HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: voracek@macdfv.dfrf.nasa.gov (David Voracek)
Subject: Re: XRN and AUX Problem 
Organization: NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards CA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:55:58 GMT

In article <1083@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
|> root@macdfv.dfrf.nasa.gov () writes:
|> 
|> >I asked this question before and lost some of the answers so here it
|> >is again:
|> 
|> > I am running AUX on a IIfx and am using xrn to read the net.  I have xrn
|> > set up to use the vi editor for posting....but when I try to post...
|> > I get the message..."unable to open editor(too many processes)....
|> 
|> >here is one of the answers: 
|> 
|> >>It's possible that you've run into a proc table problem...
|> >>Increase MAXUP (see kconfig(1m)) to something like 40 or 50.
|> 
|> >Well I checked MAXUP it is set to 100.....now what?
|> 
jim jagielski wrote:
|> How many processes for your user ID are running when this happens?
|> -- 


well we check the processes and I was not running near the limit

He then suggested to run XRN under the X11 env.  not the macX

well I am doing it and able to post...

what is wrong with the MacX and the user....

I can post under root with macX....??????

?????????????????????????????????

dave

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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: free upgrade to 3.0
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:06:31 GMT

eugene@cs.umb.edu (Eugene O'Neil) writes:


>I've been told that I could upgrade to  3.0 for free because I bought 2.01
>recently enough to qualify. I was supposed to "see my dealer for details"
>but my dealer is no expert in A/UX (what dealer is?) so I was wondering
>if anyone out there has any experience with this. What exactly do I do?
>Is it really FREE or is it simply significantly cheaper? Any help would be
>most appreciated!

If you bought A/UX after Oct 31, 1991, you are entitled to a FREE (yes...
FREE) upgrade to 3.0... You should see whatever dealer sold you 2.0.1.
If they were able to get 2.0.1, then they should be able to get 3.0 as
well.
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    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
From: Mike_Peters@vos.stratus.com (Mike Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: FAQ? process termination when modem drops?
Date: 13 Sep 92 02:48:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

I'm relatively new to Unix and brand new to A/UX 3.0.

I'm having problems setting up a modem on tty0 to be used for multiple
purposes (dial-in, dial-out and SLIP).    If a user dials in far enough to
execute sh or some other program, and if the modem connection drops, the
user stays logged in forever.  Is there a way in A/UX to force the parent
process on a port to be terminated if a modem signal is lost?

I've downloaded the BNU 1.16 stuff but haven't installed it yet.  Will this
help solve this problem or am I missing something else.
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From: chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson)
Subject: Bad 3.0 install problem! BAD! BAD!
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:36:04 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

  I've been working with Apple to try and get an installation problem with 3.0
resolved.  So far, they have got the software to install, but there are runtime
erro messages that come up.  ANd when I try to do the installation on another
drive of the same size/model I get an error message (bunch of them actually):

Disk write c0d0s0 Error: SCSI Timeout
Logical Block 48, physical blocks 648351-648414
scsitask: unrecognized message 0x1

This happens during the partition change of a UNIX slice or when the UNIX
installer says that it is Initializing UNIX filesystems...

Sometimes I get a message about a successful retry.  

The people at Apple have been nice, but I'm no closer to getting the problem
resolved than I was 8 weeks ago.

Yes the bus is terminated properly.  I've tried everything imaginable and 
spent many hours on this.  What should I try now?  I have read the FAQ list
concerning installation woes.

Help! HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPP!

chrism@col.hp.com
Chris Magnuson
Software Development Engineer
Hewlett-Packard
(719) 590-2963 
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Mac II memory problems
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:55:26 GMT

Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:

>In article <9209091623.AA18744@eagle>, levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan) wrote:

>> I have a Mac II with a 40mz 68030 accelerator and I do NOT
>> have the high density floppy upgrade(just the standard 800k
>> floppy).

>Are you using the special SIMMs with the PAL in them?

>> With four meg simms installed in bank b I have 20 meg of memory
>> installed.

>Shouldn't these be done the other way around?  You want the higher density
>SIMMs in bank A.  (Although I was somewhat surprised to find yesterday that
>my new IIci had the 5 megs it came with (from Apple) installed the "wrong"
>way....)  I don't think this matters much with MacOS, but I have heard
>others say that A/UX is somewhat more picky about this....

