Linux-Misc Digest #915, Volume #20 Sun, 4 Jul 99 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help!! need official redhat boot disk(Release 6.0) (John Thompson)
Re: RealPlayer G2 (.ra, .ram) files?? (Leonard Evens)
Re: An "ls" question (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Recommended First Linux Books- online and off (Jim Hill)
Re: Accessing dos files from Linux. (coffee)
Re: Printing (apsfilter?) problems with SuSE 6.1 (ORRIN)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("William Edward
Woody")
Re: ISPS (Richard Corfield)
Re: An "ls" question (Bryan)
Re: Linux Partition Question (Leonard Evens)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX (Leonard Evens)
3Com Fast EtherLink 10/100 MB BusMAster PCI Ethernet Adapter (Chris)
Re: Mounting a FAT floppy (William Burrow)
Re: kernel patch 2.2.10 (Kris)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Marco Nelissen)
DPMS problem when resuming (Tim Harrell)
compiling gap on a linux machine (John Stembridge)
Help! What could it be? (Denis)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! need official redhat boot disk(Release 6.0)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:30:36 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just accidently erased the official redhat boot disk(release 6.0),
> which is used to set up the official redhat linux 6.0, if someone
> has that disk, please send me a package of the whole disk in a zip
> file or tell me how I can make a new copy? Thanks. By the way, please
> give me a reply at my email address so that I can know it, as I am
> using this web based news server which I am not very comfortable with.
Isn't there an image of the boot diskette on the CD? Use
"dd" (from linux) or RAWRITE.EXE (from DOS/Windows) to write
it onto your diskette. Both these programs should be on your
system, or at least on the RH CD.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer G2 (.ra, .ram) files??
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:53:15 -0500
Michel Catudal wrote:
> Mike Persell wrote:
> >
> > Dave Bailey wrote:
> > > OK, I had forgotten the %s. Now it gets the title, author,
> > > copyright, and says it's buffering the stream - but it never
> > > actually starts playing the stream. Interestingly, it also
> > > doesn't play the test file right. It seems to just keep
> > > repeating a tiny smidgen of it over and over again.
> >
> > When you get the answer make sure you post it...I have the same
> > problem on the G2 version.
> >
> > Mike
>
> Mine works fine. This is under SuSE, it worked ok also on
> RedHat 6.0
>
> Look a the beginning of the attachment. You can put that in
> /etc/profile
> Change whatever is needed if you installed on a different directory.
>
> The rest is unrelated, I'm too lazy to make a special file.
>
> On RedHat make sure that the sound isn't enabled under Gnome
> since you would get no sound out of anything but gnome as it
> takes full control of the sound card.
>
I seen this mentioned several times. But we seem to have got a version
of realplayer (5.0) to run without disabling sound under gnome, with
some glitches. Our difficulty getting it to run didn't seem to depend on
whether or not sound was enabled under gnome.
>
> --
> use OS/2 for a crash proof work environment
> use Linux for safe and quick internet access
> use Winblows to test the latest viruses
> http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
> We have software, food, music, news, search,
> history, electronics and genealogy pages.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/RealPlayerG2"
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> TIMID_DIR="/usr/lib/timidity"
> export TIMID_DIR
>
> GS_DEVICE=bjc250
> export GS_DEVICE
>
> MOZILLA_HOME="/opt/netscape"
> export MOZILLA_HOME
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: An "ls" question
Date: 4 Jul 1999 16:56:09 GMT
In article <7lm8iv$mp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Fink wrote:
>On Sat, 03 Jul 1999 20:28:32 +0000 Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>You can use emacs *and* man pages... Funny that emacs would be hated,
>>considering ksh, bash, and quite a few other programs use the same CTRL
>>key sets. :)
>
>I don't *know* the bash command keys, after using Unix shells for
>something like nine years. Speaking of documentation: why aren't
>they documented in the bash manpage? All the bash manpage has on my
>system is a description of a format for defining keybindings.
That format is documented under "Readline Notation"
Bash's emacs-like command line editor is documented under "Readline
Command Names" which runs on for several pages, ending at "HISTORY".
Unfortunately, Bash's vi-like command line editor is not yet
documented. (Enable it with "set -o vi".)
