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                             DPC ACQUISITION CORP.

                             1996 STOCK OPTION PLAN


                             I. PURPOSE OF THE PLAN

         The DPC ACQUISITION CORP. 1996 STOCK OPTION PLAN (the "Plan") is
intended to provide a means whereby certain employees of DPC ACQUISITION CORP.,
a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and its subsidiaries may develop a
sense of proprietorship and personal involvement in the development and
financial success of the Company, and to encourage them to remain with and
devote their best efforts to the business of the Company, thereby advancing the
interests of the Company and its shareholders. Accordingly, the Company may
grant to certain employees ("Optionees") the option ("Option") to purchase
shares of the Class A Common Stock of the Company ("Stock"), as hereinafter set
forth. Options granted under the Plan may be either incentive stock options,
within the meaning of section 422(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the "Code"), ("Incentive Stock Options") or options which do not
constitute Incentive Stock Options.

                               II. ADMINISTRATION

         The Plan shall be administered by a committee (the "Committee") of,
and appointed by, the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"). The
Committee shall have sole authority to select the Optionees from among those
individuals eligible hereunder and to establish the number of shares which may
be issued under each Option. In selecting the Optionees from among individuals
eligible hereunder and in establishing the number of shares that may be issued
under each Option, the Committee may take into account the nature of the
services rendered by such individuals, their present and potential
contributions to the Company's success and such other factors as the Committee
in its discretion shall deem relevant. The Committee is authorized to interpret
the Plan and may from time to time adopt such rules and regulations, consistent
with the provisions of the Plan, as it may deem advisable to carry out the
Plan. All decisions made by the Committee in selecting the Optionees, in
establishing the number of shares which may be issued under each Option and in
construing the provisions of the Plan shall be final.

                             III. OPTION AGREEMENTS

         (a) Each Option shall be evidenced by a written agreement between the
Company and the Optionee ("Option Agreement") which shall contain such terms
and conditions as may be approved by the Committee. The terms and conditions of
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not be identical. Specifically, an Option Agreement may provide for the payment
of the option price, in whole or in part, by the delivery of a number of shares
of Stock (plus cash if necessary) having a fair market value equal to such
option price.

         (b) For all purposes under the Plan, the fair market value of a share
of Stock on a particular date shall be equal to the mean of the high and low
sales prices of the Stock (i) reported by the National Market System of NASDAQ
on that date or (ii) if the Stock is listed on a national stock exchange,
reported on the stock exchange composite tape on that date; or, in either case,
if no prices are reported on that date, on the last preceding date on which
such prices of the Stock are so reported. If the Stock is traded over the
counter at the time a determination of its fair market value is required to be
made hereunder, its fair market value shall be deemed to be equal to the
average between the reported high and low or closing bid and asked prices of
Stock on the most recent date on which Stock was publicly traded. In the event
Stock is not publicly traded at the time a determination of its value is
required to be made hereunder, the determination of its fair market value shall
be made by the Committee in such manner as it deems appropriate.

         (c) Each Option and all rights granted thereunder shall not be
transferable other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution and
shall be exercisable during the Optionee's lifetime only by the Optionee or the
Optionee's guardian or legal representative.

                          IV. ELIGIBILITY OF OPTIONEE

         Options may be granted only to individuals who are employees
(including officers and directors who are also employees) of the Company or any
parent or subsidiary corporation (as defined in section 424 of the Code) of the
Company at the time the Option is granted. Options may be granted to the same
individual on more than one occasion. No Incentive Stock Option shall be
granted to an individual if, at the time the Option is granted, such individual
owns stock possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock of the Company or of its parent or subsidiary corporation,
within the meaning of section 422(b)(6) of the Code, unless (i) at the time
such Option is granted the option price is at least 110% of the fair market
value of the Stock subject to the Option and (ii) such Option by its terms is
not exercisable after the expiration of five years from the date of grant. To
the extent that the aggregate fair market value (determined at the time the
respective Incentive Stock Option is granted) of stock with respect to which
Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by an individual
during any calendar year under all incentive stock option plans of the Company
and its parent and subsidiary corporations exceeds $100,000, such excess
Incentive Stock Options shall be treated as Options which do not constitute
Incentive Stock Options. The Committee shall determine, in accordance with
applicable provisions of the Code, Treasury Regulations and other
administrative pronouncements, which of an Optionee's Incentive Stock Options
will not constitute Incentive Stock Options because of such limitation and
shall notify the Optionee of such determination as soon as practicable after
such determination.


