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From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Missing documentation - KBD, MOU and VIO
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:22:14 GMT

Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
            <715981801snx@sugs.tware.com>

In <715981801snx@sugs.tware.com> Hale Landis writes:
>In article <9209080106.AA19548@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>
>  > In <715895337snx@sugs.tware.com> Hale Landis writes:
>  > >Has anyone found the (missing) documentation for the KBD, MOU and
>  > >VIO functions in the OS/2 2.0 manuals?
>  >
>  > These APIs are not documented in any 2.0 technical manual because they are
>  > not supported in 32-bit mode.  They are supported in 16-bit mode which is
>  > what thunking is all about.  This is mentioned in one or two of the ToolKit
>  > Manuals for 2.0 but I forget which right now.  The actual description and
>  > syntax for these APis however must be looked up in the 1.x technical manuals.
>
>Sorry, but I think that is the wrong answer:  I don't have the
>1.x technical manuals and I bet few other people have them!  If
>these are supported, even if for backward compatibility, I should
>be able to find some reference to them in the 2.0 manuals.  Also,
>if they are considered 'old', then what replaces them?  How about
>some documentation to aid us old (read non-GUI) programmers that
>have programs that use these functions?
>
>My bet is that there are far more non-GUI (not PM) programs
>than there are GUI (PM) programs for OS/2.  I also would bet
>that a lot of these will get 'upgraded' to 2.0 without being
>converted to PM programs.  By not including any documentation
>(not even the slightest reference) that I can find in the 2.0
>manuals, IBM is not making life easy out here.
>


First off, there is no *wrong* answer; just answers that you might not like.
By definition (granted IBM's definition) the OS/2 V2.0 platform is a 32-bit
environment that uses PM as it's interface.  The manuals that support this
environment describe the functions (e.g. APIs) that you need to program and
use this environment.  Right or wrong, IBM's position (and I would think that
of MS and others that support GUI environments) is that all progams written
to this environment must use the supported GUI for I/O.  The fact that you
can use 'older' interfaces like VIO and KBD is besides the point.  They are
not part of the 'official' 32-bit PM platform and thus are not documented as
such.

The question you should really be asking, as have a number of IBMers, is why
the decision was made to not support 32-bit versions of the Kbd, Vio and Mou
APIs.  I myself have a number of important programs that use these APIs that
I must convert if I want to stay strictly 32-bit.

There are a few manuals that come with the 2.0 Technical Libary that describe
how to convert the non-GUI calls to 32-bit compatible GUI APIs (I forget which
right now).

I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but I hope this at least explains
why it's the way it is.
From: kushner@ux1.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: This can't be a bug, CAN IT?!?
Date: 13 Sep 1992 02:57:26 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: kushner@ux1.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.19

I'm trying to open up a presentation space using units other than pels and
I'm having a strange time!

When I open up a PS with _LOENGLISH and draw a square, and then with _HIENGLISH
and draw a square the _LOENGLISH square is << NOT >> 10 times bigger.

The manual says that _LOENGLISH is in units of .01 inches and that _HIENGLISH
is in units of .001 inches.  I would think that would mean that the same
coords would be scales by a factor of ten.  To me it seems to only be scales
by about a factor of 4 ?!?

Does ANYONE know what is going on???

I would really appreciate some insight here!

-Gary
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From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
Subject: Re: 2.0 fails miserably in the PARANOIA program ( was: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0 )
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:24:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.225858.6523@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
>
>You can get this program by FTP to
>        netlib@research.att.com

Address correction: should be research.att.com

Dov



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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Shared global memory between OS/2 and WIN-OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:20:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.185421.3713@ifi.unizh.ch> ban@ifi.unizh.ch (Bela Ban) writes:
>'m looking for a way to exchange data between a WIN-OS/2 session
>(full-screen or windowed) and an OS/2 session. Is there another way
>besides DDE ? E.g. shared global memory etc...?? (*Is* there such a
>thing as shared memory between a WIN-OS/2 session and an OS/2 session
>??)
>If this is the wrong newsgroup, please redirect me ...

Named pipes?

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From: brooke@cco.caltech.edu (Brooke Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: I want to learn how to do simple graphics, keyboard, and joystick I/O
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:23:14 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

That sounds really interesting (the stuff about your 3D work in OS/2).
So, how do I learn how to do these things?  Do I get a book on PM programming?
Or is it different if you want to use full-screen mode (i.e., is that still
controlled by the PM)?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Codeview barfing...
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:36:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep3.175957.16733@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Rumor has it that IBM has released a DPMI patch of some sort which
>allows C7 to run under OS/2 2.0.  More when I know more.

