HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jhaide@novell.com (Janos Haide)
Subject: Re: HELP: How does one identify a drive as a Novell network drive?
Organization: Novell, Inc. --Austin
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:14:58 GMT

In article <2TP1wB4w165w@cibbs.UUCP> root@cibbs.UUCP writes:
>I am attempting to determine how to look at say teh DOS media descriptor for a
>drive in memory to determine if this is a network drive. I've posted about this
>before and got no response.
>
>Anyone what to look for? I have used my resources regarding DOS programming and
>they never mention network drives.
>
>Someone in here once posted that they were able to make a change to the media
>descriptor to make DOS this that a network drive was a hard drive. Obvoisuly
>this is possible, but what would information would one look for determining if
>a drive was on the network, or local?
>
>Any informaion regarding this would be appreciated.
>Mark
>
>----
>Club InSaNiTy BBS   |   BBS:+1 416 691 0679 |   root@cibbs.UUCP
>DataSoft Consulting | Voice:+1 416 691 5529 |   uunorth!cibbs!root
>Mark Buckaway       | Toronto, Ont. CANADA  |   1@4653 (WWIVnet)

Mark,

Here is a code snippet from Al Stevens' DFlat library that might help.

 /* ---- test for network or RAM disk ---- */
 regs.x.ax = 0x4409;     /* IOCTL func 9 */
 regs.h.bl = dr+1;
 int86(DOS, &regs, &regs);
 if (!regs.x.cflag)    {
     if (regs.x.dx & 0x1000)
         strcat(drname, " (Network)");
     else if (regs.x.dx == 0x0800)
         strcat(drname, " (RAMdisk)");
 }

Now, how do you know it's a Novell network drive :
Check if you'se running on top of a Novell network.

If you're sure that you're running Netware, here's an alternate method:

mov ax, e900
mov dx, drivenum ; a: = 0 ...
int 21

on return ah has the drive flags:
bit 0: perm. handle
bit 1: temp handle (both mean NetWare drives)
bit 7: local drive

Hope this helps,
Janos
jhaide@novell.com

disclaimer!
 
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From: tsullivan@trentu.ca (The OTHER One True God)
Subject: Re: Turbo Vision is too fat!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent Computing and Telecommunications Department
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:37:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.125437.24927@dec8.ncku.edu.tw>, msc@snoopy.ncku.edu.tw (Mac Su-Cheong (MSC)) writes...
>  hmmm, I know TV is a very complete lib (it's nice), but is it possible
>  to separate the one big library into many small libraries? Then I can
>  link those I needed and leave out those unnecessary, resulting in
>  smaller executable file. It is very rare for me to write big program,
>  most of my programs don't exceed 1000 lines. Is it possible to break
>  that lib into smaller libs by myself?

  Unfortunatly, I'm not much of an expert at TV. I suspect you can include 
only the pieces of it thet you require, however it may be so intertwined 
within itself that there isn't much you can do about it. If you're only 
doing simple windowing, there are plenty of windowing libs out there. I'd 
give you the names of a few, but I don't know any offhand...

   Tim Sullivan
   tsullivan@trentu.ca
   cstes@blaze.trentu.ca

Disclaim THIS, buddy!
---
I looked over Jordan, what did I see?
Saw a US Marine in a pile of debris.
          - Roger Waters, Amused to Death
From: sb@next.neuro.emory.edu (Stephen O. Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: RAMDRIVES larger than 4MB ?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:49:30 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Reply-To: sb@next.neuro.emory.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: next.neuro.emory.edu



  Hi,

    Can someone tell me how I can create a ram disk larger than
  4MB ?  Is this an arbitrary limit imposed by ramdrive.sys, or
  is there a real reason for it ?  Please answer by e-mail if
  possible and I'll summarize if there's enough interest.


  Steve Berger (sb@onripx.neuro.emory.edu)
From: siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: question on spawning DOS from C prog
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:50:55 GMT
Organization: RMI Net - INFO.box systems
NNTP-Posting-Host: infoac.rmi.de

jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO) writes:


>For example, after spawning DOS the user would
>see:

>            <Type EXIT to return to program>      <--this would appear
>                                                     each time <RET> hit
>            C:\

>    Is there, perhaps, a parameter to COMMAND.COM to do this?

