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From: beauchem@roselin.DMI.USherb.CA (Denis Beauchemin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: 6386 + SNA problems
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:14:47 GMT
Organization: Sisca Informatique, Inc.

Hi there,

We wanted to install an SNA card into a 6386 computer but we found this note
in the manual that says clearly we shouldn't do it with the current ROM.

> On the 6386 WGS or 6386E WGS Computers, if you have a machine with ROM
> Version 1.13 installed, you will need to request a CYCLEGEN PAL V1.6
> Upgrade kit from the AT&T Hotline. The Hotline number is
> 1-800-922-0354. You must install this kit prior to installing any AT&T
> GPSC-AT and/or GPSC-AT/E Board.

We called the 800 number to be told it wasn't available anymore.  We then 
called the Montreal and Toronto offices to no avail: they were playing 
ping-pong with us!

I am now turning to this group to help me clear this up: do I really need
to install new ROMS to be able to install the GPSC card?  If so, how can I 
get them?

Thanks a lot!

Denis
--
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=== Dir. R&D           =================================
=== Sisca Informatique === Sun, AT&T and networks  ===
=== (819) 564-4003.    ==============================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: 3B2/600 Boot into Single User mode?
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 15:17:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep17.001546.16641@cfctech.cfc.com> kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:
> In article <1992Sep15.141720.2049@bjudev.UUCP> ppascoe@bjudev.UUCP (Phillip Pascoe) writes:
> >  My question is how can I boot
> >from power on and stop in single user mode?  I know how to boot the tape
> >and go through the partial restore headache but I would rather avoid that
> >if possible.
> 
> Edit /etc/inittab from magic mode, and change the initdefault to 1.
> 
> Yeah, it's ugly, but I've never found any better way to do it...

If you boot from tape/floppy, and then type "magic mode" (without the
quotes, of course) you'll be given an option for a shell.  Then you
can do a number of maintenance functions.  See the FAQ.

You can also delete the "initdefault" line from /etc/inittab, then
init will always ask which run-level you wish to enter.  Note that
run-level '1' is used to shut down from a higher level and enter
single user mode.  If you want to enter single user mode directly on
boot, you should use single user mode directly (i.e. 's' or 'S').
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

woods@robohack.UUCP, woods@Elegant.COM  VE3TCP	UniForum Canada & ECI
+1 416 443-1734 [home] +1 416 362-9772 [work]	Toronto, Ontario; CANADA
From: mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (T. Jerry Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2 Model 600's for sale
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:22:26 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network

In working with the 3B2 community, I found a couple of 3B2
model 600's for sale.  These are the standard issue, with 
hardware as follows:
	3B2 Model 600 with 4 megs ram,
	3 8-port Eports boards
	2 147 Meg SCSI disks, 1 720K floppy, 1 60 meg SCSI tape drive

Direct any interest to me or to
	Jimmy Dowdy
	Magna Tech
	169 Litton Drive
	Lexington, SC 29073
	Phone 803-957-4897-ext 103
	Fax 803-957-4864

If you only send email, send it to me at

=====================================================================
Thomas J. Scott  (aka Dr. J.)			Phone: 309-298-1452
Western Illinois University			mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: kamil@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Kamil Maheshwari)
Subject: CSCOPE sources?? I need em desperately.
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:26:51 GMT

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Netters,

Does anyone have CSCOPE (the source browser tool) running on their
SUN box? Is it possible to get the sources for this beast? I really
like working with cscope and can't seem to get it form any familiar
arch sites. I know its a public domain thing..

thanks very much in advance. Please e-mail your responses to me at
			     ****************************
kamil@alumni.cs.colorado.edu 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: ami@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ami Motro)
Subject: Mailx/Sendmail bug
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:04:21 GMT

Hello,

Using mailx and Wollongong TCP/IP on my 3b2/310 3.2.2.
I have this very nasty (and recurring) bug:

Whenever I mail something to an alias which is defined in .mailrc
as a LONG list of addresses, the header of the outgoing message
is screwed up entirely.  

In particular, the message appears to come FROM some of those 
addresses.  It's really embarassing because when a recipient 
respond casually to the message SENDER, he/she ends up sending
it to others.  And this is not the only problem in the header.

