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From: petav@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Averkamp)
Subject: Re: nfs-server patch
Keywords: nfs,performance
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 12:09:13 GMT

jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:

>In article <petav.702568969@e20.physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> petav@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Averkamp) writes:

>>According
>>to what i've heard & read about it from DEC, data loss seems to be 
>>at least probable, if not the compelling punishment for anybody
>>who dares to apply the evil methods of its competitors to DEC's
>>machines.

>The only time async NFS loses data when synchronous NFS does not is when
>the server crashes without saving dirty buffers (this happens on power
>failure and sometimes when a disk fails).  In this case up to 30 seconds
>of writes may be lost.  The exact amount depends on the timing of the
>crash and the disk I/O rate.

>Except when the server crashes, there is no reason to expect data loss.
>MIT-Athena runs its servers with syncwrite off.

That's exactly what i wanted to express, but without firing up
thousands of warnings from people who think different. There
just was a very long discussion on this in comp.protocols.nfs,
from which everybody can draw his own conclusions. The point is,
that nothing you hack into your kernel like this is supported
by DEC and no complaints therefore accepted if ANYTHING with
such a system fails. The warnings about data loss seem mainly
informal in this sense, not like you should really expect 
anything to crash. I think the way this was expressed, was just
a little bit too threatening and prone to make jokes about it :).

Besides, I now have worked out a patch for VAX/ULTRIX 4.1, 
and the offer stands for this one too, of course.

 - Peter -
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cummings@erich.triumf.ca (William J. Cummings aka Milo)
Subject: postsript to Hp laserjetIID
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Printing, postsript
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:10:00 GMT

We have a DEC 3100 runing ultrix.  The application we are
using produces postscipt files for graphics hard copies.
Unfortunately, the only printers we have available are
non-postscript HP laserJetIID's.  Is there software available
to convert the Postscript files into files which can be 
printed on the HP laserprinter?

I thank anyone who can answer this question in advance.

Bill Cummings
TRIUMF
Vancouver, BC Canada
cummings@erich.triumf.ca



Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
From: rob@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Subject: Connect modem to DS5000/200
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:07:11 GMT

I'm trying to hook up a Prometheus ProModem 9600 (V32) to a DECStation 5000/200
running Ultrix 4.2a, and not having much luck with it. I don't appear to have
any flow control problems, but I apparently don't have the right settings
on either the DEC or the modem, since getty either runs wild, spewing 'login:'
prompts at the modem, or remains silent at any speed. I hvan't been able to
find info in either the man pages or the manuals on what signals are used for
modem control on the DEC. Any information (or pointers to such) would be
greatly appreciated.
	Thanks,
	Robert
-- 
Robert K. Shull, Sr. Applications Programmer, Engineering Computer Network
rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
Disclaimer: OU can't afford opinions, so these must be mine.
From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: rlogin to sun4c fails
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:24:12 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <29DE1442.1919@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>In article <1992Apr2.015824.27362@ncar.ucar.edu> clyne@redcloud.scd.ucar.edu (John Clyne) writes:
>>
>>Has anyone experienced any problems rloging in to Sun4c machines from
>>Ultrix? I've got two DECstation 5000/200s running 4.2a that have 
>>sporadic problems when trying to rlogin to our diskless Sun 4/50GXs running
>>SunOS 4.1.1. About half the time rlogin succeeds the rest of the time 
>>it simply hangs forever. I have no problem with other machines, including
>>other suns, on the same network. It doesn't seem to be a hostname 
>>resolution problem - there is a connection established. I can see 
>>rlogind starting up on the remote machine.  rsh 'command' works fine.
>
>You can get a fixed rlogin from DEC.  It was broken around Ultrix 4.1
>as I remember, and the same rlogin fixes it in Ultrix 4.2/4.2a.
>
I disagree. It is not fixed in Ultrix 4.2. I do not know about 4.2a.
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From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: WHAT is the FASTEST way to load a Decstation 5000/240
Summary: Not the same scale, but.
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:14:03 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.

