Linux-Misc Digest #4, Volume #20 Sat, 1 May 99 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Peter Seebach)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Peter Seebach)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Phil McRevis)
Re: AWE 64 GOLD-Linux Compatible? (Tony Smolar)
Re: CTRL-S (Tony Smolar)
Module problems since Linux 2.2.6 (Peter Lieverdink)
need @!home help (Charles Koerner)
Re: Where to get glibc2 source... (Peter Nelson)
Re: WordStar (or equiv.) on LINUX? (Steve Lamb)
StarOffice macros security? (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: What happened to g++ (Michel)
Re: Where to get glibc2 source... (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: CTRL-S (Tony Smolar)
Re: Module problems since Linux 2.2.6 (Matthew R Ashe)
download installation redhat-6.0 (lalonde)
Re: I have to save my system (Leslie Mikesell)
Xdm on startup? (Giuseppe Milicia)
Re: How to upgrade Debian? (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:36:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 30 Apr 1999, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> GNU software has a *HUGE* technological advantage over
>> closed-source software; this has nothing to do with "capitalism"
>> - we simply outnumber them.
>That a closed-source software company has only so much capital
>with which to employ developers who have access to that source
>has nothing to do with capitalism? The absence of that limit is
>why "we simply outnumber them."
If you limit "capitalism" to "that subset of economic activities that were
possible in a world where only physical products made sense", you can get any
results you want.
Free software is a significant change in the use of capital; it's still about
using capital and labor to make more capital.
-s
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:38:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Bashford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jim Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> GNU reeks of Commumism. I'll tell you why:
> [ .... ]
>> P.S. This is intended as humor (and a troll) ;-)
>
>This is dead serious, and is intended as a provocation >:(
>
>Although your reasons why are ridiculous, you are right that GNU is
>communist. And there's something even worse: the writing of
>software is an activity with very strong instrinsic communist
>tendencies.
>
>I'll tell you why, but first it's necessarty to say what
>capitalism is (and isn't), and how that relates to communism.
>
...<snip>...
>
>-Don
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was a very interesting post; have you considered cross-posting
to someplace like say sci.econ? I'm not saying it doesn't belong here
but there might be more of a peer review there. (On the other hand,
most of them probably wouldn't have a clue what free software is, but maybe
this would help educated them.)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:41:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
PILCH Hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Some of us, the creators of good free software, do what needs to be done ---
>without making money. Evidently the FSF doesn't make a lot of money.
Perhaps - but nothing would prevent them from trying a bit harder to sell
consulting services.
The capitalist belief system is that you can do this and things that need
to get done will still get done. It's not really possible to prove or
disprove; real-world situations are too complicated. :)
>Redhat has acquired enough fame to occupy a very special and small niche in
>the market system, where some money can be made.
Probably, yes. But I'm not sure; I don't think they've found a "small niche".
I think calling the service industry part of computing a "small niche" is
like someone saying, many years ago, that this "fast food" thing might occupy
a "small niche" in the restaurant business.
Economic systems tend to end up focusing trade on scarce resources; it turns
out that software isn't scarce, but programming and support are, so we end
up spending money on programming and support, not on software.
>Yes, but often with the result that, by doing what needs to be done, you
>can only become poor.
If you try to "do what needs to be done" without regard for who will pay to
have it done, indeed, you will probably become poor. Sometimes, the way to
do what needs to be done is find a market niche and fill it, and use this as a
basis from which to do what needs to be done.
If, instead of starting RedHat, the same people had started devoting their
free time, or even their full working time, to just trying to do "what needs
to be done", it's quite likely that a lot less would have gotten done.
It may be necessary to look ahead a little to get better results.
-s
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil McRevis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 30 Apr 1999 20:46:52 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil McRevis)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Dowell) spake the secret code
<7gdg34$7mb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thusly:
>[...] Junior can run his encyclopedia programs and
>do his homework on it. Uncle Ralph can download porno with it. Mom can
>print flyers for the local housewives' club. Dad can send faxes for the
>NRA. Sissy can fill her address book and schedules with imaginary dates
>with imaginary suitors. [...]
Hey man, this is the 90s (still). Uncle Ralph is printing flyers for
the local poker game, Mom is downloading porno for Sissy and Junior is
showing Dad how to send the fax to the NRA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Smolar)
Subject: Re: AWE 64 GOLD-Linux Compatible?