Actually, the MacII has a ROM bug that requires that Bank A be fully
populated with either 256 or 1MB SIMMs before you can fill Bank B (some
kinda RAM test problem I think). So BankA=1MB SIMMs, BankB=4MB SIMMs will
work but not the reverse.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
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Subject: Re: Finder crashes
From: R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 21:47:12 GMT
Organization: Massey University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have just noticed crashes. I posted about this sometime ago. I am using
the global System Folder. The sort os messages that precede a crash are of
the sort

Disk write c4d0s31 Error: Unit Attention

Disk write c4d0s31 Error: Unit Attention
Disk read c4d0s31 Error: SCSI timeout
Logical block 98, physical block 98
Disk read c4d0s31 Error: Unit Attention
Logical block 98, physical block 0
Disk read c4d0s31 Error: Unit Not Ready
Logical block 98, physical block 98
Disk read c4d0s31 Error: Unit Not Ready
Generic Disk c4d0s31 retry limit exceeded: Logical block 98, physical block
98
Disk read c4d0s31 Error: Unit Not Ready
Logical block 98, physical block 98


Any Guru wishes to offer advice. I am thinking of disconnecting the CD-ROM
which is SCSI ID 4 and see if the crashes go away. While I am on the
subject of CD's how do you eject the CD under A/UX.

Raminder Singh
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aux:3474 comp.sys.mac.apps:14580
From: johng@informix.com (John Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:06:11 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <khj.716508452@beagle> khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth Jacker) writes:
> [MS word nervousness deleted]
>
>So, how do I install something like Now Utilities, MS Word, MathType
>(that needs to add fonts to *some* System file), and other applications
>into a Un*x file system (*not* a MacOS file system) while remaining
>under A/UX?  Most of these new apps no longer use a "drag this there,
>and drag that there" installation approach.  Instead, they use the
>fancy Apple Installer program (Word uses v3.3) ...
>

Please post any emailed words of wisdom.  I did manage to get Word 5.0
(what, laugh?  _I_ originally picked FullWriteProfesional for A/UX use)
onto my A/UX 3.0 system, and do not remember if anything was odd or not (I
am using a personal system folder).  On the other hand, I have not been able
to install Canvas 3.0 .  Initially the problem was that it insisted on
installing into the root, but even access was grnated and installation was
progresing it gets some sort of file error (very repeatably, and I already
tried replacement disks) when decompressing some files.  I do not have the
space in my Mac OS partition to install it (oops).  So the 90 lb manual
(and sw) sit unused (the previous version still works).
	-jrg


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                                   Galloway Research     (408) 259-2490
From: test@test.com (test-test)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:44:26 GMT
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

>Path: nuntius
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<1992Sep3.204122.464@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <t5lnhfd.parag@netcom.com>
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Distribution: world
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
From: Antonio Ordonez <antonio@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX



>Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX

Since my name is being mentioned here, I think I should respond to some
of 
the comments here.

I used to monitor the mail sent to reports.aux on AppleLink.  That is no
the case
anymore.  If you want to send reports then send them to 

reports@aux.support.apple.com

I will try to send an acknowledgment when I receive a report.  I will
create
a bug report if it is one and if it is not, then I will try to let the
sender know
why we do not think it is a bug.

I should mention that I will do this on a "best effort" basis and that I
will not
attempt to respond to requests for Tech Support-help sent to this
address, since
I already get plenty of those  :-)

Hope this helps

Antonio
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From: parag@netcom.com (Parag Patel)
Subject: Re: Driver for SyQuest removable?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 20:40:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I can remount Mac partitions when I logout and then login again.  I'm
running A/UX 3.0.  As long as a cartridge isn't inserted when A/UX is
started up, I can add and remove cartridges from the drive without
having to shut it down.  2.0.1 had to be shutdown and rebooted to see a
new cartridge.  I can insert, mount, umount, and eject A/UX filesystems
without having to logout first.

Sorry, but I know of no Syquest driver.  The 3.0 CD-ROM driver should
have been made more general.  It allows mounting a Mac partition off of
a CD on the desktop, ejecting it, and mounting another one without
having to log out.  There's no reason I can see that prevent it from
supporting other removable drives.


	-- Parag Patel <parag@netcom.com>
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Finder crashes
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:58:24 GMT

urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>> 
>> The Mac requires that all SCSI devices have Unit Attention disabled. This

>That doesn't apply to A/UX.

>> is either done via setting some SCSI Mode Pages on the disk or with a
>> small jumper on the disk's controller board. Unit Attention is entered
>> during a SCSI bus reset.
>> 
>And it is exited as soon as the Unit Attention is transmitted to the Mac.
>Thus, it's a major mystery why the Unit Attention shows up more than once,
>above; it shouldn't.

