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From: djm@dmntor.UUCP (David McKellar)
Subject: "Spring Forward" hurt cron
Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 18:09:07 GMT

[Sorry if this has been discussed but I was out of town and my feed is having
problems.]

My system had problems because of the spring time change.  After the change
(2AM) on some of my machines cron only worked intermittently and on
others it didn't work at all!  This caused a big hassle as I rely on cron
heavily.

Did this happend to anyone else ?
Is there a workaround - besides not using cron ?
If its a bug is Sun aware of it ?  (I have 4.1.1)

Please reply by mail - thanks.
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From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Date: 6 Apr 1992 01:07:33 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alhena.usc.edu

merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:

>Performance figures from BRLCAD 4.0 ray tracing benchmarks:
(I deleted many machines)

>                      MOSS    WORLD     STAR     BLDG      M35   AVERAGE
>          SCO '386  502.33   256.52   200.18   189.17   234.89    276.61
>          SUN4/260  827.25   436.38   361.89   348.99   422.19    479.34
>          SCO '486 1363.98   671.59   564.85   527.15   684.87    762.48
>          SUN ELC  1556.66   800.18   722.95   708.21   858.90    929.38
>The 80386-33 had 64KB cache and 8MB main memory.  
>The 80486-33 had 256KB cache and 8MB main memory.

(Is Sun 4/260 the SS2?)
Is this not a bit peculiar, to say the least?  How the ELC the
fastest of the group?

Can someone who knows the ELC hardware comment on what makes it
faster than the SS2?

-- 

Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: skhuang@ccsun1 (Shih-Kun Huang)
Subject: /etc/resolv.conf can't work for non-YP machines
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 12:28:13 GMT

I can setup our SUNs to know DNS by setting the YP 
master server with "-B" option. And as I know, you
can just edit /etc/resolv.conf to add your domain name
server and obtain DNS. It works for RS-6000 and IRIS, but
not for SUNs. Does anyone know the reason ?

Shih-KUn Hunag
skhuang@csie.nctu.edu.tw
skhuang@ccsun1.csie.nctu.edu.tw
From: jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: ifconfig vs routed at boot time
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:15:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: linus.1992Apr15.201520.405
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA


  Here is the problem. I have a two Sun IPX running 4.1.1.  I have
installed a second ethernet card "le1" in both of them, added
hostname.le1, altered /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts to reflect the new
card. As it goes through the normal boot sequence (running all the
rc.*) the interfaces are configured and it issues an ifconfig -a
which shows everything configured properly. but nothing works -
I can't ping anything. I then (I am afterall root) issue an
ifconfig le0 inet <address> and lo and behold everything works - I
can ping anywhere, through both interfaces. Something somewhere is
stepping all over some variable. As a temporary fix I put the 
ifconfig le* inet <address> command at the bottom of the rc.local
file. Further experimentation seems to show that the problem involves
routed which is fired up in rc.local but I really don't understand
what is going on. The manuals are less than clear. Any advice would be
appreciated. 

                                  Jerry Freedman,Jr
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: burton@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton)
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:07:01 GMT

In article <ku01m5INNgpu@alhena.usc.edu> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>
>>Performance figures from BRLCAD 4.0 ray tracing benchmarks:
>(I deleted many machines)
>
>>                      MOSS    WORLD     STAR     BLDG      M35   AVERAGE
>>          SCO '386  502.33   256.52   200.18   189.17   234.89    276.61
>>          SUN4/260  827.25   436.38   361.89   348.99   422.19    479.34
>>          SCO '486 1363.98   671.59   564.85   527.15   684.87    762.48
>>          SUN ELC  1556.66   800.18   722.95   708.21   858.90    929.38
>>The 80386-33 had 64KB cache and 8MB main memory.  
>>The 80486-33 had 256KB cache and 8MB main memory.
>
>(Is Sun 4/260 the SS2?)
>Is this not a bit peculiar, to say the least?  How the ELC the
>fastest of the group?
>
>Can someone who knows the ELC hardware comment on what makes it
>faster than the SS2?
>
>-- 
>
>Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu

I don't think the Sun 4/260 is a SS2. A 4/260 was one of the
early first generation Sun RISC machines, the SS2 (and ELC) are
about 3rd or 4th generation RISC machines...in terms of chronological
order of product releases:
                                   --> SS2
                                 /
Sun 4/??? ----> SS1 ----> SS1+ --
                                 \
                                   --> SS ELC

The ELC is not faster than the SS2...