No rumor.  I downloaded the patch from software.watson.ibm.com.


-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
From: oneil@hns.com (Pat O'Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Help: Kernel Debugger
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:54:31 GMT
Distribution: hns
Organization: Hughes Network Systems Inc.

Thanks to all the people who responded to my request for help
with the Kernel Debugger.  I finally got it to work.
From the instructions that came with the installation disks,
I got the idea that you selected com1 or com2 as output by
a switch on the device= command for pmdd.sys in config.sys.

Once I realized that it was using com2, I was up and running.

Thanks again,
Pat O'Neil
Hughes Network Systems
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Problem with WM_ACTIVATE.
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:31:21 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep03.150929.24455@ans.net> db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes:
>In article <d#lnmz+.daveb@netcom.com> daveb@netcom.com (Dave Briccetti) writes:
>>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>>: Not really.  You'll have to remote-debug it.  You can't run a debugger
>>: on the same machine as the PM code you're debugging.  It halts lots of
>>: things. 
>>
>>What???  I've been doing it for years.  Occasionally I'll have to put
>>printf's in, but most of the time I do quite well with Codeview or IPMD.
>
>Well, I think David's comment should have been more along the lines of it can
>be somewhat difficult (or dangerous perhaps?) to run a debugger on the same
>machine as the PM code you are developing, but it's not impossible.  And until
>IPMD that debugger had to be a text mode debugger (ie: you couldn't use
>Multiscope in PM mode when debugging PM applications), and you had better make
>sure not to stop your program at a breakpoint in a message procedure and then
>Ctrl-ESC out of the debugger back to the PM screen.  Instant system hang.

OK. I normally debug code by single-stepping it through functions.
This clobbers a PM program if you do it on the same machine, since
single-stepping is the same as placing a breakpoint at every line.
-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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From: emh@dlogics.com (Ed Hovorka)
Subject: Exit program then weirdness
Organization: Datalogics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 21:32:45 GMT
Keywords: exit


I was wondering if anyone else has this problem.  I work on a 16-bit PM 
program that was developed and runs fine under OS/2 1.x.  Under OS/2 2.0, 
after the program exits normally, the program sometimes leaves the hash 
marks under the icon in the program's folder.  OS/2 also keeps related 
files locked.  It obviously thinks the program is still running.  It is not
easy to recreate, but it happens enough to disturb people who use the 
program.  The only thing I can think of that might be of interest is the 
DosExitList.  When I removed the exit handler, I never saw the problem,  but
since it is a rare problem, maybe I didn't test long enough.  The bottom 
line is that I need to have an exit handler installed.  Maybe OS/2 2.0 has 
a problem with this.  Again, this program works fine under OS/2 1.3.  I'm 
not necessarily looking for a solution, although one would be nice :) , but
I'm mostly interested in other people who see the same or similar problems 
on the exit of a program.

From MS C 6.0 BSEDOS.H
#define EXLST_ADD 1
#define EXLST_EXIT 3

My exit handler is set up with:  
       DosExitList( EXLST_ADD, ExitHandlerRoutine );

WinDdePostMsg is getting called in the exit handler.

My exit handling routine does end with:
       DosExitList(EXLST_EXIT, NULL);


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| "Mmmm... Laura Palmer"
|        - Homer Simpson after seeing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: C++ Compiler for OS/2, which is NOT GNIU
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:28:49 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <=6qngj#.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>My impression of Symantec (formerly Zortech) is that their C++ product
>development for OS/2 is essentially dead. I'm eagerly awaiting a
>commercial 32-bit C++ compiler for os/2, the acquisition of which will
>almost certainly lead to the archiving of the 16/32-bit dos C++
>compilers I currently play with.

I keep saying it (:-)), but how about Microway?  They've got their C++
for OS/2 out now.

Microway can be reached at Research Park, Box 79, Kingston, MA, 02364,
tel. 508-746-7341.

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From: dn@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Daniel Neades)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:57:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Borland C++ & OS/2
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Reply-To: dn@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Daniel Neades)

In article <1992Sep14.182102.4614@inel.gov>, jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A
Rich) writes:
|>I just purchased Borland C++ ver 3.1 for dos/Windows development and
would like to know how this product works under OS/2. Some people have
told me that I would have to back out of OS/2 and return to dos/windows
in order to properly use BC++, is this true|>?
|>
|>Also, if it does work, are there any installation 'Secrets' that need
to be addressed?
|>
|>Regards,
|> JR Rich
|>========== long legal disclaimer follows, press n to skip ===========

I've had no problems...Only thing you'd need to do is to set DPMI to ENABLED
in the dos settings box.