True... the above "bug" was fixed back in the Mac Platinum days... still,
more than a few disks have been observed not to work when Unit Attention
is enabled... Why? I have no idea...
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Sendmail Help!
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:08:49 GMT

dba3k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Daniel Burton Avery) writes:

>I am having a problem with my sendmail.  First of all, i have
>recently changed my address to felix.async.vt.edu, when it was
>previously mozart.async.vt.edu.  The problem si that when other
>machines attempt to send mail to mine, they keep getting it
>(the mail) returned.  here is an example of a returned mail
>header:

>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>>> HELO mozart
><<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as
>local
>554 <root@felix.async.vt.edu>... Service unavailable: Invalid
>argument

There is a simple define (and file) that can list aliases that your
host is known as.... From sendmail.cf:

##################
#   local info   #
##################

# file containing our internet aliases
Fw/usr/lib/sendmail.cw

In this file put _all_ names you host is known as.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
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From: marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu (Marcelo Gallardo)
Subject: Re: Finder crashes
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:51:49 GMT
Organization: DeadZone * A/UX 3.0 SVR2 * 609-275-1833

In <1081@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:

>Has anyone else noticed more Finder crashes (and startmac core dumps) using
>a personal system folder over the global system folder?

	I have seen plenty of problems when using a personal SF. The
	only problem is it's not consistent. Sometimes I'll go for days
	without a problem, and others I can't even finish typing in elm.

	Makes it hard to tell if the problem is related to the personal
	SF or perhaps something else.

	Marcelo -

-- 
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Test and Evaluation Specialist		...!princeton!deadzone!marcelo
Princeton University			marcelo@Princeton.EDU
Advanced Technologies and Applications		(609) 258-5661
From: eugene@cs.umb.edu (Eugene O'Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: AUX 2.01 with Iomega bernoulli drive problem
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:52:37 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


Does anyone have any experience with using the Iomega 90 megabyte
bernoulli removable drive?  The mac init file that controls it
crashes the AUX finder. I've tried accessing it from inside unix:

dp /dev/dsk/c2d0s31

correctly reads the partition table, and I can modify the main partition
to prepare it for unix, but when I try to mkfs it says something to the
effect of "null boot block". I've tried re-formatting the disk using another
HD formatter which worked fine for my fixed disk, but will not access the
bernoulli.  Help!  Thanks.
From: J.Purchase@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jan Purchase)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: ncheck core dumps
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:16:57 GMT



Has anyone out there experienced problems using /etc/ncheck? 

Sometimes, when A/UX crashes, one loses an inode with no way of
telling which file(s) it represented - thus making it difficult to
replace. I have overcome this problem with ncheck. Using cron, I
schedule a nightly job to ncheck all the file systems and dump the
results in a file. If A/UX crashes and I lose an inode - I simply grep
this file to get the corresponding file name(s) and replace them. This
worked under A/UX 2.0.1 for over 16 months.

However, recently I have noticed that ncheck core dumps (with a
Segmentation violation, return code 139) when checking the /usr file
system. This file system has recently been enlarged (with the
installation of X11, prolog, epoch, etc..)  to some 9000 files
carrying about 102Mb of data. Does ncheck have an upper limit on
number of files or filesystem size?

Oddly, if I invoke ncheck from /bin/csh it crashes less often than
when I invoke it from /bin/sh (or via cron, which uses /bin/sh). Can
anyone shed any light on this?

Setup:

	A/UX 2.0.1 running on Mac IIcx, 8Mb RAM, 40+210+120Mb discs

"df -t /usr" gives:

/usr       /dev/dsk/c2d0s3        167738 blocks   81140 i-nodes
                          total   371478 blocks   88704 i-nodes

Many Thanks,

Jan

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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Setting up modem for dial-in and dial-out
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:06:16 GMT
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs) writes:

>In article <1992Sep14.143502.16251@ultb.isc.rit.edu> cnspci@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.N. Salvaggio ) writes:
>>I currently have a modem set up to receive calls so people can log
>>onto a Quadra 700.  The modem is a Prometheus 9600.  I was wondering if
>>this modem could be setup so that it can both receive incoming calls
>>as well as be used to dial out.

>Well, I'm using A/UX 2.0.1 with an OKIDATA 9600 modem, and it seems to
>work fine with a version of uugetty that I found and compiled (sorry, it
>was a long time ago--I don't remember where I found it, and the sources
>are long gone to find space for X11R5 ;-).