John
From: skb@ute-cmi.ctcpc.cypress.com (Scott Butler, MN, x5036, (612) 894-6562)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: "Spring Forward" hurt cron -FIX
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:08:52 GMT
Reply-To: skb@ute-cmi.ctcpc.cypress.com
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Inc.

Oops! I forgot the patch info.  Here it is:

-> A number of folks have asked where they can ftp the cron 
-> patch for SunOS 4.1.1.  Apparently the patch is not available
-> from the more prominent ftp sites.  Since the D-day is just a
-> few days away, I will put the patch in my local anonymous ftp
-> area for a limited time.  What I have available is only the
-> sparc, SunOS 4.1.1 executable.  I don't have any Sun-3's so
-> I don't keep patches for them.
-> 
-> Server: ftp.eng.auburn.edu [131.204.10.91]
-> Directory: /patches
-> Filename: 100520-01.tar.Z
-> /usr/5bin/sum: 59949 51 100520-01.tar.Z
-> /usr/bin/sum: 20959    26
-> 
-> Please note: I don't intend to be a patch supply site for the
-> internet (unless someone wants to "donate" to the cause :-)
-> The patches I get are from Sun's dialup patch service.  As
-> with anything you get over the net anonymously, there is no
-> warranty or guarantee that the product works, doesn't work,
-> doesn't break something else, or anything.  ftp and use at
-> your own risk.
-> 
->  Richard Elling                           Manager of Network Support
->  Auburn University                        Engineering Administration
->  richard.elling@eng.auburn.edu   KB4HB [44.100.0.72]   (205)844-2280
->  rm -r *... Homey don't think so!
-> 


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From: mdl@tx.cypress.com (J. Matt Landrum)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:48:04 GMT
	<1992Apr7.191502.4185@ultra.com> <1992Apr9.052425.21767@ukw.uucp>
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center
In-reply-to: lupe@ukw.uucp's message of 9 Apr 92 05:24:25 GMT

>The ELC and SS2 have the same CPU.  When you boot an ELC or an SS2, they
>both say "cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/25".  In a couple of quick tests that I
>just ran, an SS2 and ELC ran at just about the same speed.

SunOS Release 4.1.1 (SPARC2) #7: Wed Feb 19 20:05:37 CST 1992
Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
mem = 32768K (0x2000000)
avail mem = 30818304
Ethernet address = 8:0:20:e:16:c8
cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/75
           
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: davee@mitre.org (David N. Edwards)
Subject: Phone Number for DataProducts
Originator: davee@lightning
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:42:56 GMT

Greetings,

     I'm trying to connect a DataProducts B600 line printer to my 4/490 server.
Would anyone happen to have a phone number for DataProducts?  Please E-mail and
thanks in advance!
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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:24:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>The ELC and SS2 have the same CPU.

Nope.

My little "whichiufpu" program, which reports the IU and FPU on the
machine based in the values in the PSR and FPSR, as run on my SS2:

bootme% whichiufpu
IU is Cypress 7C601 or LSI Logic L64811 version 2
FPU is TI TMS390C602A

and as run on somebody else's ELC:

ayers2% whichiufpu
IU is Weitek W8701 or Fujitsu MB86903
FPU is on the same chip as the IU

The ELC and IPX use the Weitek or Fujitsu chips mentioned; they have
both IU and FPU on the chip.  The SS2 uses the 7C601 for its IU, and (at
least according to the stuff in the back of the copy of the SPARC
Version 8 architecture manual I have) the TI chip in question (or an
equivalent) as its FPU.

>When you boot an ELC or an SS2, they
>both say "cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/25".

Perhaps *your* SS2 does; *mine* says "cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/75".

>In a couple of quick tests that I
>just ran, an SS2 and ELC ran at just about the same speed.

Interesting, because the ELC's CPU chip runs at 33 MHz and the SS2's
runs at 40 MHz, and I think I saw some SPEC results that showed that the
Weitek and Fujitsu chips give about the same performance at 40 MHz as
the 7C601 does at 40 MHz.

Are you sure the machine you think is an SS2 really *is* an SS2? 
Perhaps it's really an ELC, which would explain the equal performance
and the claim of being a "Sun 4/25" when booted....
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From: larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Date: 10 Apr 92 11:48:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr10.114831.4394
Organization: Feeds-R-Us

yergeau@outpost.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes:

>I was going to stay out of this, but...

