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From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: UTP && THINWIRE same card 
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:18:16 GMT

From article <C0JpDH.I7t@jti.com>, by richb@jti.com (Richard Braun):

> A purchasing manager here at my workplace spotted an ad from Allied
> Telesis a few days ago, and is now planning to order their new
> AT-1700BT board which has the 10BaseT and BNC connectors.  The

I have no experience with the board.
The device that we have hundreds of is an external attachment to an existing
MAU connector, so it uses the same drivers that you've always had for an
existing board.  We have a few thousand existing ethered systems, and
converted to 10-Base-T.  I don't think we have any 10-Base-T boards inhouse.
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Subject: Re: Need 3c509 Driver for KA9Q
Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:15:35 GMT

In article <C0o4Aw.5JE@world.std.com>, pwilson@world.std.com (Pete Wilson)
 wrote:
>Anybody know where I can find a driver for the 3c509?

There is a beta version of the Crynwr 3C509 Packet Driver
in the directory ftp.msen.com:/pub/vendor/crynwr/ .

...Sam
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: 5250 emulator
From: Dave@vax2.winona.msus.edu (David Gresham)
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:24:10 -0600
Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona STate U

Does anyone know where to get a 5250 emulator.  Also please name the
approriate TCP/IP stack that this uses.  Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: msc@snoopy (Mac Su-Cheong (MSC))
Subject: Need help on TCPIP programming
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:54:52 GMT

Hello,

  May someone give me some instructions on TCPIP networking program. 
For example, if I want to write TCPIP package (NCSA Telnet, WATTCP),
netnews reader, Gopher client, etc., based on packet driver on my PC
running MSDOS or OS/2, what books, documents, information, etc., can
I get? I have got the source code of NCSA telnet and I want to find
some documentation and books for this kind of programming. 

  I know nothing about modem and RS232 programming. May someone give
me some directions on books and source that I should read? Is it 
possible to emulate MODEM or RS232 communication on Ethernet? That is,
if there are two programs that can communicate on two machines via
RS232 or null modem, is it possible to write a RS232 emulator based
on packet driver so that the messages between the two programs are
transferred via ethernet? Of course the source codes of the two programs
need no modification, the binary code even need no re-compilation.
Is there such a package already available?

  Thanks in advance.

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From: gebhart@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Gebhart)
Subject: Re: Wanted: NFS client
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:16:56 GMT

In article <books.166.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu> books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:
>>>
>>>	What NFS clients exist for the PC? Are there any free/shareware
>>>clients? So far, I've heard of PC/TCP by FTP Software and PC-NFS by Sun
>>>Microsystems.
>>>	Thanks.
>
>The only PD implemention of NFS that I know of is for Linux.  I don't think
>there are any implementions for MS-DOS.

And of course 386BSD has NFS too, but I guess the original writer thought
of DOS.

Ralf

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: henrysa@microsoft.com (Henry Sanders)
Subject: Re: NDIS/Netbios
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:33:40 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

>Netbeui is a grungy little protocol stack which is a cut down and faster
>version of NBP.  Netbeui has nothing to do with TCP/IP at all.  Netbios
>over TCP/IP is covered by an RFC (number forgotten).  Tricking netbios aware
>programs is not the way I'd put it at all.  Netbios offers a standard API
>set which is protocol stack independent.  There is no tricking involved at
>all.

Actually, Netbeui has nothing to do with NBP. Netbeui is a a pretty 
simple beast that uses LLC class 2 for reliable delivery, and layers
another protocol on top of that to provide name resolution, confirmed
data delivery, graceful close, etc. The NetBIOS for TCP RFCs are
RFC1001/1002. There is also a spec. from TOP for doing NetBIOS on
top of OSI. People might argue how protocol independent the NetBIOS
API is - it seems like you always have to layer some convergence
protocol on top of your favorite protocol to make NetBIOS work.

>HP Lan Manager / X (and other vendor flavours) use the RFC Netbios which is
>generally described as "netbios over TCP/IP".  Microsoft's primary transport
>protocol is now Netbeui.  They supply TCP/IP with Lan manager (OS/2
>versions) as a convenience, although you gotta pay
>extra money for the useful utilities.  You do get Ping though.  Most
>versions of Lan Man/X use TCP/IP because it's so much easier to port than
>writing your own Unix based Netbeui stack.  SCO did that though.  Poor 
>buggers.

I don't know that I would describe Netbeui as our 'primary transport
protocol'. I don't think anybody here considers TCP/IP less important
that Netbeui, and we are working hard to improve our TCP offerings.