Oh, your long disclaimer (that is, the blank lines before it) is a real pain
when you're trying to do a followup :-)

Daniel.
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From: assela@aix.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin)
Subject: Re: OS/2 TCP/IP socket programming library for GNU/2
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:40:40 GMT

pclank01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Pat C. Lankswert) writes:

>What is the status of the programming library for TCP/IP sockets
>with the IBM TCP/IP package?

>When last I heard, it was in the works.  Since I have it coming to
>me in the next few days, I'd like to like to do some socket programming.

Pat,
   The programming package has been "done" for over 2 years!  It
was available for all versions of TCP/IP.  What it currently
lacks, however, is 32-bit support.  To date, you must still
have the MSC 6.0 package to use it.  The development team knows
this is a problem and is working on a 32-bit version (I don't
know about release dates, however).
       - Andre Asselin    (assela@rpi.edu)
From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Job wanted?
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:01:02 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I know that this is highly inappropriate for this newsgroup, but:

I am a very experienced OS/2 programmer with good qualifications and
experience in same using C.  If you are hiring and in the Westchester
County area of NY or know of someone, please send me email.

I'll explain upon contact why I am trying to switch jobs, if you're
interested.

I also have many good references, available upon request.

Cheers,
Q (Larry Salomon, Jr.)

P.S.  I am requesting Westchester County only because I am currently 
commuting 50 minutes to Stamford, CT and hate it, and can't move because
my fiancee and I have already "implemented" (ugh.  For lack of better
wording) a large portion of our wedding preparations.
-- 
"If you choose not to decide, you  | "A fool and his money are fun to go
 still have made a choice" - Rush  |  out with" - seen on a T-shirt
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From: merrill@optima.UUCP (Darren Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: C Set/2 CSD0014
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:03:01 GMT

From article <1992Sep14.201653.19531@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, by mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant):
> Is there an internet host which has C Set/2 CSD's ?  I can't find them on
> hobbes or watson.
> 
Hey Mark,
  I sent CS0014 up to hobbes late last week.  It is now in 
pub/os2/2.0/patches.

-darren


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Department of Computer Science  Compuserve: 76570,2526
University of Arizona    
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From: GG.MPD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michael Durket)
Subject: Opening LPTx in a DOS box
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:38:03 GMT

I have a simple test program that attempts to open
a printer port via the following:

    fopen("lpt1", "w");

(Actually, don't pay any attention to the mode, I've tried
 every single combination listed under the fopen call).

This is from a Microsoft C 6.0 program running in a DOS
window under OS/2.

The program can never successfully open the printer - it
always gets "permission denied".

I was under the impression, (from reading the redbooks) that
OS/2 allowed the printer ports to be opened but through
various intercepts redirected printer output from a DOS box
to the Spooler. Is this not the case?

This is really bugging me, because I worked up this simple
example from a rather complex program which actually manages
to open the printer in one configuration of the program but not
in others, and I don't see, given the above, how it could do
that (the actual OS/2 printer, spooler, etc are not being
changed between program runs).

Any ideas, suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

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From: rls@tip.wedge.nt.com (Robert L. Smith)
Subject: Re: OS2 Window Screen Control
Originator: rls@
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc., RTP, NC
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:37:22 GMT

    Thanks to the several people who suggested ANSI escape sequences,
issued via putch(), to take control of a text-mode screen.  As usual
it's obvious after the fact.
    Fortunately I have an old IBM DOS technical manual lying around
that describes the ANSI sequences, since a search of C-Set/2 and
WorkFrame2 documentation, both online and hardcopy, failed to turn
them up.  But that may be my fault.  There's a high art in picking the
right keyword, whether for hardcopy indices or "kwikinf".  The "ANSI"
keyword seems to be used up in promising ANSI-C conformance in the
compiler.

Regards, rLs
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: BASIC on OS/2?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:44:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.151303.18737@rock.concert.net> rls@tip.wedge.nt.com (Robert L. Smith) writes:
>    How do you run BASIC under OS/2 2.0?

Run QBASIC.  It is in \OS2\MDOS.

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From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: GCC-2.2.2(OS/2)-headerfiles
Keywords: headerfiles
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:48:05 GMT
Organization: Flinders University

In article <1992Sep8.195426.27246@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> maehner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Johannes Maehner) writes:
>
>
>example:
>stdio.h includes /sys/cdefs.h    (<- I don't have that file)
>stdio.h includes /machine/ansi.h (<- I don't have that file)
>
>question:
>How can I complete my installation ?