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                         V. SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN

         The aggregate number of shares which may be issued under Options
granted under the Plan shall not exceed 500,000 shares of Stock. Such shares
may consist of authorized but unissued shares of Stock or previously issued
shares of Stock reacquired by the Company. Any of such shares which remain
unissued and which are not subject to outstanding Options at the termination of
the Plan shall cease to be subject to the Plan, but, until termination of the
Plan, the Company shall at all times make available a sufficient number of
shares to meet the requirements of the Plan. Should any Option hereunder expire
or terminate prior to its exercise in full, the shares theretofore subject to
such Option may again be subject to an Option granted under the Plan. The
aggregate number of shares which may be issued under the Plan shall be subject
to adjustment in the same manner as provided in Paragraph VIII hereof with
respect to shares of Stock subject to Options then outstanding. Exercise of an
Option in any manner shall result in a decrease in the number of shares of
Stock which may thereafter be available, both for purposes of the Plan and for
sale to any one individual, by the number of shares as to which the Option is
exercised. Separate stock certificates shall be issued by the Company for those
shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an Incentive Stock Option and for
those shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of any Option which does not
constitute an Incentive Stock Option.

                                VI. OPTION PRICE

         The purchase price of Stock issued under each Option shall be
determined by the Committee, but (i) in the case of an Incentive Stock Option,
such purchase price shall not be less than the fair market value of Stock
subject to the Option on the date the Option is granted, and (ii) in the case
of an option that does not constitute an Incentive Stock Option, such purchase
price shall not be less than 50% of the fair market value of Stock subject to
the Option on the date the Option is granted.

                               VII. TERM OF PLAN

         The Plan shall be effective upon the date of its adoption by the
Board, provided the Plan is approved by the shareholders of the Company within
twelve months thereafter. Notwithstanding any provision in this Plan or in any
Option Agreement, no Option shall be exercisable prior to such shareholder
approval. Except with respect to Options then outstanding, if not sooner
terminated under the provisions of Paragraph IX, the Plan shall terminate upon
and no further Options shall be granted after the expiration of ten years from
the date of its adoption by the Board.

                    VIII. RECAPITALIZATION OR REORGANIZATION

         (a) The existence of the Plan and the Options granted hereunder shall
not affect in any way the right or power of the Board or the shareholders of
the Company to make or authorize any adjustment, recapitalization,
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its business, any merger or consolidation of the Company, any issue of debt or
equity securities, the dissolution or liquidation of the Company or any sale,
lease, exchange or other disposition of all or any part of its assets or
business or any other corporate act or proceeding.

         (b) The shares with respect to which Options may be granted are shares
of Stock as presently constituted, but if, and whenever, prior to the
expiration of an Option theretofore granted, the Company shall effect a
subdivision or consolidation of shares of Stock or the payment of a stock
dividend on Stock without receipt of consideration by the Company, the number
of shares of Stock with respect to which such Option may thereafter be
exercised (i) in the event of an increase in the number of outstanding shares
shall be proportionately increased, and the purchase price per share shall be
proportionately reduced, and (ii) in the event of a reduction in the number of
outstanding shares shall be proportionately reduced, and the purchase price per
share shall be proportionately increased.

         (c) If the Company recapitalizes, reclassifies its capital stock, or
otherwise changes its capital structure (a "recapitalization"), the number and
class of shares of Stock covered by an Option theretofore granted shall be
adjusted so that such Option shall thereafter cover the number and class of
shares of stock and securities to which the Optionee would have been entitled
pursuant to the terms of the recapitalization if, immediately prior to the
recapitalization, the Optionee had been the holder of record of the number of
shares of Stock then covered by such Option. If (i) the Company shall not be
the surviving entity in any merger, consolidation or other reorganization (or
survives only as a subsidiary of an entity), (ii) the Company sells, leases or
exchanges all or substantially all of its assets to any other person or entity,
(iii) the Company is to be dissolved and liquidated, (iv) any person or entity,
including a "group" as contemplated by Section 13(d)(3) of the 1934 Act,
acquires or gains ownership or control (including, without limitation, power to
vote) of more than 50% of the outstanding shares of the Company's voting stock
(based upon voting power), or (v) as a result of or in connection with a
contested election of directors, the persons who were directors of the Company
before such election shall cease to constitute a majority of the Board (each
such event is referred to herein as a "Corporate Change"), no later than (a)
ten days after the approval by the shareholders of the Company of such merger,
consolidation, reorganization, sale, lease or exchange of assets or dissolution
or such election of directors or (b) thirty days after a change of control of
the type described in Clause (iv), the Committee, acting in its sole discretion
without the consent or approval of any Optionee, shall act to effect one or
more of the following alternatives, which may vary among individual Optionees
and which may vary among Options held by any individual Optionee: (1)
accelerate the time at which Options then outstanding may be exercised so that
such Options may be exercised in full for a limited period of time on or before
a specified date (before or after such Corporate Change) fixed by the
Committee, after which specified date all unexercised Options and all rights of
Optionees thereunder shall terminate, (2) require the mandatory surrender to
the Company by selected Optionees of some or all of the outstanding Options
held by such Optionees (irrespective of whether such Options are then
exercisable under the provisions of the Plan) as of a date, before or after
such Corporate Change, specified by the Committee, in which event the Committee
shall thereupon cancel such Options and the Company shall pay to each Optionee
an amount of cash per share equal to the excess, if any, of the amount
calculated in Subparagraph (d) below (the "Change