Henry Sanders
henrysa@microsoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Awful NFS performance!
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:53:23 GMT

backman@FTP.COM (Larry Backman) writes:
> The results showed a properly tuned NFS client to
> be in the 90% of Netware category.  [...]
> Of course my benchmark implies that Novell has an excellent NFS server
> just as much as it implies we have a fast NFS client.

Wow.  Our NFS server (386/40, 16 MB, SCO Unix 3.2.2) is an order of
magnitude slower than our Netware server (386/33, 4 MB, Netware 3.11).
We're using Wollongong's TCP/IP and NFS, but even after extensive tuning,
NFS file copies are waaaay slower than either Netware or FTP.

Does this mean that SCO's NFS server (version 1.1) has really crappy
performance?  And if so, do any of the Intal-based Unixes (Dell, Everex,
Solaris, BSDI, ...) have a high-performance NFS server

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: walter@lkn.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Walter Loepsinger)
Subject: Re: Multiple PC-Telnets on one machine.
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Kommunikationsnetze, TU Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: york
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:11:45 GMT

cs911212@ariel.yorku.ca (RICK DILORENZO) writes:



>  Not sure if this is possible.  I have a 386-33, 8 megs ram, 120 meg hd, etc
>with a NE2000 Ethernet card in it.  If I were to run Desqview/X and open
>up a say multiple Dos Windows (let's say 6 Dos windows).  Could each window
>access TCP/IP PC-Telnet to a Unix server on the network ?  Could these multiple
[...]
>Can TCP/IP and Telnet support multiple outgoing telnets from the same machine
>and network card ?   So I could have 6 programs running at the same time
>(Multitasking using Desqview/X on a 386) and all 6 of them using Telnet
[...]

It is not a problem of the hardware.
Only your Tcp/Ip-kernel is responsible for multiple connections, 
and it should be posible to have more than one at a time.
I am using LAN Workplace and there is a configuration parameter 
to set the maximum number of connections. You might look for that
in your Tcp/IP documentation, too.

Greetings from Munich, Bavaria!
Walter.

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: Joerg.Vreemann@popserver.uni-konstanz.de (Joerg Vreemann)
Subject: Re: FTP PC/TPC Bootp question
Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Organization: Gruppe Kommunikation, RZ Uni Konstanz
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:03:43 GMT

In article <Hendrik.Klompmaker.33.726184915@beheer.zod.wau.nl>,
Hendrik.Klompmaker@beheer.zod.wau.nl (Hendrik Klompmaker) wrote:

> I use a HP 9000/730 as a BOOTP server. One of the fields in the bootptab 
> file is the hostname (hn) but FTP bootp client seems unable to support this 
> field (at least version 2.05). 

Funny -- it seemed to work here (with one exception: the domain name
part of the hostname was not recognized by FTP's bootp; had to set it 
via ipconfig in our startup batch file). We are using Berkeley's popper, V.
1.831, as the server process.
You certainly do know that each stanza in bootptab has to start with
'hostname:'...(??)

Joerg Vreemann, Gruppe Kommunikation, RZ der Uni Konstanz, 7750 Konstanz,
FRG
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: jpotts@alexandria.lib.utah.edu (Joe Potts)
Subject: Need Source code for Tn3270 using packet drivers or LWP4DOS
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:47:57 GMT

Can't anyone give me a pointer to a source code package for PC TN3270 using 
packet drivers or LWP4DOS that will compile with Borland C/C++.  At our 
library we would like to display special characters from our mainframe 
online catalog and use TN3270 as an engine in an interface to that catalog. 
I know that Brad Clements will be releasing the source for the Clarkson 
package and that there is a LWP4DOS package (T3270S) set up for MS C.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Joseph C. Potts
Systems Librarian for R & D
Marriott Library, University of Utah
jpotts@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
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From: dawkins@acsu.buffalo.edu (Desmond D. Dawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Help with CUTCP 2.2 TN/TC-D Telnet...
Summary: Telnet hangs, doesn't return to DOS.
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:48:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Organization: University at Buffalo

I'm having a strange problem with CUTCP 2.2 TN/TC-D.
(I'm not the primary user of this machine) 
Whenever the user exits from Telnet via logging out of the last session, 
ALT-X, or even ALT-F3, it hangs requiring a 'hot boot'. It never fails!
ALT-E does work, however. As does DOS-shelling from other programs - 
(WordPerfect). I'm at a loss. 
The following is a list of things I've already tried:
  a. stripped everything from the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS 
  b. reinstalled Telnet
  c. virus-checked the machine
  d. checked that COMSPEC was looking at the right COMMAND.COM

This is the configuration:

* 486/33 compatible with 4M RAM. 
* MS-DOS 5.0
* 3Com board 3c503 
* version 7 for the packet driver - 3c503.COM
* invocation - 3c503 -w 0x7e 0x3 0x310
* version 3.04 of the protocol - IPX304.COM

I would appreciate all suggestions that you might have. I'm pretty much
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: domier@ux3.cso.uiuc.edu (Les Domier)
Subject: Windows for Workgroups 
Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:29:56 GMT

There were several messages posted a while back on getting W4W working with
TCPIP.  We've tried following the instructions in the Resource Kit without 
much luck.  We do have W4W working with dis_pkt9.dos.  Are there any 
advantages to the Microsoft setup? The problem seems to be in the TCPUTILS.
INI.  The set up with dis_pkt9.dos is much simpler.  Just wondering.