In your function declare something like:

	static char prompt[]="PROMPT=<Type EXIT to return to program>$_$_$P";

and before the spawnl() do a

	putenv(prompt);

to get exactly what you want.

Greetings,
Wolfgang
--
siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Subject: Re: Mouse incompatibility
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:46:43 GMT

More Mouse questions.

First, my partial mouse problem is probably an internal bug.
In other words, I have on a few systems the mouse working OK, 
and on other the mouse is just not working at all.

Then, I explored with int 0x33 list, the different mouse interface
and even replaced the mouse driver.  I had a MSCMOUSE and thought it
was MS-C Mouse.  No, it was actually a Mouse System Corp mouse.

So, my question is now: 

Since different mouse drivers are obviously not compatible, how do
big software to read different mouses?  There are different way of connecting
a mouse (bus mouse, COMx mouse), so, I think these software are using
the mouse driver provided with the mouse, but use those less documented
functions (the Mouse System and other not MS)?  Or is there some call
to tell a Mouse System or other mouse to emulate the MS mouse?
And my deep brain memory tells me something about a mouse I owned
previously: it was a Genius I think and you had to depress a button
(or something like that) to have the mouse emulating the MS Mouse package.
So, I presume there is a mouse call that will enable that emulation mode.

I checked on Simtel20 list of files and found no universal mouse driver
nor a text file about the problem of using any mouse.

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From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Redirecting output from a batch file.
Keywords: batch redirection
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:59:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Organization: Univ. of Texas School of Public Health

In article <1993Jan8.124018.22988@ucl.ac.uk> uclyjjd@ucl.ac.uk (Julian 
Daley) writes:
>If I have a one line file TEST.BAT which looks like this -
>@echo Hello World
>and I type ...
>TEST > TEST.OUT
>... at the C> prompt I get "Hello World" on the screen and a 0 
>length file, TEST.OUT



For what it's worth, this works as you expect it to under 4DOS - no
echo to the screen and output send to test.out.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: RAMDRIVES larger than 4MB ?
Date: 10 Jan 93 06:47:00 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

>In article <1il0dqINN4ur@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> sb@next.neuro.emory.edu writes:
>>    Can someone tell me how I can create a ram disk larger than
>>  4MB ?  

Use the ramdrive.sys program from MS-DOS 5 or Windows 3.1. Actually,
they're the same program. (The MS-DOS 5 manual says it's limited to
4M because that's what the limit was when we sent the manual text
to the printer...can you say, "last-minute change"?) Limit is 32M,
using either XMS or EMS ram.

If you've a copy of Vdisk.sys from IBM DOS or Compaq MS-DOS, it'll
likely go up to 16M.

-jen
 not speaking for microsoft, in fact, they don't know i'm posting.
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From: bkuhn@rhlab.UUCP (bmk Bradley Kuhn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.c
Subject: calling Perl286 from Borland C++ using spawnl
Keywords: perl, borlandc, spawn
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:31:15 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Baltimore Rh Laboratory, Inc., Maryland


Hello.

I am forced to develop an application under MSDOS because we need to run
it on a laptop and cannot afford a 386 and/or a PC-based UN*X system.

I have developed a C program, and a perl script that must be used to 
process some data just written to a file by the C program, and send the
proccessed data to LPT1:

Everything is fine, except when I attempt to call the perl script.  
The spawn always fails.

spawnl(P_WAIT, "c:\\gnubin\\perl286.exe", NULL);

This is the command after I stripped it down so perl would only print it's
version info.  Even like this, (i.e. without the options, script, etc),
the spawn still didn't work.

The value of errno is ENOMEM, and perror call right after spawn produces:
": No enough memory."

In the spawnl line, I replaced the call to perl286.exe with a call to 
bc.exe (Borland's DOS IDE)  This executable is *much* larger than perl286.exe,
and it ran fine.

We are going to attempt to use a DOS Extender tommorrow.  I don't know if
this is the problem or not, since bc.exe ran fine.

Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Do you think that
the DOS Extender will solve the problem?  If not, what will?

I would have posted after I tried the DOS extender, but this is urgently
needed, and I was hoping for some responses tommorrow after I tried the
DOS Extender.

Thanks.


