HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Date: 15 Dec 1992 16:19:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc6.ins.cwru.edu

In article <PJsTVB5w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
>As it happens, I answered that question in the part of the article that Mr
>Trier didn't quote.  Perhaps he didn't read that far.

Ah, I did read that far.  In fact, I read the entire article and failed to
see an explanation of why the current system didn't satisfy you.  Let me
rephrase my question this way: If you don't like the geographical references
in the .US domain (and I think you have a valid complaint there!), why not
register under .ORG or .COM?  

Perhaps you should consider, rather than attempting to insult me, that my
failure to understand your point might mean that poor small-brained me (and,
perhaps, many others with similarly small brains) needs a better explanation
of said point.

Here's the question: What would legitimizing .UUCP offer that the current
domain system does not offer?  Try to answer clearly so that I can understand.

(By the way, I do like the .PRI suggestion from another poster.  The current
convention seems to allow for private sites in either .COM or .ORG, at the
owner's preference, which, while admittedly not ideal, does work acceptably.
Maybe one solution would be to create a .pri.us domain, for people who don't
want .com or .org, but who also dislike geographical naming.)

-- 
Stephen Trier                      "We want to offer you a price that you
Network software type               just can't afford to take advantage of."
Case Western Reserve University         - Sales blurb from HSC Software
trier@ins.cwru.edu
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: USENET news <-> Fido echoes
Keywords: FIDO gateway newsgroups conversion
Date: 12 Dec 92 13:00:01 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:

> The net I am a part of (Net 121) also adheres to this policy, though
> I found out sort of by accident.  I did not see the need to announce
> that I was carrying Fidonet echos, but some one let slip that
> as long as I did not allow others to read my incoming Fido echos,
> I was okay as a point.  So now, I have a node entry as well as a point
> entry.

But what is so terrible to let people read your echos.  What "damage"
does it do?  I found no such "no-read" clause in Fido Policy for points.


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From: lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US (Lance A. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:56:43 GMT
Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC - DOS/Waffle 1.65

bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> Suppose someone were to propose that rather than have the .UUCP notation die 
> out, it should be formalized as a "real" domain.  Aside from the obvious 
> problem that existing mail programs handle this notation in several mutually 
> inconsistent ways, why would it be such a bad idea?  Presumably no one site

Well, getting everyone to updgrade/modify their software to deal with an 
"official" .UUCP would be a nightmare.  There is a LOT of inertia to 
overcome.

> graphical site names are such a great idea anyway.  For example, when someone
> moves to another part of the country, he may have to find a new UUCP connec-
> tion, but why should he necessarily have to change the name of his site?  If 
> he were registered in the .UUCP domain, he wouldn't have to.

How hard would it be to change your FQDN if you move?  You would have to 
distribute your new email address to everyone, but that already has to be 
done when you switch jobs or attend a different university if you don't 
have a UUCP site.

I'm curious.  Does anyone _know_ what is involved with changing your FQDN 
in the .US domain?

Lance

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The Full Circle
 Domain: lance@circle.raleigh.nc.us (Lance A. Brown)  [ preferred ]
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: UUCICO SPEED
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 20:51:21 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale Weber) writes:

> jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes:
> 
> > Theoretically you're right. But in practice things prove to be different.
> 
>   It's is correct, here also.  The *only* feature of my modem that I keep
> disabled is MNP-5 compression.  Everything else, including v.42 and v.42bis
> is enabled for inbound as well as outbound calls.  However, since I use

Fer crissake! Read the bloody standards! If you are using v42bis, you
are automatically using MNP5, as it is the fallback standard.

V42bis is a COMPRESSION standard which incorporates MNP5 and V42

V42    is an error correction standard which incorporates MNP2,3 and 4

--
Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)                          c/- 238a Tremaine Ave
dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz                      Palmerston North
Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245                New Zealand
       "A wet and windy place at the bottom of the World"
From: chorn@eastwind.mcds.com
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Ansi & Waffle
Keywords: ansi waffle
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 12:32:50 EST
Organization: The East Wind  +1 201 875 7063

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

> dwrage@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (David William Wrage) writes:
> 
> >Is it possible to display ansi menus in Waffle?  I have no problem 
> >with having two seperate sets of menus that can be copied over each
> >other on a user-per-user basis, but so far each of my attempts to have
> >Waffle display the menu fails and returns me all the ansi sequences
> >in text mode.  Please note that I have tried the video: ANSI (or BIOS)
> >and it did not help.  The menus display fine from dos or from a viewer
> >I have, but waffle seems to be reading the menu file, analyzing it, then
> >spitting out this 'digested' text.  Is there a way to force Waffle to 
> >display an ansi file when requested to do so, without the 'digestion'
> >process?
> 
> What you can do is play with MENUS, WORDS, TEXTS, etc. directory.
> At one time I got nifty ANSI menus, etc.
> All I had to do was typed ANSIMENU (that was my extern file names).
> Unfortunately they were lost when I upgraded from 1.64 -> 1.65.
> (No flame please).  My point is ... it's do able.