IS anybody aware of this problem?  Any ideas what could be done?

Thanks in advance,

Ami

ami@gmu.edu
From: bamford@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (harold.e.bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: CSCOPE sources?? I need em desperately.
Summary: cscope is NOT PD
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:49:07 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep30.222651.21309@colorado.edu> kamil@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Kamil Maheshwari) writes:
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Does anyone have CSCOPE (the source browser tool) running on their
>SUN box? Is it possible to get the sources for this beast? I really
>like working with cscope and can't seem to get it form any familiar
>arch sites. I know its a public domain thing..
>---------------------------------------------------------------------

Kamil, I don't mean to dump on you BUT:

Unfortunately, you know wrong.  cscope is NOT public domain.  It is
available within AT&T in binary via exptools for a variety of machines,
including SUN.  If you don't have exptools on your machine (why?) then
I suggest you send email to the provider of cscope: Joe Steffen
(king!steffen).

Please do not spread the rumor that this is PD.  It isn't.

-- Harold Bamford
From: MCGEE@lecs.ericsson.se ("Don H. McGee")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: EPORTS and TCP/IP for 3B2 wanted
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:54:00 GMT

I would like to buy or trade for the EPORTS package and TCP/IP
for a 3B2-310 running System V Rel. 3.1.

Followup to comp.sys.att or email, please. 
Thanks.

Don McGee     ecudhm@erigate.ericsson.se

Xref: sparky comp.sys.att:2287 comp.unix.sys5.misc:18 comp.unix.misc:3871
From: bob@bdofed.UUCP (n)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sys5.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: 3B2 feeling ill(Please HELP)!!
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:49:42 GMT
Organization: Etobicoke Board of Education, Ontario



HELP!!!

I have two 3B2 computers, 700 and 622, that have started to feel ill.

The 700 is worse than the 622 right now. I get the following message
comming up.

NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 1 page - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 10 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 111 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 152 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 17 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 180 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 2 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 286 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 32 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 82 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: dupreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 9 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: exece - Insufficient memory to allocate 8 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: growreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 11 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: growreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 3 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: growreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 45 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: growreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 7 pages - system call failed
NOTICE: growreg - Insufficient memory to allocate 9 pages - system call failed

Today I have 16 pages of errors for just this afternoon. When this happens
processes are killed and The user gets all sorts of strange messages. It
can be reported as 'no more processes' or 'killed'. We never exceed more that
250 out of 400 processes. When this happens I still have approx 26,000 blocks
of swap space free.

Specs:		AT&T 3B2/700
		28 MB ram
		1.2Gb disk	( 4-300Mb)
		9 track tape
		8mm tape
		120 Mb tape
		41??? block of swap.

Applications:	90% WP5.0/4.2
		10% oracle/2020

This is something new. These machine have run for years with very little
problems.

If you have any ideas or have encountered this problem please reply ASAP
by
	email:	uunet.ca!bdofed!bob
	phone:	1-416-394-7182		( even collect! I'm despirate!! )
From: tommy@hilbert.att.com (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Starlan and Logging Off
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:18:37 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:

$ I have a 6386 running AT&T SV/386 R3.2.2 with StarGROUP 3.2 software on
$ a LAN that services 21 PCs running the StarGROUP DOS client program. 20
$ of these are in a student lab and one is in my office.
$ 
$ Frequently after a lab session, I do a ps -ef and find that several
$ students are running "-ksh" over the lan. However, "who" doesn't see
$ them. Each has a process ID number and each is piling up humongous idle
$ time numbers.
$ 
$ Is this a potential problem? Why are they still "there"? Why doesn't
$ "who" see them?

I am not familiar with the DOS client program that allows a shell.  How
do you see the idle time numbers?  Usually, idle time on a UNIX system
is inconsequential.