Date: 1 May 1999 02:25:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:41:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
>Anyone happen to know if the AWE 64 GOLD (ISA) sound card is compatible with
>RehHat 5.2? Any replies will be appreciated.
I believe so, I think it's a little trickier to get working than Awe 32,
because of the PnP. I remember seeing a HOWTO on the AWE series, check out
www.linux-howto.com.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Smolar)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CTRL-S
Date: 1 May 1999 02:29:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:04:47 GMT, Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:27:37 +0100, Stu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I've noticed that within a virtual console CTRL-S disables the keyboard.
>>I am sure this is not a bug, so what is its purpose. I can only think
>>that it could be to lock the console for whilst away from the keyboard,
>>but if so how do you unlock it ?
>>
>
>Control-S and Control-Q have historically been the Unix pause-scroll
>and resume-scroll TTY control characters. Control-S will pause the
>scrolling of a TTY until a subsequent Control-Q is typed.
Not just Unix, It worked for Ataris, and PCs in the BBS days.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Lieverdink)
Subject: Module problems since Linux 2.2.6
Date: 1 May 1999 02:31:47 GMT
Reply-To: peter (at) creativecontingencies (dot) com
Hi,
I've been running linux for a few years now without problems, but a few weeks
ago, after compiling 2.2.6 it started. The kernel booted fine, depmod -a ran
fine from rc.modules, but when modprobe started to install modules all I got
were a bunch of 'unresolved symbols'. I was told to upgrade modutils, which I
did. Running version 2.1.121 now, but still no joy when trying to load modules.
I waited for 2.2.7 to see if that'd fix the problem, but alas, same thing.
Here's a few of the errors I get, most of my other modules fail on the same
symbol names.
floppy.o: unresolved symbol global_bh_lock
floppy.o: unresolved symbol global_bh_count
floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_cli
floppy.o: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock
floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_save_flags
floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags
Incidentally, when I compile the kernel without modules, everything works fine.
In principle that wouldn't be a problem, except that my SoundBlaster AWE64 needs
to be configured via isapnp and thus requires modules.
The machine is a Dual Pentium II/300 with 128 Mb of RAM and 12 Gb of U/W SCSI
hard disk space. I'm running Slackware 3.6/libc.so.5.4.44 with glibc2.0.6
added onto it. My compiler is egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release), which
is set to use glibc. (Kernel is compiled with SMP support)
If anyone has a suggestion (preferably one that works ;) on how to get modules
to work again, please let me know... if possible via email as well as here.
- Peter.
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From: Charles Koerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need @!home help
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:04:59 GMT
A newbie needs info on how to set up Comcast@home.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Nelson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Where to get glibc2 source...
Date: 1 May 1999 02:09:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>Enter your_unresolved_symbol here : ___________ 8-) ... It might help
>to know since I've got 2.1.1pre1 now, no distribution though. Only Applix
>caused trouble yet and the RH rpm's (2.1.1) come with an additional
>library that is not part of the original 2.1.1 distribution ...
Well, I can't remember exactly, but it start "_dl_...", so I guess it's a
problem with the dynamic loader (ld-linux). The utils that come as part of
glibc-2.1 *do* work (setting $LD_LIBRARY_PATH) but, then glibc-2.0 linked
apps don't work.
>Mind that the versions must all match, say you cannot mix the 2.0.112
>pthreads stuff with the 2.1.0 C library stuff.
It's all 2.1 that I got, perhaps I should grab the 2.1.1pre1 patches?
--
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A member of the "Online gaming team who can't shoot anything moving at all."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Subject: Re: WordStar (or equiv.) on LINUX?
Date: 30 Apr 1999 23:02:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:16:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Or, can he just run WordStar in a DOS window? He needs this as an
>honest-to-God word processor, not a text editor.
Joe might work for you.
--
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| employer's. They hired me for my
ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions!
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.unix.security,comp.unix.solaris
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: StarOffice macros security?
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:13:47 GMT
StarOffice (http://www.stardivision.com) has macros.
How risky[1] are these macros? If they are risky, what can be done
to reduce the risk?
[1] Microsoft Office is commonly targeted by hostile macros, or
macro viruses. How risky is StarOffice to similar attacks, either
those targeted to it, or those targeted to Microsoft Office (whose
documents StarOffice can open)?
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.rpm,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: What happened to g++
Date: 30 Apr 1999 20:20:05 -0500
Brian Davis wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to compile the latest gnome, and it runs a script to
> make sure you have everything before you start the real install. One of
> the things that it checks for is a C++ complier. It looks for g++, and
> fails to find it. So I do a "find / -name g++" on my system and can't
> find it either. Then I went to sunsite.unc.edu, and cannot find g++
> anywhere. How do I get g++, or better yet, how do I give gnome what it
> wants?