It got broke in 1.65, as David pointed out. See my reply to him for
a more detailed explaination.


 ---
 Christopher Horn           |  "We're all caught in a state of decay..."
 chorn@eastwind.mcds.com    |  The East Wind  +1 201 875 7063
From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Multiple Mailing Challenge
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 08:46:39 EST
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!

fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

> In article <Xi0gVB8w165w@dithots.Gwinnett.COM> gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (Geor
> |  From the main prompt, when I issue the command: m mom dad
> |  I get the messages: no such user mom, no such user dad
> [where mom and dad are personal aliases]
> 
> This is a bug, and I can't figure out a workaround without patching the sourc
> The problem is that sendletter() does personal alias expansion very first
> thing, so you're trying to alias-expand "mom dad", and it can't find an alias
> to match it.  Then it expands it out into a list of addresses, and, since it'
> already done the personal alias expansion, doesn't do it again, so both "mom"
> and "dad" are unknown users.
> 
> An "ok" workaround is to put the aliases in /waffle/system/aliases, but then
> if anyone sends mail to "mom" they will get your mom =)
> 
>   Bill

You're exactly right about this, thanks to the net! Of course, I'm going to
assume that someone has already told dell about it since it's a known
challenge to face.

bill

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From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle and DR-DOS 6.0
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:02:14 PST
Organization: Muth Valley Bell  (619/390-SLIC BBS; V32bis)

scimitar@suction.acme.gen.nz (Robert Singers) writes:

> I've been watching out for a Waffle FAQ, but Haven't seen one yet.  I 
> heard it has some tips about running waffle under DR DOS 6.  Can any one 
> mail me or post the relevant information from it?
> 
> Specifically my problem was that after I had fully set up Waffle 1.65 
> the scheduler stopped working, and nothing I did seemed to get it to go.  
> I finally reinstalled it and it ran fine.

Seems to me that it was the \system\stamp file that needed to be
deleted.  But it's been over a year, so I'm not sure on this.

I'm running DR-DOS V6.0, Desqview, and SuperStor.  It works great
for me.

This FAQ is enroute via E-mail:

From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,news.answers
Subject: Waffle Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Date: 6 Sep 92 07:15:24 GMT
Expires: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 07:15:06 GMT
Reply-To: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vince Skahan)
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
Organization: none
Supersedes: <waffle-faq_713171707@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>

Archive-name: waffle-faq
Last-modified: 1992/08/10


                Waffle Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
                ========================================

             (Last modified - 8/10/92 -
vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com)

--
     Mike, WB6WUI   //   INET:  mikey@slic.cts.com   //   GEnie: SLIC
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle and Share.exe question?
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:02:27 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (jim mcnicholas) writes:

> abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:
> > My DOS 5.0 manual does not document /F.  Maybe I missed it.  What page
> > is it on?
> 
>         It's an Undocumented feature!!  try it it works, put /f on 
>         the end of your shell line watch when you switch to the A: 
>         drive without anything in it!  Your system just goes on about 
>         it's business the best part is if you put A:\ in a batch file 
>         to switch to a: it won't crash the batch file it'll skip right 
>         over it!

Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work for me:
                           ~~~~~~~
E:\>a:
Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?Current drive is no longer valid>a

Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?Invalid drive specification
Bad command or file name

Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?Current drive is no longer valid>a

Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?Invalid drive specification
Bad command or file name

Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?Current drive is no longer valid>a
Bad command or file name

E:\>dir a:

Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?<cr>
Abort, Retry, Fail?<cr>
Abort, Retry, Fail?<cr>
Abort, Retry, Fail?<cr>
Abort, Retry, Fail?<cr>
Abort, Retry, Fail?<cr>