>In article <ku2su7INNa3@alhena.usc.edu>, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay
>Shah) writes:
>|> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>|> 
>|> >My 486-33, 256K, 8MB, 210MB, ATI Graphics Vantage, 72HZ/NI, WD8003e
>= $2,400.00
>|> 

>Is that with (SCO) Unix, a development environment, etc?  All of these
>come bundled with the Sun.

No -- but you can't get into a sun for $2400 can you? 

and last I heard sun was dropping their c-compiler from the development
package -- maybe that isn't true -- but somewhere here -- I saw mention
of that --


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Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
From: senese@schug.larc.nasa.gov (Fred Senese)
Subject: modem recommendations
Originator: senese@schug.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 23:36:47 GMT

I'm in the market for a 9600 baud modem for the SS1. Can you
recommend a particular model and vendor?  Any advice or experiences you
have to share would be greatly appreciated.

Fred
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:29:20 GMT

ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:

>>Performance figures from BRLCAD 4.0 ray tracing benchmarks:
>(I deleted many machines)

>>                      MOSS    WORLD     STAR     BLDG      M35   AVERAGE
>>          SCO '386  502.33   256.52   200.18   189.17   234.89    276.61
>>          SUN4/260  827.25   436.38   361.89   348.99   422.19    479.34
>>          SCO '486 1363.98   671.59   564.85   527.15   684.87    762.48
>>          SUN ELC  1556.66   800.18   722.95   708.21   858.90    929.38
>>The 80386-33 had 64KB cache and 8MB main memory.  
>>The 80486-33 had 256KB cache and 8MB main memory.

Does anyone have the numbers for the Amiga (And the configuration of the
Amiga it was running on)? 
Thanks in advance

Nish Patel  nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rc@netarch.com (Ran-Chi Huang)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Dumps failing on a Maxtor 1.7GB disk
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:54:52 GMT
Organization: Network Architecture Consulting

We recently added a Maxtor 1.7GB SCSI disk to a SPARCstation 2 running
SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B and created 2 filesystems on it.

The disk is a Maxtor Panther P1 SCSI drive and the format command reports:

	sd2: <Maxtor P1-17S cyl 1816 alt 2 hd 19 sec 83>

We have also patched the kernel with the following patch:

	Patch-ID# 100343-04
	Keywords: 1GB greater, disk, gigabyte
	Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1: sd.o patch to access scsi drive capacity
	                       beyond 1GB.
	Date: 11/05/91 
 
	SunOS release: 4.1.1
 
	Topic: 1.3GB Disk Drive Enhancement

Everything looks good except when we try to do a full dump with an
Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm tape drive.

Dump complains and produces the following error messages:

	DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Apr  9 01:07:31 1992
	DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
	DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd2f (/usr/local) to /dev/nrst0
	DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
	DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
	DUMP: estimated 262044 blocks (127.95MB) on 0.07 tape(s).
	DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
	DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
	DUMP: Tape write error 200 feet into tape 1
	DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") 
	DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") 

The following messages were also generated to /dev/console:

	esp0: Current command timeout for Target 2 Lun 0
	sd2:    SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command
	sd0:    SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command
	esp0:	Target 3 now Synchronous at 4.0 mb/s ma<3>zs0: silo overflow
	x<3>zs0: silo overflow
 	 transmit rate
	st0:	Error for command 'write', Error Level: 'Fatal'
    		Block: 1042
    		Sense Key: Unit Attention
	esp0:	Target 1 now Synchronous at 3.334 mb/s max transmit rate

Dumps on the other disk drives on the system were completed without
any problems.

Since we purchased the drive, we have been unable to do dumps of any
sort on the Maxtor 1.7GB drive.

If any netters have any suggestions as to what we can try, we'd really
appreciate it very much.

Perhaps we need to be putting other patches onto the system ? Because
of some proprietary software, we are unable to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.2.

As we do not access this newsgroup very often, please email your
responses. We'll summarize and post a follow-up message in due course.

Thanks for your help !

