this newsgroup into smaller, more specific
foroms. at a rough guess, i'd think you would want
one sub group to deal with the issues of setting
up the winnt beta, and one group for actual
development related issues. perhaps the simplest
approach would be to divide 
comp.os.ms-windows.setup into win30, win31, and 
winnt groups; and tell everyone to post thier
setup questions, hardware compatibility lists,
etc there?

if someone with more usenet expierience wants to
make such an official proposal i'd gladly support
it. (isn't the hierarchical nature of usenet
somewhat awkward to deal with?)

thanks,
g
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:1310 comp.unix.questions:11734
From: Chuck.Phillips@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Chuck Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: NT Under SCO Unix
Date: 2 Oct 92 07:36:47 GMT
	<BvDCrv.D2o@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
	<1992Sep30.145739.7841@microsoft.com>
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: alistair@microsoft.com's message of 30 Sep 92 14:57:39 GMT

>>>>> On 30 Sep 92 14:57:39 GMT, alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) said:
Alistair> Both the microkernel and the Win32 subsystem know how to handle
Alistair> multile users. The piece that won't is the server that managers the
Alistair> screen, being a part of the Win32 subsystem. So you can have
Alistair> multiple background tasks with different security IDs, but only one
Alistair> security ID for interactive processes -- Alistair

Perhaps the NT screen manager isn't so different (functionally) from an X
server + X window manager after all.  Question: If your hardware has multiple
graphics screens, can you arbitrarily assign security (i.e., user) IDs to
each screen?  I'm thinking in terms of a large installation with multiple
users hanging off a many-processor (or very fast single-processor) CPU.
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