-- 

 -- Bradley M. Kuhn    Computer Systems Development, Inc.
     INTERNET: rhlab!bkuhn@uunet.uu.net OR bkuhn@loyola.edu
     UUCP:     ...uunet!rhlab!bkuhn
From: aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu (AAA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: BASICA location
Date: 8 Jan 1993 04:45:35 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

Hi, I have MSDOS 5.0, and I recently got a program which requires
BASICA which I cant run since this DOS only has QBASIC.  The files
are stored as BASICA binaries.  Can anyone tell me where to get
BASICA?  Or send it uuencoded to me?

Thanks
aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: tennesen@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Andy Tenne-Sens)
Subject: MS Word 5.5 File Format ?
Keywords: MS Word 5.5
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:31:21 GMT

Does anyone out there have detailed information, or know where I can
get such information, on the format of MS Word 5.5 *.doc files?

Thanks in advance.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Andy Tenne-Sens                      
  Communications Research Centre / DRL
  P.O. Box 11490, Station H            
  3701 Carling Ave.                  E-mail: tennesen@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
  Ottawa, Ontario                    Office: (613) 998-2645
  CANADA   K2H 8S2                   Fax:    (613) 990-7987

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: vdkamp@rullf2.leidenuniv.nl
Subject: ATI VESA SEX e.t.c.
Organization: Leiden University, Medical Informatics
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:35:37 +0100

Hi,


  We tried once so hope we have your attention now.....

   We are in the middle of a decission to buy several ATI Ultra Pro
or other graphics adapters. As everybody we need speed on the graphics. 

Does S3 support include the ATI Ultra Pro Processor's support? 
Is there a fast VESA compatible board? (Any info on VESA?)

Anybody Experienced with Fast SVGA boards 1280 x 1024??


PPPPPPlease? (c)  


a Desparate Bob van der Kamp & Marco Roessen.

VDKAMP@Rullf2.LeidenUniv.nl
 

(c) By Roger Rabbit
From: muzo@waffle.sns.com (muzaffer kal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: gnu indent and uuencode, uudecode
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:58:08 GMT
Organization: Systems'n'Software

Systems'n'Software, Fremont, CA  94539-6669
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 12:56:50 PST
Organization: Systems'n'Software, Fremont, CA  94539-6669

I have a port of gnu indent with no docs. does anybody know how to use 
it?

does anybody know the format of the uuencoded files. I've received mail 
from a sun but can't read it.

thanks

Muzaffer

----
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Systems'n'Software Free Public Access BBS --- (510)623-8652
From: ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo Vision is too fat!
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:15:12 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In <1993Jan11.125437.24927@dec8.ncku.edu.tw> msc@snoopy.ncku.edu.tw (Mac Su-Cheong (MSC)) writes:

>  hmmm, I know TV is a very complete lib (it's nice), but is it possible
>  to separate the one big library into many small libraries? Then I can
>  link those I needed and leave out those unnecessary, resulting in
>  smaller executable file. It is very rare for me to write big program,
>  most of my programs don't exceed 1000 lines. Is it possible to break
>  that lib into smaller libs by myself?

I've been writing a customisable install program using Turbo Vision, and I
was worried that the executable would be >> 200K which would be a substantial
portion of an installation disk.

However, provided you're not using resources (eg. string lists) or overlays
then you can use an executable compression program such as lzexe which'll 
also get rid of any extra info (such as debugging info or overlays) which 
exist after the executable code.  This managed to reduce a large executable
(about 320K including debugging info) down to about 65K and doesn't cause
much of a loading overhead.

Cheers,

   Adrian

-- 
Adrian Collins, MCC Network Unit, The University, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
    (061)-275-6009  or for those of the computer age: ade@mcc.ac.uk 

"How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on"
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: boggs@a.cs.okstate.edu (BOGGS RICHARD GRAN)
Subject: Re: Seeking Text User Interface Library
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 18:17:44 GMT

In article <duong-070193150757@146.154.25.54> duong@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Phong Duong) writes:
>Please no yelling if I've posted to the wrong group.  I am looking for some
>good shareware C libraries:
>
>   * a library to help me do data entry, pop-up and pull-down windows,
>     (mostly user interface stuffs) in VGA text mode.