In article <1992Apr16.140242.17565@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>, rhill@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Russ Hill) writes:
> 
> I have to load a few hundred Decstations 5000/240 and currently I 
> am using ris to get the os installed then I run a shell script that
> copies applications and makes other minor adjustments. but ris
> is not unattended!!! 

Install the first one.  Find the base system that is the least common 
denominator of all of them and set up the first in this way.  Make a 
backup of the necessary file systems.

For each system, restore these file systems and then customize them.
When I did this for about 10 DECstations, I just took one and put
as many disks on it as I could and built the disks offline.  Once
I had the disk built, I'd change the unit id and put it on a system
to do the customization.

> I need this to be as unattended as possible.

A carefully written shell script should allow multiple newfs(8) and
restore(8) commands to run in parallel on a set of disks.
> 
> Russ Hill
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: edotto@uipsuxb.ps.uiuc.edu (Edward C. Otto III)
Subject: HP Laserjets, lpr, and Word Perfect 5.1 on a PC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:24:40 GMT

Greetings, Netlanders!

I have a rather weird question, and I hope someone out there has the
answer for me...

I have a HP Laserjet II series printer connected serially with my VAX
11/785, and am using PC/TCp 2.05 and the lpr spooler software to
print from PCs to it.

Text files from the 11/785 itself work fine, as do text files
from the PCs.

The hassle happens when I use Word Perfect.  Printer redirection works
ok, but I get a blank page at the end of EVERY job.

When I try to use a downloaded font (included in the file that's
spooled), the printer prints a banner page and NOTHING else.

Anyone got any ideas?  Enclosed below are my printcap file and the
output filter I am using.

Edward C. Otto III   	    *  E-mail addresses:  e-otto@uiuc.edu
Printing Services Office    *  Phone:  217/333-9422
54A E. Gregory Drive	    *  "The only thing we have to fear is
Champaign, IL  61820	    *  24 line .signature files..."

*	*	* Cut Here *	*	*	*

# @(#)printcap	4.1	(ULTRIX)	11/23/87
lp0|lp|0|local line printer:\
	:lp=/dev/lp:\
	:of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/lpf:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
	:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
# Covalent Printer - Kelly
lp7|7|lp7:\
	:af=/usr/adm/lp7acct:\
	:br#4800:\
	:fc#0177777:\
	:fs#023:\
	:lf=/usr/adm/lp7err:\
	:lp=/dev/tty07:\
	:mx#0:\
	:of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/lpf:\
	:pl#66:\
	:pw#132:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd7:\
	:xc#0177777:\
	:xf=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/xf:\
	:xs#044000:
# LA120 in Machine room - change when new printer is delivered
lp6|6|lp6:\
	:af=/usr/adm/lp1acct:\
	:br#1200:\
	:fc#0177777:\
	:fs#023:\
	:lf=/usr/adm/lp6err:\
	:lp=/dev/tty06:\
	:mx#0:\
	:of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/lpf:\
	:pl#66:\
	:pw#132:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd6:\
	:xc#0177777:\
	:xf=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/xf:\
	:xs#044000:
lp31|31|lp31:\
	:lp=/dev/tty31:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/hp:\
	:br#9600:\
	:fc#0177737:\
	:fs#040:\
	:xc#037737:\
	:xs#040040:\
	:of=/usr/lib/hplaserjet:

*	*	*	Cut Here	*	*	*


#!/bin/csh -f
/bin/echo -n '&k2G'
/bin/cat
if ($status == 0) then
	exit 0
else
	exit 1
endif
--
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Printing Services Office    *  Phone:  217/333-9422
54A E. Gregory Drive	    *  "The only thing we have to fear is
Champaign, IL  61820	    *  24 line .signature files..."
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: heiney@wsl.dec.com (Bob Heiney)
Subject: Re: Problems getting more swap
Keywords: swap swapon
Reply-To: heiney@pa.dec.com
Organization: DEC US Desktop Sales
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 22:09:28 GMT