 
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: PC LPD server
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:13:52 GMT

I know that I saw a PC based LPD server which ran over the packet drivers and
a NCSA/CUTCP config.tel.  Does anyone remember where this beast is?

I tried archie, but didn't come up with it.  

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From: vsarkela@convex.csc.FI (Vesa S{rkel{)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: DNS running on PC
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:51:29 GMT
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET

In article <1993Jan9.125717.1389@greco-prog.fr> harper@geocub.greco-prog.fr 
writes:

>I'm looking for a package that will run a DNS on a PC with MS-DOS.
>Any pointers immensely appreciate!

Chameleon TCP/IP runs under MS Windows & has BIND. You can even set up
a router with it. It is commercial, more info from info@netmanage.com.

Vesa Sarkela                       Keskuslaboratorio Oy
vsarkela@convex.csc.fi   Finnish Pulp & Paper Research Institute
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: msc@snoopy.ncku.edu.tw (Mac Su-Cheong (MSC))
Subject: Re: Internet address for Clarkson Drivers
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:14:04 GMT

David Gresham (Dave@vax2.winona.msus.edu) wrote:
: Hello.  I am looking for the Internet address for the clarkson packet
: drivers.  Specifically for the new Etherlink III  3c509 TP.  Thanks.
:

  Clarkson packet drivers can be found at oak.oakland.edu  under
directory pub/msdos/pktdrvr 

  You can find them inside mirror sites of SIMTEL20 too. Two of them
are :
  wuarchive.wustl.edu   (128.252.135.4)
  nctuccca.edu.tw       (140.111.3.21)     /SIMTEL20/msdos/pktdrvr

  Hope this helps.

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From: div@NAD.3Com.COM (Dinesh Venkatachalam x5498)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: UTP && THINWIRE same card
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:54:07 GMT
Reply-To: div@NAD.3Com.COM
Organization: 3Com Corp

The 3c509 is soon to come out in a CoMBO version which offers 10baseT, 10Base2
(Coax) and AUI connectivity. Dont call up my company and ask for it as they
only announce it after they get enough to start shipping. 

--Dinesh
From: bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Connecting a Sun Sparc 2 to several PC computers
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:45:07 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu

I am sure this is a frequently asked question, but I am interested if
anybody can provide some detailed information about products, who to
locate about these products, etc.

I have a lab Sun Sparcstation 2 that is used for some data modelling.
We use about 6 386 and 486 compatibles to collect data for our experiments.
They are currently connected to the Sparc and we use Kermit to transfer
data files over to the Sun, where people can (one by one) analyze the data.

However, this is a bottleneck, since only one person at a time can work
on the Sun.  The program we use runs under X11R5, so I was wondering if
anybody has information on the exact software we need to run X11R5 over
a serial connection.

In particular, what do I need in terms of drivers for the Sun, what
SLIP-based TCP/IP drivers do I need for the PC computers, and what good
X-Windows based emulators are there for IBM compatibles.  All the emulators
need to be able to do is throw up a couple of windows (a graphing window
and a data window) and update them rather infrequently (about once every
one to two minutes) when they work on the data.

Thanks for any help and I would appreciate it if you could email me
responses, since I don't read this group very often.

-- 
Bing Ho
bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu   University of California, Berkeley   
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: traceroute
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:23:10 GMT
Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL

In article <9301121728.AA20364@ftp.com> jbvb@ftp.com writes:
>
>    Does anybody know of a implementation of traceroute for the PC, and where
>    I could get it?
>
>We added this to PC/TCP's PING in v2.1, but there's a TRACERT.EXE which works
>with earlier versions on vax.ftp.com.

Beame & Whiteside's B&W NFS package includes "troute.exe" which is, in fact,
traceroute.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: brezak@nifty.osf.org (John Brezak)
Subject: Wanted: NDIS 3.0 Spec
Reply-To: brezak@apollo.com
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:01:54 GMT

How can one get the NDIS 3.0 Spec ? An ftp'able version would be best. Thanx.
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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Kerberos capable PC telnet clients?
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:12:54 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1993Jan4.122314.46085@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> Could someone tell me of telnet clients for PCs (and/or Macs) which
> can participate in Kerberos authentication? Our university would like
> to replace/augment NCSA Telnet, CUTCP, and various Mac clients with
> Kerberos capable clients.
> 
> Please e-mail me directly as I don't read this group. Thank you!