They are not there in "who" because whatever logged them in did not
make an entry in /etc/utmp for them.
-- 
Tom Reingold
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
tommy@boole.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: rwilson@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Ron Wilson)
Subject: Re: PCNFSD needed
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit Mich.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:46:47 GMT

In article <BvF2oE.2pK@oat2.standard.com> jallen@oat2.standard.com (John Allen) writes:
>I need PCNFSD version 2.0 for the at&t 3b2 as well as
>the at&t 6386 machines running Unix 3.2.3x 
> 
>Does any one have these compiled?  I have the source

We need it too!

rlw@chem.wayne.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: thor@arrakis.denver.co.us (Robert B. Hood)
Subject: Re: GCC/3b2/310 bin location
Summary: A case of 'n'
Organization: Bob's Programming Paradise, Lakewood, CO, USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:40:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.052028.9362@serveme.chi.il.us> greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.220825.7984@arrakis.denver.co.us> thor@arrakis.denver.co.us (Robert B. Hood) writes:
>>It's likely that it is 1.29.  I pulled a file down from an AT&T computer
>>system a long while ago with the exact same name, drooling all the while that
>>it transferred, and found that it was an old (old) version, and couldn't
>>even get it to run.
>>
>>At any rate, the gcc3b2.tar.Z file is no where to be found on
>>statsi.bradley.edu.  I looked today (09/25) and it was not there, nor
>>on `erratic'.
>
>DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE GCC 2.2.2 STUFF I BUILT IS BEING STORED
>THESE DAYS?
>
>DOES ANYONE OFFER TO MAKE THE BINARIES AVAILABLE AT THEIR SITE?
>I'LL BE HAPPY TO UPLOAD THEM AGAIN.

Well, he sighed, his face tinted pinkish-red with mild embarassment,
I have found that Greg's version of 2.2.2 *does* operate correctly on
a model 300.  I have already sucessfully compiled several existing
programs with gcc with little or no additional beard growth or hair
loss.

My embarrasment comes as a result of telling Greg (eons ago, it seems)
that it wouldn't work on the 300 because I was getting an error message
when attempting to compile these same source files.  The loader couldn't
find a 'crtn.o' file.  However, in my own defense, it must be said that
Greg also thought there was some real difference between the 310 and 300,
and was hunting for a 300 upon which to bring forth a new version.

Well, if I had the presence of mind at the time, I should have taken a
gander at the 'specs' file buried deep down underground in the gcc
directory (four or five empty directory leaves down to it!).  I happened
to stumble upon this file recently while re-discovering the joys of
UNIX (my PC was down temporarily 8^), and noticed that there were
'begin file' and 'end file' entries in this thing.  'begin file'
pointed at 'crt1.o' (hum...) and 'end file' pointed at 'crtn.o'
(hummm...).

It's likely that you've already seen my error, but
it took me a bit 'o head tilting and armpit scratching to realize
that 'crtn.o' was not an actual file name, but that it really
represented 'crt?.o' ('n' meaning "1..n crt.o files").  After
grunting a bit (and scaring the kids to death), I changed this
enigmatic file name to 'crt1.o', and poof! gcc worked.

So, to all you 300 owners out there, gcc 2.2.2 (with the new,
improved C++ [major grin]) *does* work on a 3B2/300!

>Sorry for raising my voice.  It's been a long day....no, week...
>no, year...no, LIFE!...

That's ok.  I have a head cold already, and didn't notice... ;-)

Bob
-- 
Bob Hood    thor@arrakis.denver.co.us     H: 303-980-8392  W: 303-632-2180
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     152,000 miles-per-second:  Not just a good idea, it's the law!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: gulik@rtsg.mot.com (Gregory Gulik)
Subject: Re: Still can't get second drive to work ...
Organization: Motorola, Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:45:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.233956.13147@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (William E. White ) writes:
>
>First off, I get FW ERROR 1-02: DISK SANITY FAILURE.  Okay, I sorta
>expected that.
>
>I've read and re-read the manuals and the 3B2 FAQ list (I followed the
>instructions ... they didn't work ...).
>
>Any hope for me?

Yes, there is.

First of all, you're probably reading the wrong manuals.
What you need to get a hold of is described in item 0 of
the 3B2 FAQ.  It reads:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  0 SPECIAL NOTE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you are going to be at all serious about the 3B2, and especially if
you are relying on yourself for maintenance, the first thing you want
to do is obtain the AT&T 3B2 Computer Maintenance Manual.