And my CONFIG.SYS contains:

device=c:\umb_drvr.sys /C=02 /M=........................
devicehigh=c:\himem.sys
DOS=HIGH,UMB
devicehigh=c:\mouse\mouse.sys
shell=c:\dos50\command.com /e:1800 /p /f
devicehigh=c:\ramdrive.sys 768 /e
devicehigh=c:\util\tansi.sys
stacks=0,0
buffers=30,8
FILES=39
break=ON


---  /|ugust /|bolins  --------------[ abolins%visavis@nyongwa.cam.org ]---
From: dawson@willard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle Goodies..
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 20:50:07 EST
Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB) writes:

> I would like to see an I-HAVE/SEND-ME utility for news.
> 
> I currently draw news from two hosts.  One of them occasionally goes
> flakey.  When this happens, I'd like to be able to go to my backup
> news host (different from the above) with I-HAVE/SEND-ME to keep
> up-to-date.
> 
> I understand UNIX folk do it all the time.
> 
> steve

The only caveat I can think of is that mention of 'ihave/sendme' draws
fire... apparently, that is old-hat, and should be replaced with the
current buzzword:  Dynafeed.

-- 
dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
gatech!vdbsan!willard!dawson
emory!uumind!willard!dawson
Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
From: root@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: rejected??????
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 12:58:36 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)


jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused) writes:

> fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> 
> > |Also... what is "splash" after login?
> > 
> > If this flag is set, the file from /waffle/text with the same name as the u
> > logging in will be displayed after the person enters their password.
> 
>      New idea?  Why not use that for newusers.  Copy "splash.txt" to the
> user's name ala newuser.bat.  In order for the new user to *get rid*
> of the "annoying" splash file, he has to read to the end in order to
> find the extern command to delete his splash file.

Great idea...except a new user or regular user has no access to /waffle/text...
..to remove that file...only a sysop can do this.

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Better news processor for waffle?
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:29:05 GMT

nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:

>I would like to know if there are tools for waffle that have better
>news and mail processing than waffle. Waffle seems a bit primitive.
>A nice UIF (mouse?) would be preferable.

many people (me included) think mouse-driven stuff intended for
a BBS that remote people connect to from terminal emulators is
an incredibly stupid thing.

I agree that sometimes a mouse interface for local use of the
PC is a nice thing, bit then if you work locally you have a different
interface to learn in addition to the one you have to learn to dial
in remotely.

If you're looking for something under MS-Windows, try helldiver.
look on halcyon.com under waffle/news.

-- 
          Vince Skahan				vince@halcyon.com (here)
    vince@atc.boeing.com (work)		    vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (home)
             *** Oxymoron of the day - "decision in progress" ***
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From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Date: 13 Dec 1992 17:01:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <N-9KrAEPBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> djk@boombox.apana.org.au writes:
>Wouldn't:
>	*.UUCP.  IN MX 500 my.host.domain.
>in the DNS do this?

No.  .UUCP does not exist as a real domain.  You would have to legitimize
it as a domain, which is something that the IAB/IETF/NIC folks would really
want to avoid.  I think I agree with them.

.UUCP is just a routing hack that tells local mailers to try to use UUCP
to talk to a host, just as many sites use .BITNET to specify that BITNET
should be used for delivery.  Neither one is legitimized on the Internet.
It has the same status as the frequent VMS convention of forming Internet
addresses like IN%""trier@ins.cwru.edu"" -- It's a local convention, used
in many localities, but nothing more.

-- 
Stephen Trier                      "We want to offer you a price that you
Network software type               just can't afford to take advantage of."
Case Western Reserve University         - Sales blurb from HSC Software
trier@ins.cwru.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: waffle FAQ: Where is it? ( was Re: Waffle and DR-DOS 6.0 )
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:12:43 GMT

In article <9FoPVB1w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz> dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:
|It wasn't there. When was the last FAQ posted?

Yesterday.  =)

Sorry about that; Vince turned over the job of posting-of-the-FAQ to me, and
I was a little slow on startup, seeing that it's the end of the semester...
it should be automatic, every 30 days, from now on.

  Bill
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: uucico speed, bad headers
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 17:20:48 GMT
Organization: The Z*NET Global News Gateway in Parnell New Zealand.

system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
 
 
> > > 3. Make sure you have uu.fossil set up in static
> What is this? I can't find a "uu.fossil" in my documentation.
 
 It is used to set the fossil drive to be on all the time. In static
 you set uu.fossil: it is mentioned in the docs.