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of Control Value") of the shares subject to such Option over the exercise
price(s) under such Options for such shares, (3) make such adjustments to
Options then outstanding as the Committee deems appropriate to reflect such
Corporate Change (provided, however, that the Committee may determine in its
sole discretion that no adjustment is necessary to Options then outstanding) or
(4) provide that the number and class of shares of Stock covered by an Option
theretofore granted shall be adjusted so that such Option shall thereafter
cover the number and class of shares of stock or other securities or property
(including, without limitation, cash) to which the Optionee would have been
entitled pursuant to the terms of the agreement of merger, consolidation or
sale of assets and dissolution if, immediately prior to such merger,
consolidation or sale of assets and dissolution, the Optionee had been the
holder of record of the number of shares of Stock then covered by such Option.

         (d) For the purposes of clause (2) in Subparagraph (c) above, the
"Change of Control Value" shall equal the amount determined in clause (i), (ii)
or (iii), whichever is applicable, as follows: (i) the per share price offered
to shareholders of the Company in any such merger, consolidation,
reorganization, sale of assets or dissolution transaction, (ii) the price per
share offered to shareholders of the Company in any tender offer or exchange
offer whereby a Corporate Change takes place, or (iii) if such Corporate Change
occurs other than pursuant to a tender or exchange offer, the fair market value
per share of the shares into which such Options being surrendered are
exercisable, as determined by the Committee as of the date determined by the
Committee to be the date of cancellation and surrender of such Options. In the
event that the consideration offered to shareholders of the Company in any
transaction described in this Subparagraph (d) or Subparagraph (c) above
consists of anything other than cash, the Committee shall determine the fair
cash equivalent of the portion of the consideration offered which is other than
cash.

         (e)      Any adjustment provided for in Subparagraphs (b) or (c) above
shall be subject to any required shareholder action.

         (f) Except as hereinbefore expressly provided, the issuance by the
Company of shares of stock of any class or securities convertible into shares
of stock of any class, for cash, property, labor or services, upon direct sale,
upon the exercise of rights or warrants to subscribe therefor, or upon
conversion of shares or obligations of the Company convertible into such shares
or other securities, and in any case whether or not for fair value, shall not
affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the
number of shares of Stock subject to Options theretofore granted or the
purchase price per share.

                    IX. AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION OF THE PLAN

         The Board in its discretion may terminate the Plan at any time with
respect to any shares for which Options have not theretofore been granted. The
Board shall have the right to alter or amend the Plan or any part thereof from
time to time; provided, that no change in any Option theretofore granted may be
made which would impair the rights of the Optionee without the

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consent of such Optionee; and provided, further, that (i) the Board may not make
any alteration or amendment which would decrease any authority granted to the
Committee hereunder and (ii) the Board may not make any alteration or amendment
which would materially increase the benefits accruing to participants under the
Plan, increase the aggregate number of shares which may be issued pursuant to
the provisions of the Plan, change the class of individuals eligible to receive
Options under the Plan or extend the term of the Plan, without the approval of
the shareholders of the Company.

                               X. SECURITIES LAWS

         The Company shall not be obligated to issue any Stock pursuant to any
Option granted under the Plan at any time when the offering of the shares
covered by such Option have not been registered under the Securities Act of
1933 and such other state and federal laws, rules or regulations as the Company
or the Committee deems applicable and, in the opinion of legal counsel for the
Company, there is no exemption from the registration requirements of such laws,
rules or regulations available for the offering and sale of such shares.






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