It contains diagrams of all 3B2 computers up to the 3B2/600, parts
lists, breakdown procedures, troubleshooting information, and sources
of additional documentation.

In addition, it contains the "3B2 Computer Maintenance Utilities"
diskette called "idtools" (formerly known as "devtools").  This floppy
is bootable, and once running, the following options are available:

        > format floppy diskettes
        > format hard disk drives
        > verifies hard disk format
        > disk-to-disk high speed copies
        > disk-to-disk copy by sectors
        > disk-to-memory copies
        > defect table builder
        > writes sanity track   <--- THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED!!!!!
        > change default boot information

While some of these options are also available from UNIX, all the
utilities here can be run on a machine with a damaged (or missing) hard
disk, often allowing the drive to be repaired that is otherwise
unbootable.

This manual and disk can be ordered from the AT&T Customer Information
Center in Indianapolis, IN.  It has select code 305-395, and at press
time it sold for about $125.  The AT&T CuIC can be reached at:

        (800) 432-6600  Continental US
        (317) 322-6556  elsewhere

The CuIC takes phone orders with a credit card, and with a purchase
order for qualifying companies.  They have many other UNIX-related
books as well, so be sure to ask for their free "AT&T Documentation
Guide", select code 000-011.



-- 

gulik@rtsg.mot.com  (Gregory Gulik)  [NeXT]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: hak@alf.cooper.edu (Jeff Hakner)
Subject: Re: 3b2/310 not booting
Organization: The Cooper Union ( NY, NY )
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 02:36:49 GMT

in article <BvCDIv.MAs@mach1.wlu.ca>, clangfor@mach1.wlu.ca (Carl Langford s) says:
> 
> The lithium battery on our 3b2/310 failed a week ago. I replaced the
> battery, and now cannot boot the system.
> 
> When the system is powered up, it goes through the normal "SELF CHECK" and
> "DIAGNOSTICS PASSED" sequence. I then get the copyright notice, but
> nothing happens after the line of asterisks at the end of that notice.
> However, the console port appears to be "open" in that whatever I type
> is echoed back, and typing several characters followed by an at-sign (@)
> results in a carriage-return linefeed from the system as if something inside
> the box was listening.
> 
> The machine has a 70 meg hard drive, an internal floppy drive, two meg of
> RAM, 1 ports card and a MAU. The version of unix is 3.1.1. Any suggestions
> will be most welcome.

Hmmm.  Since you say that absolutely nothing else is printed after
the initial copyright message (such as "The system is coming up..."),
it seems that /etc/init is not coming up.  This could be due to
serious filesystem corruption.  If that's the case, you could do
a partial restore from the distribution floppies, or you could
use "magic mode", documented nicely by Stephen J. Friedl in the
FAQ and elsewhere.

You do, however, mention the recent changing of the battery.  Did
the system stop working as soon as you changed it?  I've seen
interesting behavior after battery changes that I tracked down
to the memory card clamp.  The clamp is metal with a black
baked-on enamel finish, which can flake off (almost unnoticeable)
and short the memory cards.  I doubt that's the problem, but
just for kicks try removing that clamp.  Also, make sure the
I/O card cage was securely re-seated when you changed the btty.
Since the system comes up as far as it does, this is probably not
the problem, but it's worth a shot, I guess.


--Jeff Hakner
Cooper Union, NYC
<hak@meagan.cooper.edu>
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From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.misc
Subject: How to tune a Starserver E?
Summary: Too slow, seems silly
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:29:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: bradley.1992Sep28.222951.28298
Organization: The Smelly Ditch


	We have an AT&T Starserver E, with two 486-33 cpu's, 80 megabytes
of ram and 120 megabytes of swap space.  It is running AT&T SVR4 3.0,
which is a multi-processor version of SVR4.

	This machine is our ``social'' machine with accounts available to
any registered student.  Thus the primary use of the machine is for
e-mail and reading news.  We use NN to nntp to our news server and
mail and elm for mail agents.  We dumped mailsurr in favor of sendmail+IDA.
Most users use the straight Bourne shell as their login shell.