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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: funny stuff...
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 06:11:37 GMT

In article <FRqmVB1w164w@visavis.uucp> abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:
|How does one turn off the "cookie" message that seems to automatically
|pop-up after posting a message?

Only by setting cookie_ok: to 10 in your STATIC file, i.e. disabling the
COOKIE command.  (or by changing forum.c, if you have the source.)

  Bill
From: root@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: rejected??????
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 11:59:24 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

> In article <aPJNVB1w165w@visavis.uucp> abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (
> |11-Dec-92 23:24 < con >    | Entry Refused - John Theos
> |11-Dec-92 23:25 < con >    | Entry Refused - Vija Abolins
> |11-Dec-92 23:26 < con >    | Entry Refused - Vija Abolins
> |
> |What is going on?  Why can't 'new' callers get an account?
> 
> This is what happens when you have something in /waffle/system/refuse (see
> ROADMAP.DOC) that matches these peoples' names.  (I'd guess that "the" is in
> there, from the first one, can't guess what is causing the second one.)
> 

...and this also occurs if you have some big errors in your
/waffle/system/signup file...


Happened to me when I was modifying it...
Mark

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DataSoft Consulting | Voice:+1 416 691 5529 |   uunorth!cibbs!root
Mark Buckaway       | Toronto, Ont. CANADA  |   1@4653 (WWIVnet)
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From: kenji@rcac.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:28:56 GMT
	<o?51H1b7fb@atlantis.psu.edu>
Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
Organization: RCAC Project, ASTEM RI, Kyoto, Japan
In-reply-to: barr@pop.psu.edu's message of 17 Dec 92 03:13:56 GMT

In article <o?51H1b7fb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
]   Huh?  The advantage of .com and .edu is that each sub-level domain is a
]   logical organizational unit.
[rest deleted by Rikitake]

I agree. This is why I applied for a *.org domain, even though I could
obtain a *.jp domain. The NIC is fair to non-US applicants (as long as
you are connected to a NIC-known mail-forwarding site, e.g. 
uunet.uu.net) so I had no problem to get it.

One thing those who are in the USA should be aware of is, however,
that those non-country domains are considered as old conventions which
should be abolished soon - by many non-US Internet administrators.

// Kenji
--
Kenji Rikitake, cyberspace samurai
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: A Neophyte's Questions
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:14:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.103430.25373@ms.uky.edu> mtbb136@ms.uky.edu (John S. Roberts Jr.) writes:
|3.  Instead of seeing the window "Awaiting Call...."  is there a way that
|    waffle will continuously display the number of message or unread
|    messages for each of the users on my system?  A few of my family
|    members don't receive much mail so they don't want to have to login
|    each time they want to check.

I would just tell them to hit "f" at the Awaiting Call... prompt to finger
themselves; then they can log on if it shows that they have new mail.

That's what I do.

  Bill
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From: tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:16:05 -0500
Organization: Lost In Space

In <1gisdmINN3gf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
>In article <e80RVB2w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
>>Suppose someone were to propose that rather than have the .UUCP notation die 
>>out, it should be formalized as a "real" domain.  Aside from the obvious 
>>problem that existing mail programs handle this notation in several mutually 
>>inconsistent ways, why would it be such a bad idea?

>It is not a bad idea at all, but it has already been done.

>It's called .ORG, .EDU, .COM, .INT, and .<YourCountry>.

>How would registering under .UUCP be different from registering under any
>other domain?

Ok, but consider my site, ssc60.sbwk.nj.us, a few-user Waffle iron owned
and operated by a private individual (i.e. me).

It's not an "organization" per se.
It's not a company or other type of commercial site.
It's not an educational institution.
It's not international (is that what .INT is for?)

The only real domain left is .<MyCountry> (.US), which is based on a
geographic hierarchy.  If I move out of South BrunsWicK, NJ, I have 
to register a new domain name.  Yes, it's free and easy, but I'd rather
not have to do it more than once.  And I'm fortunate in that my account
with UUNET means not having to find another forwarder.

What would be wrong with a .PRI domain for unaffiliated, private sites?
Everyone has at least an MX record in the DNS, it doesn't imply a specific
transfer protocol like .UUCP, and there is no geographic hierarchy so a
site can be physically moved without having to re-register its domain name.

Comments?  Flames?

-- 
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                     UUCP: ...!uunet!ssc60!tonyd      *P*: GHRW14B

a.k.a. Skip Bowler, captain of USENET Fantasy Bowling League Team 9.
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