Gretchen Mittelstaedt writes:

> I am trying to allocate more swap on my DECstation 5000/200.
> I thought I could do the following:
>	1)  Use this fstab entry:
>		/dev/rz0g:/swap:sw:0:0:ufs::
>
>	2)  Depend on the "/etc/swapon -a                  >/dev/console"
>	line in the rc to get my additional swap
>
>	When I reboot the system, I get the error:
>		/dev/rz0g: No such device

I'll address why this doesn't work, but first I feel I'd better write
a warning:

BEWARE!!!  Starting swapping on rz0g will UTTERLY DESTROY the contents
of the rz0g partition.  ( I expect that if the rz0g is already mounted, you
will get an error about "device already in use", but I'm not sure and
don't want to find out on *my* system! )  Since this is where ULTRIX usually
puts /usr, I'm concerned that you might be thinking that ULTRIX will create a
file on /usr and page/swap to it.  This is not the way ULTRIX works.  When a
partition is allocated for page/swap, the entire partition is used, and any
data that was on it is lost.

If rz0g contains valuable data (like I expect), your only alternatives are to
either
	
	attach another SCSI drive and swap to a partition on it

or
	
	use dump(8) to save the contents of rz0g, repartition the disk to
	give more space to the b partition, and then restore(8) the g
	partition


Returning to the question of how to add additional swap devices, you must
build your kernel to be able to swap on the additional device.
From swapon(2):

     The swapon system call makes the block device special available to the
     system for allocation for paging and swapping.  The names of potentially
     available devices are known to the system and defined at system confi-
     guration time.

Modifying your kernel configuration file should do the trick (this example
makes the primary swap partition rz0b, and allows swapping to be
activated on rz1b at a later time via swapon(2)):

config          vmunix  root on rz0a  swap on rz0b and rz1b    dumps on rz0b

--
Bob Heiney
Technical Consultant
Digital Equipment Corporation, US Desktop Sales, Palo Alto, CA
All opinions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: wizard@greylady.uoregon.edu (KevinS)
Subject: DECsystem 5000/240 memory problems
Organization: University of Oregon Chemistry Stores
Distribution: comp
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:41:05



DECStation 5000/240
32 megs memory, two 64m swap partitions
ultrix 4.2a

We have a rather memory intensive statistical modeling program that
I have problems running on our brand new DECStation.

At startup, the program asks how much memory it can use, if we give
it a large amount, say 3,000,000 words, it runs for a while and then
I get the following:

pid 16599 (eqsprog) was killed on a kernel access, at pc 0x4986a0

and

16276 BUS ERROR core dumped

After reading some of the previous posts, I used (csh) unlimit and
got the datasize up to 131072 and the stacksize to 32768.  These
appear to be the upper limits, although I don't know how they
might be changed if they are not.

The program runs fine on a SparkStation with only 16 megs.  So it must
be something in our configuration or within ultrix.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin Smolkowski  (recently appointed system manager)
wizard@greylady.uoregon.edu

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From: ciqa@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Centro de Investigacion en Quimica Aplicada)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: can't login
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:18:47 GMT
Organization: I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey

Hello, I have a problem with a uvax 3400 running Ultrix 4.2
Suddenly, no one can login to the machine, not from network
terminals, not from directly connected terminals. The machine
displays the login: and password: legends accept them, and
afte one minute or so, displays again the login: legend
After restarting the system, the problem persists.

Any idea?

Jose Luis Gomez

P.S. Sorry for my bad English
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Why is dxclock bigger than vmunix?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:34:54 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <peterd.703429230@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com> peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>For reference, here is the output from size (Ultrix 4.2):
>
>text    data    bss     dec     hex
>1556480 327680  86112   1970272 1e1060  /usr/bin/dxclock
>1140496 117200  570848  1828544 1be6c0  /vmunix
>
>I'm sure people have beaten this topic to death before, but I'll flog it
>again - WHY DOES IT TAKE 400K BYTES MORE CODE SPACE AND 200K BYTES MORE
>DATA SPACE TO PUT A SILLY CLOCK ON THE SCREEN THAN TO IMPLEMENT ULTRIX?

dxclock is also dxcalc, dxcalendar, and dxpuzzle.  They are all
hardlinked to the same executable.  