I have been using VLIB 4.x for sometime now.  It's from Pathfinder Associates
and runs around $150 with source code, tech support, and free updates.  It does
all kinds of windowing, popups, dropdowns, form entries, lists, popsideways.
Basically anything (and more) you'd need for a good text GUI.  I highly recom-
mend it.  "VLIB 4.x the user interface library for C".

>   * a library for B-tree data manipulation, and

I have recently purchased MIX Software's C/Database Toolchest Library.  It
included comprehensive B-Tree and ISAM implementations all for $29.95 (I think).
They boast a manual of 350+ pages.  True, it has that many, but the manual is
really oriented towards beginning level programmers.  But you can cut through
to the chase and just flip through the reference sections (which are great) to
get to the meat of the thing.   Source code is available for $10 more.

One gripe I had about MIX's product was that they only supply the medium library
model (whereas VLIB supplies all library models)!  I suppose that is to encour-
age you to purchase their source code...

I also understand that there is a shareware package on wuarchive.wustl.edu in
the database area (I think) called BTREE11.  Don't quote me on the name, but it
is on the site.  It's a B+ Tree implementation that I have used in the past
for a project.  I tried contacting it's authors, but the number is out of
existance and the package is several years old.  But it works just fine!  Source
code is included.


>   * a linked-list library

Write you own or use Borlands...
-- 
Grant Boggs
boggs@a.cs.okstate.edu
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: shawnspo@teal.csn.org (Shawn Spotanski)
Subject: Fortran Programming
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:54:10 GMT

I am looking for information on the Fortran Programming Language.  I would
like to know some things about it, as I am considering taking it up.  Such
as:  What would it be useful for?  Would it be useful in the computer
workforce today?  Is it a difficult language to learn?  Can it be compiled
into a .EXE or .COM style program?

Also, while I am sending a message, I would like to ask an Internet based
question:

Should I send these messages world or a more local dist.?  

I would prefer personal, E-mail responses so I can be sure to get them.

Thank you,

Shawn Spotanski

shawnspo@csn.org




Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: kestes@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil (Kent Estes)
Subject: Microsoft serial mouse driver(s) needed...
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:51:15 GMT

The Subject says it all; if someone knows where a driver is, please
let me via email.  

Thanks in advance,

   K. L. Estes


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: psykseth@aau.dk (Seth Chaiklin)
Subject: GLOBAL structs > 64K
Organization: Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:58:30 GMT

Harvey Shulman posted the following code for making a structure that was
greater than 64K:  (thanks Harvey!)

#include  <stdio.h>
#include  <stdlib.h>
#include  <alloc.h>

void main()
{
int  i;
typedef struct yynew {int current, advance;} yynew;
yynew  *yycrank, j;

/* in the allocation statement I could not see why you used 20000L.
   after all 20000 is 20000, isn't it? */

yycrank = farmalloc(20000 * sizeof(yynew));
for (i = 0; i < 20000; i++)
 { j.current = 0;
	j.advance = i;
	*(yycrank+i) = j ;
 };
}


This compiled for me as well, and as Ian Gray pointed out, it is critical to
make it 20000L and not just 20000.  Try it in the debugger and see the
difference.

He also mentioned that:

> in the above loop I tried several variants of assignment to the
> fields of yycrank's records without success.  Maybe someone else can
> describe how to do such things as   *(yycrank+i).current = 0

I also had problems like that.  I never did figure that out, and I don't
understand why it is a problem.

However, I still haven't gotten my REAL problem across which is that
I want to make this definition GLOBAL!  As I mentioned in my original
post, I can do all these things inside of a function, but I want to
make this initialization global so that I can use the initialization
to initialize some other structures.  Everything falls apart for me
when I try to make these same definitions outside of a function.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Cheers,
  Seth
From: storner@diku.dk (Henrik St|rner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: About GCC...
Keywords: GCC, protected mode, 32 bit
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:42:22 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

s0r1282@zeus.tamu.edu (RAVET, STEVEN) writes:

>The problem with getting GCC from barnacle is that it only allows 5 anonymous
>users at a time.  The documentation I have says that GCC is also available
>from:
>  iros1.iro.umontreal.ca   132.204.32.21  /pub/Internet/gnuish
>  vulcan.phyast.pitt.edu   130.49.33.16   /pub/gnuish
>  wuarchive.wustl.edu      128.252.135.4  /systems/msdos/gnuish
>  wsmr-simtel20.army.mil   192.88.110.20  pd1:<msdos.gnuish>