If you have ftp access grab gcchdr.zoo from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu:/pub/os2/2.0/programming/gcc2-2.2.2.

I will ask the moderator of c.b.os2 to repost this file.

Trevor Lampre
<mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
Flinders University of South Australia
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From: pclank01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Pat C. Lankswert)
Subject: OS/2 TCP/IP socket programming library for GNU/2
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:36:51 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

What is the status of the programming library for TCP/IP sockets
with the IBM TCP/IP package?

When last I heard, it was in the works.  Since I have it coming to
me in the next few days, I'd like to like to do some socket programming.

If it is not done, can I help?  Or see what you have already?

Pat Lankswert/Piling Higher and Deeper/U. of Louisville/KY/USA
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From: johns@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (John Stone)
Subject: Re: I want to learn how to do simple graphics, keyboard, and joystick I/O
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 05:39:21 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla


Hi there!

Here is some more info on what I've got:
I've been working on some more stuff, I have done a really simple
3d perspective projection library, just enough to see if I should
pursue 3d, I've been VERY encouraged by the speed ;-)

If you have seen the "unreal" demo (on wuarchive.wustl.edu) that
has the moving fractal landscapes in 3d (plotted with lots of points...)
I've been able to duplicate the effect in 32 bit OS/2 :-)

I should be uploading 3 demo programs to hobbes in the next few days,
one is a volcano simulation (just a cute little thing) that uses 
a point aggregation algorithm with trajectory to build up a volcano...

The second demo is a cellular automata demo that I adapted from 
psuedocode in an old Scientific American (did it 2 years ago in pascal,
and I just rewrote it in C with my graphics lib)

The third is my favorite, it uses more of what OS/2 is good at :-)
It is my own version of the Landscapes section of the unreal demo
that everyone has been seeing lately... (from the Assembly '92 demos)
I allocate storage for 160,000 altitude points, and fill it with either
a 3D sinewave, or a fractal landscape (may add a few other things before
putting it on hobbes) and I use an integer 3d projection routine that
I wrote to animate/rotate these 3d surfaces... (using lots of points like
the unreal demo)

You can see how I handle screen switching in the cells.exe demo, in that
one I keep calculating new frames even when it isn't in the foreground,
in volcano, I just ignore switching (I allow it, but I don't save the screen
before allowing the switch, so if you could trash it, although I haven't
been able to yet...)
In the 3d program, I don't allow screen switching during the rendering, 
because I need as much speed as possible, but I may change that...  
I use VioScrLock() to get the screen, and I use the status param
to detect if I actually got it or not... (in the case of non-blocking)

anyway, give me a couple more days and I'll release the elementary stuff
that I have done so far.

I REALLY need to get on the ball with a lot of 2D library stuff like
floodfills, filled polys (need these to continue with the 3d stuff too)
and stuff like bitblts (for games etc)

I have had no luck with getting Mouxxxxx() calls to work in 320x200 yet.

Later,
        John Stone
        johns@cs.umr.edu


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From: maehner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Johannes Maehner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: GCC-2.2.2(OS/2)-headerfiles
Keywords: headerfiles
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:54:26 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Originator: maehner@hphalle2b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de


I have extracted GNUCC 2.2.2 for OS/2 2.0.
Some headerfiles include further headerfiles which wasn't
shipped with my gcc2.2.2-package. In common, the headerfiles
which I don't have should by located in the directories 
"sys" resp. "machine".

example:
stdio.h includes /sys/cdefs.h    (<- I don't have that file)
stdio.h includes /machine/ansi.h (<- I don't have that file)

question:
How can I complete my installation ?
From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Using GCC and F2C under 4OS2
Date: 15 Sep 1992 19:28:06 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University

In article <1992Sep15.162225.16353@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> bradleyt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Todd Bradley) writes:
>
>I've got the F2C (Fortran to C converter) and GCC programs
>working now, but I was wondering if anyone has put together
>a batch file which could be called to compile Fortran dire-
>ectly.
>
>What I'm thinking of is a 4OS2 batch file (or even just CMD.EXE)
>called F77.CMD which would parse a normal f77 command line and
>call F2C, GCC, and LINK386 as required with the appropriate
>options.
>
>Does anyone have such a thing or suggestions on writing one?
>I'd hate to take the time to write something if somebody else
>already has a batch file to do what I want.
>
>Todd.
>
How about using make instead -- or a .CMD file that implements make if
you prefer.
    -- Bruce



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