-rc
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Ran-Chi Huang                                               rc@netarch.com
Network Architecture Consulting., Fremont, CA                   netarch!rc
From: gseales@cerebus.cc.edu (Greg A. Seales)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Include files and Libraries
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:35:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3104
Reply-To: gseales@cerebus.cc.edu (Greg A. Seales)
Distribution: na
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
From: gseales@cerebus.cc.edu (Greg A. Seales)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Libraries and Include files
Reply-To: gseales@cerebus.cc.edu (Greg A. Seales)
Followup-To: 
Distribution: na
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
Keywords: 


	Where whould you go about finding libraries and include files that
	your system doesn't have?  Can they be ftp from somewhere?  I have
	some programs I got off of the news and they don't compile because
	I am missing include files.  We have a Sun Sparc Station IPC

	gseales@cerebus.cc.edu
	Carroll College
	Waukesha, WI 53186
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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: "Spring Forward" hurt cron
Date: 14 Apr 92 05:06:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32837
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz


This has been discussed to death, but only one message I have seen
mentioned that there is a patch for it 100520-01.  Now I'm trying
to find the patch; none of the usual archive sites seems to have it.
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art."
        Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 02:54:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.052425.21767@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
>shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr}) writes:
>
>>>Can someone who knows the ELC hardware comment on what makes it
>>>faster than the SS2?
>
>>The ELC and SS2 have the same CPU.  When you boot an ELC or an SS2, they
>>both say "cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/25".  In a couple of quick tests that I
>>just ran, an SS2 and ELC ran at just about the same speed.
>
>I can't believe this. The ELC has a 33 MHz clock rate, the SS2 and
>the IPX run at 40 MHz. I don't have either handy (this is an IPC),
>so I can't look at the boot message.

Our SS2 show "cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/75", and the ELC shows "cpu = SUNW,Sun 4/25".
From my experience their relative performance is close to the ratio of
their clock rates.

David
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SCO SYSV386 3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 80486-33 outperforms SUN SPARC 4/260
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:10:26 GMT
Organization: cic

burton@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) writes:

>I don't think the Sun 4/260 is a SS2. A 4/260 was one of the
>early first generation Sun RISC machines, the SS2 (and ELC) are
>about 3rd or 4th generation RISC machines...in terms of chronological
>order of product releases:
>                                   --> SS2
>                                 /
>Sun 4/??? ----> SS1 ----> SS1+ --
>                                 \
>                                   --> SS ELC

>The ELC is not faster than the SS2...

To get this straight, let me try to remember the
chronological sequence of SPARC models.

4/2x0
4/1x0
--------
SS1
--------
4/3x0
4/4x0
SS1+
SLC, IPC
--------
SS2
ELC, IPX
--------
4/6x0

Re: inheritance, the SLC/ELC are quite independent
machines; of course *all* desktop models are derived
from the SS1. The IPC and IPX are the smaller
brethren of the SS1(+) and SS2, respectively.
(The project name of the SS2 was Calvin, that of
the IPX was Hobbes!)

I would count the ELC as third generation desktop,
fourth generation total SPARC. The lines above
delineate my idea of SPARC generations. Actually
the SS1+ is in the same generation as the SS1,
being just a fast clocked variant of that machine.

Anybody with a better memory or a timetable want to
correct this ?
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From: choke@wet.UUCP (Sean Gallaty)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Sun at home mailing list information wanted
Summary: sun at home mailing list
Keywords: sun at home
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:07:18 GMT
Followup-To: choke@wet.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

I have recently heard about a mailing list called 'sun at home.'
If anyone is on this mailing list or knows how to subscribe to it,
I would appreciate if they would send me information about it.
I have a variety of sun equipment and the resources are needed.

Thanks in advance.




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From: brada@bardlover.Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Albom)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Using Sun shoeboxes on PCs?
Summary: Keep using them
Keywords: SCSI,PC
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:26:14 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bardlover

In article <schurech.702682618@shredder>, schurech@fnal.gov (Kurt Schurecht) writes:
> We are upgrading our Sun3/60s to Sparc2s and will have 5 leftover shoeboxes 
> with SCSI tape drives and 350MB ESDI disks with ESDI to SCSI controllers.  We 
> are wondering if we can use the shoeboxes on IBM PCs if we buy SCSI controllers
> for the PCs.  Has anyone done this?  Is there any reason why this wouldn't
> work?  Anyone have any other use for shoeboxes once the 3/60s are gone?
> 
> Kurt Schurecht

If you get an adapter cable (SCSI-mini connector to SCSI DB-50) and
set up internal disk target addresses so they don't conflict w/ SS2 disks,
you can continue to use them on the Sparcstations.  I haven't met
a user yet who would turn down extra disk space.

-brad a.
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