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926
From: tgcpmv@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Martien Verbruggen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: VAX/TPU editor for Ultrix
Keywords: Vax Ultrix
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:55:10 GMT
Reply-To: tgcpmv@urc.tue.nl


Hello,

We have a DEC/ULTRIX system, with editors like vi, emacs, jove and joe.
However, there still are a lot of users who are real VAX/VMS freaks, an they
keep asking me for an editor like the VAX TPU or EDT editor. Well, I'm not a
fan of the V(omit) M(aking) S(ystem), but I have to keep my users happy.

Can anyone tell me where to get (the source of) such an editor?

--
Martien Verbruggen (tgtcmv@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands.
--
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: disassociate X display from system console
Organization: CS
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:24:23 GMT

In article <2909@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.223435.28022@coco.ms.washington.edu> rcf@coco.ms.washington.edu (Richard Fairfield) writes:
>>
>>I'd like to leave the cpu/disks/tapes etc in the computer rooms, put
>>longer cables on the consoles and put them in a public terminal area for use
>>as X terminals. Then I'd use plain crts for system consoles.
>>
>
>Hmmm, I cannot really understand why you want to do that....
>Why must you have the consoles in the computer rooms??
>Why can't you put the whole hardware in the public area? Could they be
>stolen? That would be the *only* reason for not doing that.

I wish it was that easy...

Access to the system console could allow users to boot the thing up
single user, disconnect drives, more easily crash the machine during
normal running operations, basically just hose things over.  I can 
think of lots of reasons to put the consoles in a locked secure environment...
Especially with the occasional capricious student running around...

To answer the question, I doubt that you can do what you want to do.  As I
recall if the boot-up firmware detects that you want to use a serial port
for the console, it never initializes the graphics hardware.  Or if it
finds the graphics hardware, it uses it for the console regardless, or 
something along those lines.  Whatever the reason, I don't think it will work.

-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@{cs,coe}.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: WHAT is the FASTEST way to load a Decstation 5000/240
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:37:27 GMT

>I have to load a few hundred Decstations 5000/240 and currently I 
>am using ris to get the os installed then I run a shell script that
>copies applications and makes other minor adjustments.

	Use a spare disk.

	Install one machine and get it Just The Way You Want It. Make
mount points in /tmp, named /tmp/usr.mount /tmp/root.mount, and so on.

	If you're using BIND have it all configured, with all the host
names and addresses you are going to use. In /etc/rc.local, where it
sets the hostname, make the hostname _HOST_NAME_ or something like that.

	Then go to another machine and set its SCSI ID to something else,
boot off the spare disk, and start "script" running. Partition the disks,
newfs them, mount them to the mount points in /tmp and do dump/restores to
them, copying the exact image of the "master disk". remove the
restoresymtables.

	Next, do something like the following:
	echo -n "hostname?"
	read hostname
	ed /tmp/root.mount/etc/rc.local << DONE_READING
	/_HOST_NAME_/
	s/_HOST_NAME_/$hostname/p
	w
	q
	DONE_READING

	This will be the only interactivity required - setting the hostname.
	
	Now you're (presumably) done. Exit the script, and edit typescript
so that the result is a shell script that exactly repeats your steps. The
system build procedure now is:
	walk up to machine
	change SCSI ID of the system disk to the same value as before
	hook up master disk
	boot it
	run the script
	drink cappucino
	enter the hostname
	drink cappucino
	halt the machine
	unhook the disk
	reset the SCSI ID to that of the master disk
	drink cappucino
	boot the machine
	walk off


mjr.
From: giulio@unicorp.sublink.org (Giulio Bertellini)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Public Domain reimplementation of the (AT&T) curses library.
Date: 8 Apr 92 06:43:48 GMT
Organization: Sublink Network

In porting an application package to IBM RISC 6000 and DEC Ultrix 4.2
environments I have found that the functions 

                 curs_set() 

                 isendwin()

are missing.  