In fact, from what I know the version of getty under 2.0.1 was _also_
uugetty, but the "support" section of UUCP was so broken as to make
it unusable.

Under 3.0, this is all mucho better. Just recall that (uu)getty depends
on a lock file being created when outgoing calls are using the port. So
if you use a Mac comm. program, you'll need to create a wrapper around it
that creates the lock file and then launches the program. Phillip Porch
has e-mail me such a wrapper and I can make it avail. by anon-ftp.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: problems with Eschatology partition
Keywords: A/UX esch
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 12:55:21 GMT

marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu (Marcelo Gallardo) writes:

>	Well the AR partition seems to FUBARed and I can't get eupdate,
>	escher, or any commands that are supposed to work to work. My
>	question is - Can I delet the eschatology partition and then
>	recreate it without causing problems with any of the other
>	partitions on my root disk?

Yes you can, although it's much better to do it under single-user
mode. You'll also have to make sure that a ptab entry for it exists
when you 'newfs' it and then delete that entry when you run 'escher'

Let me know if you need more info.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
From: bob@beamlab.ps.uci.edu (bob prohaska)
Subject: MacTCP and SLIP.....NO GO?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Organization: university of california, irvine
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:28:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux

Has anybody managed to get MacTCP-using apps running over slip?

Is there some special trick to configuring MacTCP with slip?

thanks

bob prohaska
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aux:3470 comp.sys.mac.apps:14552
From: khj@cs.appstate.edu (Kenneth Jacker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Installing Mac Applications under A/UX
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:07:32 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University

I just tried installing a new version of Word (no flames, please!) on
my updated A/UX 3.0 system.  Though I had my doubts ("which System
Folder will it try to access?  My personal one, I hoped ..."), I went
ahead and "double clicked" on the "Word Installer" icon.

Though it began "almost normally", things got ugly fast.  I decided to
abort the install and check others' experience and wisdom.

So, how do I install something like Now Utilities, MS Word, MathType
(that needs to add fonts to *some* System file), and other applications
into a Un*x file system (*not* a MacOS file system) while remaining
under A/UX?  Most of these new apps no longer use a "drag this there,
and drag that there" installation approach.  Instead, they use the
fancy Apple Installer program (Word uses v3.3) ...

I've got a "dinky" MacOS file system that I could temporarily install
things in.  But, it would probably install resources in *its* System
file, not my personal one.  It would be an error-prone process trying
to find what else it did (e.g., creation of Preferences, Translators,
...  folders).

Not to mention that I'd have to leave A/UX and boot the MacOS.

Please, tell me there's an easier way!

--
khj@cs.appstate.edu --- Kenneth H. Jacker --- Boone, NC  28608   USA
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From: dba3k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Daniel Burton Avery)
Subject: mailx with no pausing
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:04:22 GMT

Is mailx supposed to do  screen pausing/"moring"?

If it is, then why would mine not be doing so.

If it isn't then JMP PARSE..oops, sorry, I feel into that
if-then thing.
If it isn't, then what's a good mail writer/reader that has
this.
ELM may be to big for my needs, but I'll accept that as an
answer if someone knows where a version is that will compile
under A/UX 2.0.1. 

Thanks,
D.
From: briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: inittab
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:44:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Sep6.232937.7737@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dba3k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Daniel Burton Avery) writes:
>When I rebooted, and got into the A/UX launcher I found my self
>unable to edit the inittab b/c vi doesn't work.  Aside from
>possibly mounting my drive on another A/UX system (which isn't
>a likly choice b/c I don't know of anyone around here who has
>an A/UX system) what can I do?  

Well, I don't know what you changed in your inittab, but you s/b
able to edit it with ed.  If nothing else, you can always create
the file line by line with cat > /etc/inittab.

I seem to remember being able to use ed when my password file got
toasted in a crash.  BTW, there are a lot of A/UX systems here in
B'burg (only a few hours away from Charlottesville ;-)...

>Also, I'm going to purchase the 3.0 upgrade CD.  Does the 3.0
>CD have the entire system on it?

I should think it would have everything you need.  In fact, I'd be a
little surprized if it were a different CD than the regular dist.

-allen
-- 
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briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu | Its keepers seemed generous and kind
Computer Science         | Its leaders were supposed to serve the country
Virginia Tech            | Now they don't pay it no mind...--Steppenwolf
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