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From: teresa@syscon.rn.com (Teresa Selling)
Subject: SLIP problems again
Organization: Syscon Corporate Headquarters - South Bend, IN USA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:29:51 GMT

I have been successfully using slip with AIX 3.2.1 on on a couple of RS/6000's.
However a new system which is preloaded (I don't know if its 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 or
3.2.3) is a nightmare when it comes to slip.  I have everything set up as on
the machines that work, but ping doesn't work from either direction.  The
modem receiving the ping has a Receive Data light that comes on, but the 
Send Data light never comes on.  Does anyone know if there are any changes
I should be aware of between 3.2.1 and later versions of AIX?

Also I seem to remember someone posting a fix/workaround for hardware
handshaking.  I'd appreciate it if someone would email me a copy of that.
Thanks.

-- 
Teresa Selling
Syscon - Plantstar, Inc.
South Bend, IN 46627
(219) 232 -3900 ext. 257
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: More IBM "oversights"
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:14:42 GMT

In article <4348@unisql.UUCP> wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
>The xlc compiler is absolutely recalcitrant about accepting
>anything like " Window foo = NULL".  But the X11 headers
>are full of stuff like "XtWindowOfObject(object) != NULL"
>which of course won't compile with the native compiler.

Where are you looking?  I just checked all the X11R5 header files and found
nothing like that.  I found _one_ misuse of NULL in the AIX 3.1 X header
files, which is easily fixed by changing NULL to 0 in the macro definition.
I don't see why you conclude that the X11 headers are "full of" such
constructs.

Comparing an integer to a pointer is a bug, and xlc is right to report an
error.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lebowits@eagle.bet.ibm.com (Steven Lebowitz)
Subject: ANSI BASIC for AIX
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:29:09 GMT
Organization: IBM FSC - Bethesda, Maryland
Keywords: BASIC,AIX

Is anyone aware of an ANSI BASIC compiler for AIX?

E-mail replies welcome.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mjp@austin.ibm.com  (Michael J. Phelps)
Subject: Re: How do I set the gamma correction?
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 13:21:56 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


In article <102308@netnews.upenn.edu>, holder@central.cis.upenn.edu (Gaylord Holder) writes:
|> I have a new RS6000/580 that I have to put a thrid party monitor on.
|> It is an SGI multi-sync monitor, and the picture comes through fine,
|> but the gamma correction is wrong.  SGI uses a gamma of 1.7, and IBM
|> uses 2.4 (according to InfoExplorer).  
|> 
|> Is there a way to change the gamma the hft device driver uses?  
|> 
|> -Gaylord
|> 

On the sabine (hiperf3d) adapter, the gl call will set the gamma function.  I 
don't know if the other IBM adapters support setting gamma.  Out of curiousity
where in infoexplorer was the gamma=2.4 reccommended?  My experience with the
5081/6091 displays (working with antialiasing) was that 1.6 - 1.7 was the 
appropriate gamma value.  
BTW we were performing gamma correction on the color table prior to loading it.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: Re: How do I set the gamma correction?
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:52:48 GMT

mjp@austin.ibm.com  (Michael J. Phelps) writes:


>In article <102308@netnews.upenn.edu>, holder@central.cis.upenn.edu (Gaylord Holder) writes:
>|> I have a new RS6000/580 that I have to put a thrid party monitor on.
>|> It is an SGI multi-sync monitor, and the picture comes through fine,
>|> but the gamma correction is wrong.  SGI uses a gamma of 1.7, and IBM
>|> uses 2.4 (according to InfoExplorer).  
>|> 
>|> Is there a way to change the gamma the hft device driver uses?  
>|> 
>On the sabine (hiperf3d) adapter, the gl call will set the gamma function.  I 
>don't know if the other IBM adapters support setting gamma.  Out of curiousity
>where in infoexplorer was the gamma=2.4 reccommended?  My experience with the
>5081/6091 displays (working with antialiasing) was that 1.6 - 1.7 was the 
>appropriate gamma value.  

On my system, searching info for "gamma" and "correction" in exact order
brings up a small article entitled Gamma Correction, which states:

To achieve a linear response from the monitor, the system must vary the input voltage by some exponent.  The exponent is called the monitor's gamma.  Linear response is achieved on standard RISC System/6000 monitors with a gamma of 2.4.  The system uses a hardware lookup table to compensate for nonlinear response.
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IBM Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lpickup@xanadu.btv.ibm.com (Lance Pickup)
Subject: Re: AIX .profile file
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:07:57 GMT
Reply-To: lpickup@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Technology Products

In article <1992Dec17.115739.1@evax0.eng.fsu.edu>, willis@evax0.eng.fsu.edu writes:
...
|> alias ps="ps -pa"
|> alias ls="ls -la"

Try using the -x option of alias to export your aliases.