Actually, it should be at all of the SIMTEL20 mirrors, so You can also
get it at

   oak.oakland.edu	/pub/msdos/djgpp
   ftp.uu.net		(don't have the directory at hand)
   nic.funet.fi		/pub/msdos/SIMTEL20-mirror/djgpp  (for european users)

-- 
Henrik Storner (storner@olivetti.dk / storner@diku.dk)
Tech. Support
Olivetti Denmark
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: fs8j@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Fraser Street)
Subject: Suggestions wanted: A good programmers editor!
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:14:25 GMT

Greetings:

I am interested in your recommendations from the net of a good
programmers editor for MS-DOS (386+) class machines.  Specifically I
am interested in either freeware, shareware, or very cheap commercial
products, so that the cost to me (my University) is relatively low.
If it costs much I'll have to get a purchase order etc. - you know how
that goes...

I am not dissatisfied with the editor we I currently use.  In
fact, for shareware I think it's quite nice.  But my editor is several
years old and I'm wondering if there isn't something a little fancier
available.

Here are some properties of interest.

For me, a candidate editor must:

1) Be character based.  
2) Do split screens to edit multiple files 
3) Have some sort of menu bar for functions which can appear/disappear
   as necessary.
4) Have some sort of keybindings I am familiar with (emacs or
   Wordstar)
5) Hopefully have a pop-up help screen for keybindings..


I would like to know if there is a shareware/freeware editor which has
two other functions I find very useful:

1) Support for a mouse so I can select text for cut/paste/delete
   operations.
2) Syntax directed indenting so that when I program the editor is
   aware of the current code and automatically indents to handle (), {},
   ;, and other similar constructs.  This would be similar to emacs's
   C-mode.
3) A relitively robust UNDO facility.


The editor DOES NOT need to have:

1) A fancy macro language.
2) The ability to edit huge files.


We are a university research lab - the editor would only be used for
non-commercial purposes.

If you know of an editor that fits this description which I could
acquire via FTP, or an inexpensive commercial product, please let me 
know.  If I get many responses I'll post a nice summary to the net.

Thanks in advance.

Fraser


-- 

Fraser Street
fraser@Virginia.EDU
University of Virginia
Computer Networks Laboratory

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From: ereimber@cipres.cec.uchile.cl (Reimberg Navarro Erich Eduardo)
Subject: Some questions
Originator: ereimber@araucaria
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 23:05:15 GMT
Organization: Centro de Computacion (CEC), Universidad de Chile

Hi. I'm not an experienced programmer, so this questions may be a bit
obvious for some of you.
Here they are: What is protected mode. i just know that it's available
for 80386+ CPUs.
What does the nomenclature xxxx:yyyy for memory locations mean? How do
I read it? How do I interpret it?
And the last one: My BIOS reports 639Kb total conventional memory. It
actually has 640K for conventional mem, 1408 extended. Where's that
Kilobyte that BIOS can't find?

   Don't send email answers, please. The local mailers is not working
properly, so some of the mails may be lost.

                              -erich
--
From: sill@zoe.as.utexas.edu (Daniel Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: color palette problem...
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:43:44 GMT
Organization: McDonald Observatory, University of Texas @ Austin

hello all,

i am pulling my hair out over this...

i am writing in assembly (MASM) and my problem is this:

i want to set the vga palette (in a 256 color mode)
but i want to do it manually rather than using
int 10...i have ferraros's book on ega/vga,but
there are no examples that do this (they all use
int 10)...if anyone could send me a snipet of code
or tell me where i can better info, i might just
decide to hold off on buying that GUN!

by the way, the reason i do not want to use the
int 10 is that it is too slow...i have found on 
some cards, that this slowness has the effect of
a colorful snow at the top of the screen during
rapid palette changes...

please email me THANKS!

daniel sill
  
-- 
* "You can't have everything...where would you put it ?" * 

Daniel A. Sill    sill@zoe.as.utexas.edu
Department of Astronomy - The University of Texas @ Austin
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