I would appreciate indication of possible sources
of equivalent functions.

Thank you very much in advance,

giulio bertellini             (giulio@unicorp.sublink.org)

-- 

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                    Via G. Govone, 56 - 20123 Milano, ITALY  +39-2-33608282
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Tektronix emulator
Date: 2 Apr 92 19:46:46 GMT
Reply-To: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
Organization: F.S.U. Dept of Physics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4


  Does anyone know of a Tektronix, preferably 4010, emulator for the 
Decstations?

			Roger Books
			books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: disassociate X display from system console
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:42:04 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <1992Apr13.223435.28022@coco.ms.washington.edu> rcf@coco.ms.washington.edu (Richard Fairfield) writes:
>
>We have several DS 5000s with 19" monochrone monitors. These things
>are sitting in computer rooms and we are getting no use out of the large
>screens.
>
>I'd like to leave the cpu/disks/tapes etc in the computer rooms, put
>longer cables on the consoles and put them in a public terminal area for use
>as X terminals. Then I'd use plain crts for system consoles.
>
>If I do this I do not want the 19" monitors to be system consoles any more.
>
>So I guess what I need to do is redirect console to one of the serial
>ports instead of the the X device. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
>
>
>Also, I can't find longer monitor/mouse cables in the DEC hardware catologues.
>Do they exist?
>
>						Thanks for any and all help,

Hmmm, I cannot really understand why you want to do that....
Why must you have the consoles in the computer rooms??
Why can't you put the whole hardware in the public area? Could they be
stolen? That would be the *only* reason for not doing that.

Our "data center" is not in the computer rooms anymore, it is distributed
all over the rooms (read offices) which have computers!
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  Research Support Division                 Unix & Open Systems
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: "Ray Butterworth [MFCF]" <rbutterw@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Subject: Problem with shutdown(2) on ultrix 4.2 VAX.
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:05:36 GMT

This program should simply execute the remote command
(on the same host) and echo the results.
It works fine on all our systems except Ultrix 4.2 MIPS.

With that system, the call to shutdown(rem, 1), which is supposed to
send an EOF indication to the remote process, seems to shut down the
socket in both directions rather than only in the one direction.

Note that delaying a little before doing the shutdown allows some
of the data through, and delaying until the process is finished
allows the rest through.

Is there a fix for this?

And in the meantime, is there some way to work around the problem?
There almost certainly must be, since /usr/ucb/rsh seems to work correctly.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

===========================


taipan[1]# cat shutdownbug.c
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <netdb.h>

main(argc) {
    auto char *host = "localhost";
    auto struct servent *sp;
    auto int rem;
    auto int child;
    auto char input[1];

    if (0 == (sp = getservbyname("shell", "tcp"))) {
        perror("getservbyname(shell,tcp)");
        exit(1);
    }

    if (0 > (rem = rcmd(&host, (unsigned)sp->s_port, "rbutterw",
        "rbutterw", "/u/rbutterworth/testing", (int*)0))) {
        perror("rcmd");
        exit(1);
    }

    if (0 > (child = fork())) {
        perror("fork");
        exit(1);
    }

    if (child == 0) {
        sleep(3*(argc-1));
        /* This seems to shut down the socket in BOTH directions */
        (void) shutdown(rem, 1);
        exit(0);
    }

    while (1 == read(rem, &input[0], 1))
        write(1, &input[0], 1);

    (void) kill(child, SIGKILL);
    exit(0);
}


taipan[2]# cat ./testing
#!/bin/sh

   echo starting
   sleep 4
   echo done

taipan[3]# cc shutdownbug.c

taipan[4]# ./a.out

taipan[5]# ./a.out three-seconds
starting

taipan[6]# ./a.out three-seconds and-three-more
starting
done

taipan[7]#

===========================
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