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From: wacker@ampere.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Klaus Wacker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: SIOCADDRT: Do not specify an existing file.
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:29:02 GMT

SIOCADDRT: Do not specify an existing file.

The above line appears quite often in the routed log file, when the -t
option is specified. Can somebody explain what it means? What file is
he talking about?

Please respond by email. I follow this newsgroup only via the digest,
which usually means a few days delay.

Thanks.
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From: sjg@tenet.edu (Stuart Greenfield)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX Conference
Date: 14 Dec 92 02:12:00 GMT

  I was at a book signing and speaking with someone about the Internet
and our implementing it our RS6000, when someone mentioned an upcoming
AIX conference. They were not sure when it will be, so if anyone knows,
please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: john@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (John Hogan)
Subject: hitachi cd rom 3750 driver wanted
Keywords: hitachi, rs/6000, cd rom
Organization: CSC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:02:26 GMT


Does anyone have a driver (AIX 3.2.2) for the Hitachi CDR3750 CD
ROM drive?  This would be for use as a SCSI-attached
device on an IBM RS/6000 (Model 350).

Please respond via e-mail to

   ecsvax!john@uncecs.edu
 
or call
   John Hogan
at (212) 563 3006 ext. 259

Thanks,

John Hogan
CDPlus
333 7th Avenue
6th Floor
New York, NY 10001
From: minyard@zoyd.ae.utexas.edu (Tommy Minyard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Error messages under Bash shell
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:41:20 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Organization: CFD Lab, Dept ASE-EM, University of Texas at Austin



We have two RISC model 320 stations both running AIX 3.2.1 and using
the Bash shell.  We found that error messages do not appear when
running the bash shell.  This includes compilation messages and general
error messages such as 'file not found'.  We were wondering if anybody
knows how to fix this under the bash shell.  We tried using ksh and 
the error messages worked.  We prefer bash and would hate having to go
back to ksh.  Could somebody help??

						Tommy
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs.printers
From: wayne@ita.lgc.com (Wayne McCormick)
Subject: Configuring networked printers [How to]
Organization: Landmark/ITA Inverse Theory and Applications
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:32:01 GMT


I've got a site that has an IBM RS-6000 Model 550 file server hooked into a
Gandalf Access Server.  To this server is connected a number of Dos based
PC's running PC/TCP and a terminal emulator called Termite (required for
the database we're running on the RS).

Now, what I need to do is hook some printers into a GTS-1000 Terminal Server
(the printers will actually be located at remote sites, there could also be
a dos based networked PC there).  Can someone help me out.  I need to know
how to configure the 550 and the terminal server so that the printers will
work correctly.

Additionally, is it possible to use those printers from a dos application on
one of the networked PC's?

I'm running in a bit of a tight time frame, so any help will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Wayne
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                                 | Phone:(403) 269-4669
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lebowits@eagle.bet.ibm.com (Steven Lebowitz)
Subject: Cluster Terminal Servers w/ "Load Balancing" Feature
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:22:38 GMT
Organization: IBM FSC - Bethesda, Maryland

I am looking for some kind of front end server for a DCE cluster of 
RS/6000's.  Users will get to the server via Procomm & Kermit over
an Ethernet, and then from the server to a machine in a DCE cluster.

The hard part is that I want the server to perform some kind of load
balancing amongst the systems in the cluster.  It could be just a simple
"round-robin" strategy amongst open connections.

Is anyone aware of a device that would perform this function?

Please reply via email.  I'll summarize responses if there is enough 
interest.
From: meilak@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX TELNET problem
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:12:54 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

Here's a question for the AIX wizards out there.

We have a AIX 3.2 Powerstation 220 (RS6000) with a telnet problem.
When a normal user tries to telnet to another host eg: $telnet hostname
the command just returns with return code 1 and produces the following 
error in syslog: telnet: auditproc: Not owner.

When root does a telnet, it works, no problems.

Does anyone have any ideas?, solutions.


Thanks In Advance

bjm.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: csh@lanl.gov (Chuck Henkel)
Subject: Alternate source for FDDI cards for 220?
Reply-To: henkel@nepjt.ncsu.edu (Chuck Henkel)
Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Company
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:14:10 GMT

We're looking at putting FDDI cards in our 220 workstations but are
somewhat hesitant to pay more for the FDDI card (~$4000) than we paid
for the workstation. Are there any third-party solutions?