Check newsgroup comp.protocols.kerberos. I may be able to get some
answers there.

So far only info about FTP Software's ($$) Kerberos capable telnet
client has come to me.
From: petes@icarus.ifsm.umbc.edu (Mr. Peter C. Schuyler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: WnQVT 3.03 and Script files
Date: 6 Jan 1993 20:09:49 GMT
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County Campus
NNTP-Posting-Host: icarus.ifsm.umbc.edu

Has anyone successfully used script files with qvt.  I'm trying to log  
into a host and run a program automatically and do other stuff.  This is  
perfect for a one time script.  The docs don not show how scripts work  
though.


--
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petes@ifsm.umbc.edu	PH# (410) 455-2648 FAX# (410) 455-1073
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Need help with QVTNet
From: dskeeler@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Dennis S. Keeler)
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:26:32 -0500
Organization: Miami University

	I've been able to run NCSA Telnet within a DOS Window, but can't get
QVTNet working. It always says "Network Initialization Error." I've tried using
both dis_pkt and 3c503 as my packet driver. I've tried calling pktint.com, but
it doesn't seem to help. I've also tried winpkt.com. NCSA Telnet works with it,
but QVTNet doesn't.
	Any tips, samples config.sys/autoexec.bat's, etc. would be appreciated.
	(Should I be running pktmux, which I just read about a few messages
ago?)
	Thanks.
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From: reiner@medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu (Peter D. Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: UTP && THINWIRE same card
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:10:28 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll of Medicine
Originator: reiner@midas.bioc.aecom.yu.edu

Does anyone know of a TCP/IP card having both unshielded twisted
pair and thinwire connectors? This is in anticipation of a future
addition of UTP to our net.  The card must also have a packet
driver interface.
Thanks
Peter Reiner
reiner@aecom.yu.edu
From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Does exist slip/ftp w/scrolling..?
Date: 10 Jan 1993 16:51:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <forb0004.188.726549849@student.tc.umn.edu> forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis ) writes:
>On more than one occaision I've felt like I was playing a video 
>game: make sure the printer's powered up, keep a finger hovering over the 
>print screen button, enter the fateful dir command, ...

Have you tried "dir * tmpfile", followed by "!more <tmpfile"?  I don't
know if NCSA's FTP permits the two-option DIR, but at least a few others
(PC/IP-family and FTP SW) support it.

If it's a very Unix-ish client, you might even be able to do "dir * |more".

If you really, really, want to print the directory, try Ctrl-P or "dir * prn".

Also try "ls -CF".  This works on many Unix-based FTP servers, but not all.
It also won't work on MS-DOS, VMS, or TOPS-20 FTP servers.

-- 
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Network software type               just can't afford to take advantage of."
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trier@ins.cwru.edu
From: kgirrard@oregon.uoregon.edu (Ken Girrard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: 3c503 and ATT 6300Plus
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:30:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: oregon.4JAN199314305610
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Oregon
NNTP-Posting-Host: oregon.uoregon.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Here's another "Network this ancient PC please."

I have an AT&T PC6300 Plus (basically a PC6300 with a 286 daughterboard)
that I'm trying to install a 3Com 3C503 (8-bit) network adapter in.  So
far, even 3Com's diagnostics can't locate the card.  It would appear to
be an I/O address problem, or at least that's what the diag. complains
about.

Has anybody had any luck with this combination or should I abandon ship
now, and save myself a major headache? 

Ken Girrard
kgirrard@eosc.osshe.edu
From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Winsock available?
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:28:18 GMT
Reply-To: jbvb@ftp.com
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


    I appreciate your detailed explanation, it helped a lot.  Is it
    fair to assume that the major TCP vendors will be implementing this
    API in their products?

At least the DOS ones.  The first one (conforming to v1.0 of the spec)
came out last summer, there are now a few shipping that conform to v1.1.

    ....Are we likely to see this in the major UNIX impelmentations as well
    as NT & OS/2 for example?

WinSockAPI is very specific to a Windows-style environment.  Microsoft has
promised that it will run under NT, and IBM or other OS/2 TCP/IP vendors
could provide it as part of a Windows emulation under OS/2, but it isn't
likely to appear under things currently called "unix".

James B. VanBokkelen		2 High St., North Andover, MA  01845
FTP Software Inc.		voice: (508) 685-4000  fax: (508) 794-4488

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