	The problem is that the machine seems to run incredibly slow for
the kind of work it is doing.  Generally we keep a little more than a
hundred users on the machine for most of the day.  Top, which is a
little broken on this machine, will tell us things like this:

last pid: 22480;  load averages:  51.59,  47.46,  43.95    16:44:54
407 processes: 342 sleeping, 48 running, 16 zombies, 1 on cpu
Memory:  108916K (61632K) real,   8304K free,  42004K swap,  75004K free swap

	So, we see that there is plenty of swap available (75 meg), and what
appears to be an adequete amount of ram (8 meg).  The top few processes
are just sendmail, elm and sh.  Yet the current load is 52.

	It appears that something is going on to make this machine so
slow.  Has anyone seen this sort of behaviour, and even more important,
has anyone come up with a ``magic tunable'' that we can tweak that might
provide much better performance?

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``written by a drunken insane pathological liar''        guru@stasi.bradley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: WANTED:AT&T 386/486 tower case ie. cpu 325
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:43:41 GMT

I am looking for and empty AT&T case for the 386/486 line. One case that I've
seen was for the cpu 325 series. The case must have the cover and have ten
expansion slots. The Power supply would be nice too.
                                       Kris
From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b2 assembly documentation please?
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:25:58 GMT
Organization: Steve's Personal machine / Tustin, CA

> You're looking for:
> 
> 	AT&T 3B2/3B5/3B15 Computers 
> 	Assembly Language Programming Manual
> 	Select Code 305-000
> 
> My copy is dated March 1986; I have no idea if there is a newer edition.

They were thinking about one, but I'm pretty sure they never issued it.

> You should be able to call your local NCR office for the order.....

This is about the last place within AT&T/NCR you should try, they
will probably have no idea.  Instead, why not call the Customer
Information Center, which is where you get books and manuals from
AT&T (and possibly NCR too).

My standard blurb on them:

---------------8<------ standard CIC info ------>8-------------

AT&T Customer Information Center
2855 North Franklin Road
Indianapolis, IN  46219-1999

+1 800 432 6600 U.S.A.       +1 800 255 1242 Canada
+1 317 352 8556 Other        +1 317 352 8484 FAX

Hours: 0730 - 1830 EST (GMT+5)
Terms: check, money order, VISA, MasterCard, Amex
       Company purchase order OAC + (order > $50)


Call for free `AT&T Documentation Guide', select code 000-011.
----------------------- standard CIC info ---------------------

I just called, and via their cool little front-end menu, I was
able to determine that the book is in stock for $90.

     Stephen

-- 
Stephen J Friedl | Software Consultant | Tustin, CA |     +1 714 544-6561
3b2-kind-of-guy  | I speak for me ONLY |   KA8CMY   | uunet!mtndew!friedl
 
Attorneys are paranoid because they assume everybody else is dishonest too
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
Subject: StarServer admins mailing list
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:19:27 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

After the recent rush of StarServer-related postings, I thought I'd
mention my mailing list again.....

I run a mailing list for StarServer admins/users.  It's intended as
a resource for configuration/operation problems; please don't use it
as a "help with this awk script" kind of list.

To subscribe, send electronic mail to starserver-request@engr.uky.edu

--Wes

-- 
MORGAN@UKCC         |       Wes Morgan       |        ...!ukma!ukecc!morgan 
morgan@ms.uky.edu   | Engineering  Computing |   morgan@wuarchive.wustl.edu
morgan@engr.uky.edu | University of Kentucky | JWMorgan@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
  Mailing list for AT&T StarServer S/E  - starserver-request@engr.uky.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
From: gcorke@wassily.carleton.ca (Graham Corke)
Subject: Wanted 3b2 Cnews binaries
Summary: Need Cnews 3b2 binaries
Keywords: Cnews 3b2 binaries
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:48:10 GMT

I am looking for the C-news binaries for a 3b2-310.
If you know the anonymous ftp site for these and the
directory where these reside please email me at

          synerlog%ottawa@revcan.rct.ca         
   
               days (613) 995-3005
                evenings and other (613) 741-0348

          Thanks in advance      John per GFC
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