--
Chuck Henkel
Westinghouse Savannah River Company                      
csh@lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: legend@cheshire.oxy.edu (Linda A. Malcor)
Subject: Re: 2 questions - internet name and print queue
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:25:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.224237.6780@edsi.plexus.COM> calb@edsi.plexus.COM (Calvin Bolwerk) writes:
>
>I am wondering if there is a way to tell what the name is of the 
>station that a person is logged in on.  I want to set up the 
>system so that after login, an x-session is initiated.  The 
>problem is that we have a few stations that are RS6000's and a few 
>that are remote PC's.  I would run different xinit files depending 
>on what type of station is lodding on.
>

I would be very interested in an answer to this question. We use IBM's 
AADU (AIX Access for DOS Users) product. It is a bit of a dog, and I have
always assumed that the lack of infomation was it's fault. recently we 
added some new connections that come in over a router and receive their
IP address dynamicly. Strangely enough the "Dynamic" IP address is visable
in the listing I get from the "last" command (of course it does not tell me
where the users is!). Each of the AADU machines has an assigned IP address
yet I cannot access that data, why? Sorry for rambling so, any ideas?

                               Daniel Malcor
                    Los Angeles Times - Editorial Library
                          Systems Analyst/Programmer
                          Work Phone: (213) 237-4590
                       INTERNET: legend@cheshire.oxy.edu
From: moniot@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu (Robert Moniot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: cannot unmount /usr to run fsck
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:39:03 GMT
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math

We are running AIX 3.2.2. I would like to use fsck to fix some
problems with the /usr partition.  Of course, /usr has to be unmounted
in order for fsck to make changes.  But /usr cannot be unmounted
because /bin, where ksh (root's shell) is, has been symbolically
linked to /usr/bin.  Also /etc/fsck has been symbolically linked to
/usr/sbin/fsck.  The only fix I can see is to (a) copy /bin/ksh to
someplace in the root partition, and change root's SHELL to be the
copy, and (b) copy /etc/fsck there also.  Then when running in
maintenance mode, hopefully /usr will not be busy and can be
unmounted.

Before I do this, I'd like to know if anyone else has solved this
problem, and (flame on) am I jumping to conclusions or is it
brain-damaged for IBM to set the filesystems up this way? (flame off)

--


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Fordham University
College at Lincoln Center
New York, NY  10023  (212) 636-6331

BitNet:   MONIOT@FORDMULC
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
Subject: Re: xterm and utmp
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:34:25 GMT
Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin

In article <mdm.724555881@argus.apple.com> mdm@apple.com writes:
>
>Hi all.
>
>In the man page for aixterm, it states that I can avoid having an
>entry placed in /etc/utmp if I specify the flag -ut.  I WANT an entry
>(so that I can see how many times I'm logged in with 'who'), so I
>DON'T specify -ut, but that doesn't work.  +ut doesn't work, either,
>and if I check the process list, it does confirm that I'm on multiple
>ptys.
>
>Any ideas out there?

This was just posted; I don't know if this will help.  Perhaps, your 
xterm was not built to allow utmp logging:

>Article: 18970 of comp.unix.aix
>From: millert@nordsieck.cs.Colorado.EDU (Todd C. Miller)
>Subject: Re: Why does xterm not put in a utmp entry?
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:33:15 GMT
>
>Adding the following to main.c will work:
>#ifdef AIX3
>#define HAS_UTMP_UT_HOST
>#endif /* AIX3 */        
>
>Alternately you could just add -DHAS_UTMP_UT_HOST to MAIN_DEFINES in the
>Makefile or Imakefile.
>
> - todd

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From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: CATIA on RS6ks?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:35:15 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost

I didn't *really* want to know this, butttttttttt...

If anyone has first-hand experience, I'd welcome some sort of
assessment on the product, mostly in terms of a systems-load and
systems-administration perspective.  I will summarize to comp.unix.aix
if there is sufficient interest.

						...Mike

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From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xlf preprocessor problems
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:35:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BzD22v.HLp
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign

ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts) writes:

>We tried to use the precompiler options -P, -Pv, and -Pk (xlf 2.2 and 
>Aix 3.2.1). Unfortunately only the "-Pk" produced an executable (after 
>invoking /usr/lpp/xlf/bin/fppk). Both other options resulted in:
>
>  xlf: 1501-224 fatal error in /usr/lpp/xlf/bin/fpp: signal 11 received
>
>What can be wrong ??

I find the following statement in README.xlc, where it states that it
also can apply to xlp and xlf.  It's not in README.xlf, and I've no idea
whether it could apply to an error in fpp.  Is your paging space low?

 6) RUNNING LOW ON PAGE SPACE:  If AIX runs low on page space during
    a compilation, the compiler tries to issue the message
    "1501-229 Compilation ended due to lack of space".
    However, in some cases the compiler may issue the message
    "1501-224 fatal error in X: signal 9 received",
    where X is either /usr/lpp/xlf/bin/xlfentry, /usr/lpp/xlc/bin/xlcentry,
    or /usr/lpp/xlp/lib/xlpentry.