>
g++ is being flushed by a better C++ compiler egcs.
If you enjoyed core dumps, by all means do all you can to find g++
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Where to get glibc2 source...
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 04:04:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Nelson wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>
>>Enter your_unresolved_symbol here : ___________ 8-) ... It might help
>>to know since I've got 2.1.1pre1 now, no distribution though. Only Applix
>>caused trouble yet and the RH rpm's (2.1.1) come with an additional
>>library that is not part of the original 2.1.1 distribution ...
>
>Well, I can't remember exactly, but it start "_dl_...", so I guess it's a
>problem with the dynamic loader (ld-linux). The utils that come as part of
>glibc-2.1 *do* work (setting $LD_LIBRARY_PATH) but, then glibc-2.0 linked
>apps don't work.
Yup, getting closer.
>>Mind that the versions must all match, say you cannot mix the 2.0.112
>>pthreads stuff with the 2.1.0 C library stuff.
>
>It's all 2.1 that I got, perhaps I should grab the 2.1.1pre1 patches?
Is it possible you overwrote /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ... the 2.1.x version
cannot load 2.0.x libraries, no go. Most 2.0.x stuff though works
with 2.1.x libraries.
You can do a strings -a /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | grep GLIBC_2.1 ... if it
shows up you must install the old one and libld.so too. If you do not
have a spare root, than copy the old one to, say, /lib/ld-linux.so.2.orig
and then re-link it using sln.
You have to be careful anyway since /bin/sh (bash) is often linked to
the ncurses library AFAIK. Contrary to libtermcap.so this one does not
work if linked to glibc-2.0.x on a 2.1 system.
Good luck,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Smolar)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CTRL-S
Date: 1 May 1999 02:27:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:27:37 +0100, Stu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've noticed that within a virtual console CTRL-S disables the keyboard.
>I am sure this is not a bug, so what is its purpose. I can only think
>that it could be to lock the console for whilst away from the keyboard,
>but if so how do you unlock it ?
>
In the olde days of Terminals, this was the method to freeze scrolling text
so that it could be read. CTRL-Q resumes.
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From: Matthew R Ashe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Module problems since Linux 2.2.6
Date: 1 May 1999 04:32:27 GMT
Peter Lieverdink wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been running linux for a few years now without problems, but a few
weeks
> ago, after compiling 2.2.6 it started. The kernel booted fine, depmod -a
ran
> fine from rc.modules, but when modprobe started to install modules all I
got
> were a bunch of 'unresolved symbols'. I was told to upgrade modutils,
which I
> did. Running version 2.1.121 now, but still no joy when trying to load
modules.
>
> I waited for 2.2.7 to see if that'd fix the problem, but alas, same
thing.
>
> Here's a few of the errors I get, most of my other modules fail on the
same
> symbol names.
>
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol global_bh_lock
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol global_bh_count
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_cli
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_save_flags
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags
>
> Incidentally, when I compile the kernel without modules, everything
works fine.
> In principle that wouldn't be a problem, except that my SoundBlaster
AWE64 needs
> to be configured via isapnp and thus requires modules.
>
> The machine is a Dual Pentium II/300 with 128 Mb of RAM and 12 Gb of U/W
SCSI
> hard disk space. I'm running Slackware 3.6/libc.so.5.4.44 with glibc2.0.6
> added onto it. My compiler is egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release),
which
> is set to use glibc. (Kernel is compiled with SMP support)
>
> If anyone has a suggestion (preferably one that works ;) on how to get
modules
> to work again, please let me know... if possible via email as well as
here.
>
> - Peter.
> --
> System/Network Administrator Creative Contingencies Pty Ltd
> Finger cafuego (at) monolith.yawc.net for PGP Public key
> To send me an email, interpret the reply-to address and fix.
I realize this is probally obvious, but when you recompiled the kernal,
did you make sure that you set the version numbers? I am still pretty new
to Linux, so if this is simplistic, sorry.