--

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Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
IBM Champaign
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:12615 comp.unix.questions:14740
From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Parameters (density, length, etc.) needed for rdump
Keywords: density size length backup dump AIX 8mm Exabyte
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:41:04 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu

In article <Dec08.160718.36877@cdsac.uucp> scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
>In article <1992Dec7.195704.6742@athena.mit.edu> herrera@athena.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) writes:
>>I have been backing up using the Exabyte 8 mm. drive
>>that comes with my RS/6000, but I don't think I
>>am getting the whole capacity.  Although my tapes are
>>the longest ones (112 meters) available, it seems
>>that I cannot store more that about 1 gigabyte.
>
>Sounds like the tape device may be set for 512 byte blocks instead of
>1024 byte blocks. Use the 'smit tape' fastpath, select 'change/show
>characteristics', select the appropriate drive, and change blocksize to
>1024. Or type "chdev l rmt0 a block_size=1024".

You are better off doing: "chdev -l rmt0 -a blocksize=0"
This sets the tape up as variable length.  the advantage here is that
mksysb under v3.2 will setup your boot tape to work properly.  It
will setthe blocksize to 512 for the first 3 files needed to bopot from
tape and then switch back to a larger blocksize for the tar command
that backs up the entire rootvg.  This is what we do and have no 
problems.  The nice thing is you can fit more on the tape.

>
> 
>			   L. Scott Emmons
>		      CableData  Research Center
>		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
>				KC6NFP


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rap@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard A. Patterson)
Subject: Migration from Mainframe to RS6K
Keywords: migration,rs6k,rs6000,mainframe     
  I would like to hear from folks who have migrated from a mainframe    
  an RS/6000 environment.  Thanks.  
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:19:54 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: kehne@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: Problems with ext. disk on 520H
Originator: kehne@kehne.austin.ibm.com
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:55:20 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


What adapter to first external device cable are you using?   What and
where is the external termination?
SCSI busses are very sensitive to mixing matching different vendors
cables and terminators  (Try to use all the same; IBM internal so try
to use IBM external).
  Check the drive in external box to make sure it doesn't have a 
terminator on it.  If the external box has two scsi connection ports
cable in one and terminate on the other.

Kevin Kehne
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: scornd4@solomon.technet.sg (Ong Hian Leong)
Subject: Re: cannot unmount /usr to run fsck
Organization: TECHNET, Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:51:06 GMT


I got this out of the Problem solving guide, pg 4-3 (step 4.6)

   ln /dev/hdisk0 /dev/ipldevice
   importvg -y rootvg hdisk0
   varyonvg rootvg

Tried it too, works fine with me.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mdm@argus.apple.com (Michael McDaniel)
Subject: xterm and utmp
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:31:21 GMT
Reply-To: mdm@apple.com
Organization: Apple Computer Inc.


Hi all.

In the man page for aixterm, it states that I can avoid having an
entry placed in /etc/utmp if I specify the flag -ut.  I WANT an entry
(so that I can see how many times I'm logged in with 'who'), so I
DON'T specify -ut, but that doesn't work.  +ut doesn't work, either,
and if I check the process list, it does confirm that I'm on multiple
ptys.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks,
Michael
--
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Enterprise Systems Division      {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mdm
Apple Computer, Inc.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: NFS, /dev
Keywords: NFS, mounting /dev
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:52:04 GMT

rriv@oural.inria.fr (Robert Riviere) writes:

>In article <BzBJA2.Apn@austin.ibm.com> curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
>>
>>You cannot use NFS to write to a device file across the network.
>>NFS is stateless, which means the open() doesn't even go across the wire.
>>Devices like to see their open()s so they can initialize and whatnot.
>>

>There is a thing about this which seems strange to me :
>on some systems exists an mount option 'nodev' when mounting by NFS

>What is it for ?

Devices inodes on NFS filesystems are interpreted local to the machine.
(E.g., /dev is NFS mounted on a diskless client). The nodev prevents
this interpretation as it wuld give the superuser on the remote
system the ability to create device nodes with permissions to
his liking (e.g., /dev/mem, /dev/kmem) and compromise the integrity
of the client. ``nodev'' is similar to nosuid.

Casper
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Flakey problems with IBM 8mm tape drive
Date: 20 Dec 92 01:56:22 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <2B30E7E3.8595@ics.uci.edu> raj@ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson) writes:
>We have an IBM RS/6000 model 520 system with an IBM 8mm tape drive attached
>(along with other SCSI disk drives enough to use up all SCSI unit numbers on
>the controller in case it makes any difference).  Recently this 8mm drive
>began complaining most of the time about bad tapes (Specifically the infamous
>"Media Failure..." notice).

We had similar problems recently, and had to have IBM replace our
drive. Being unable to do backups/restores is not a fun experience...

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
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