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From: lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: download installation redhat-6.0
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:33:39 -0500
I've been trying to download 6.0 to upgrade fron 5.0, I have bootnet.img
made from rawrite. I get to the part of modem, I install Real-Tek-8129
driver it autoprobes modem. I get to DHCP and enter it,then to ftp or
http site ( tried both) enter name and directory. It starts cable modem
starts flickering. Then I get ( unable to retreive the second stage
ramdisk:File not found on server base/stage2.img) tried many
sites.First time to try downloading I usally buy cd, but wanted to try
this this time. What I am I doing wrong?
Many Thanks,
Rodney LaLonde
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: I have to save my system
Date: 30 Apr 1999 23:37:30 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Sondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>my hard-disk dies and so I have to copy my Linux to a new drive.
>Currently I can mount both partitions (new and old).
>How can I copy all files and directories without losing symbolic
>links, etc.?
cd /old
cp -a . /new
That won't make the new drive bootable. You can either make a boot
floppy to bring up the new system to a point where you can
run lilo or figure out the lilo options to make it access the
right drive before you swap.
Les Mikesell
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From: Giuseppe Milicia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xdm on startup?
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:41:08 +0200
Hello,
I know it's a stupid question... But how do I run Xdm on
startup??
Thanks,
-- Giuseppe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
Subject: Re: How to upgrade Debian?
Date: 1 May 1999 04:36:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Banwart wrote:
> his is my last major hurdle before I can start using Linux as my
> primary operating system, so I am rather excited. :-)
>
> My question has to do with upgrading the software on my Debain 2.1
> system. I am aware of the apt tools, that was one of the reasons I
> chose Debian, but I'm not too sure how to handle stuff that doesn't come
>
> in a .deb file.
>
> There a small handful of packages, like GNOME, Window Maker, and
> Rosegarden, among others, that I would like to keep updated with the
> latest and greatest versions. However, most of the time the latest and
> greatest doesn't have a .deb package for quick and easy installation. I
>
> also prefer to compile most of my own programs for performance purposes.
>
> (GNOME)
>
> Would it be better for me to just compile and install from .tar.gz
> archives into /usr/local, or should I look into creating my own .deb
> packages from the
> sources? I'm afraid of installing a program from .tar.gz and having
> library conflicts,
> or finding out that I don't like a particular program and having major
> problems removing it from my system. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
WARNING WARNING WARNING
I have used the following procedure with success, but it may fail miserably
depending on changes in packages. It could successfully hose currently
working versions and programs depending on some libraries without any
warnings. BEWARE!
WARNING WARNING WARNING
I've done the following for several packages before the maintainer updated it:
- Download the source of the version packaged for debian. Get the
.orig.tar.gz file, as well as the .dsc and .diff.
- Extract the newer version. Take a look at the old version. Rename the
root directory of the newer version to the one used by the Debian-packaged
old version (you'll see which is used through a tar tvzf), and re-tar the
new version, giving its tar file the same name as the old version's tar file.
- Extract the new version using the tar file with the old name to fool
dpkg-source into thinking it's the old version. NOTE: patches may fail at
this moment if there are any source patches. Actually, it's probably a good
thing if they fail... You are only interested in files created in the
debian/ directory.
- If it extracted correctly, go to the directory it was extracted in and do:
debian/rules binary-arch
This should build your package, with the wrong version number; however, if
you are certain you have the right library versions, applying the same
process to the libraries which are not packaged yet will work.
- Install the newly built package.
Of course, to make this more robust, you should change the version number of
the package before building it, but this is far from being a robust process.
It's also highly dangerous, esp. for libraries. But if you want to stay on
the bleeding edge, it's either that, wait for the Debian maintainer to do
it, or become the Debian maintainer. You can also try to bug the Debian
maintainer, but likely you'll be told, "why don't YOU do it?" :{)
NOTE: Debian folks will probably kill me for this... If I fix a package, I
should upload it, right? Well... True enough. However, the only packages I
messed with for this are vm (not a recommended patch because it lets the
package install with emacs20.3, but it doesn't work very well with
emacs20.3) and playmidi (patches a problem with loading GUS instruments and
playing CMF files, which is an upstream problem. Sent upstream. Got
ignored. What can I do?) If the actual maintainer is interested, I can hunt
for the patch and send it, but it really should be fixed upstream (and it is
in 2.5 beta, but 2.5 is really too beta for common use)
--
Benoit Goudreault-Emond
CoFounder, KMS Group ; Student, B. Comp. Eng, Concordia University
``Being too close to a fireball can worry a man --- to death.''
-- Zeb Carter in "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein
Note: the "From:" address is not correct to protect myself against spam.
My actual e-mail address is: ``bgoudem AT axess DOT com''
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