If your manpage wasn't installed correctly, install bash from source, or
try http://judi.greens.org/cgi-bin/dwww?type=runman&location=bash/1
(Beware, 250K page.)
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hill)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Recommended First Linux Books- online and off
Date: 4 Jul 1999 17:03:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <D7Hf3.5795$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graeme Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wants a Linux book:
>I thought
>about Running Linux from O'Reilly Publishing, but it's a few years old now
>unfortunately.
According to O'Reilly's website, the third edition of Running Linux is
due out sometime in August. Yippee!
Jim
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swcp.com/~jimhill/
"People have grown used to thinking of computers as unreliable,
and it doesn't have to be that way." -- Linus Torvalds
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing dos files from Linux.
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 12:10:25 -0400
Julian Evans wrote:
>
> I have LILO set up to boot dos and linux and it works great. I was wondering
> how i can get to my dos files from linux, if that is possible. I primarily
> need to move stuff from my linux partition to my dos partition. I am using Red
> Hat Linux 6.0.
mount -t dos /dev/hdx /mnt/dos
make a directory called dos in /mnt and replace x in hd to what the dos
partition is. Might have to adjust 'dos' to match partition type.
--
"Thank Heaven for Holidays. Now I can get some work done"
coffee at indy dot net * ICQ 1614986
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORRIN)
Subject: Re: Printing (apsfilter?) problems with SuSE 6.1
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 17:23:16 GMT
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 02:30:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim
Sanders) wrote:
>> Tim Sanders wrote:
>>
>> > <snip>
>> > I've recently installed SuSE 6.1 <snip>
>> >
>> > While logged in as root:-
>> > If I enter
>> > cat /var/log/boot.msg > /dev/lp0
>> > text is output to my printer,<snip>
>
>> > If I execute lpr against the same file, then
>> > a) a queued job appears normally, via lpq
>> > b) output to the printer is in landscape mode, but only prints a fraction
>> > of a vertical column of the text, in varying positions across the page,
>> > with occasional garbage added. <snip>
>
>Christopher,
>
>Thank you for the suggestions.
>I had initially used Yast, but after problems moved on to apsfilter
>setup. Just to be absolutely sure, I followed your advice and
>reconfigured my HPLJ4L with Yast. Alas, the problem is still there (
>garbage printout with lpr).
I got the same 'landscape' mode with my SuSE6.1 setup with an Epson
LQ-570 dot matrix printer. I found that the 'raw' option set in the
environment (env PRINTER=raw) forces the printer to print normally but
there is no formatting!
=============================
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Orrin's Caribbean Index - http://www.orrin.org/carib/
Syosset Camera Club - http://www.orrin.org/syocc/
HS Class Reunion - http://www.orrin.org/wphs/
Our e-mail address is at http://www.orrin.org/email.html
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From: "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:25:37 -0700
F. Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I think Apple cut a deal with Motorola and IBM to only promote Apple
> operating systems and Apple hardware for desktop PowerPC systems.
> Why else is there not PowerPC clone MB suppliers? ...
But there are other workstations (made by IBM) which use the PowerPC
architecture. Apple's hardware is the best known, but not the only
system that uses the PowerPC.
One of the problems that prevent the mass production of a PowerPC
based system is the lack of a cheap standard motherboard like in
the Intel world.
> ... I talked to a fellow demostrating BeOS at a computer
> show, and he said it was primarily Apple that killed BeOS on PowerPC.
> If this is true, it's just as bad as some of the things M$ has done.
It's a convenient party line, but it's not true: the LinuxPPC
distribution contains plenty of example code. No; the real
reason why Be isn't on the Mac platform is because (1) Apple
wouldn't loan engineering resources, and because (2) Be sees
an opportunity in the low-cost PC clone market to displace
Microsoft by manufacturers who don't want to pay the "Windows
Tax."
- Bill Woody
The PandaWave
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From: Richard Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: ISPS
Date: 02 Jul 1999 18:03:30 +0100
"Frans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But demon does support things like bsmtp. So it's better than
> that Freeserve thingy I heard getting mentioned before.
I'm starting to wonder if that 10 pounds a month is worth it compared
with all the false connections I'm currently getting with
Freeserve. However if ADSL is a close as some say I'll hang on for
that.
- Richard.
--
_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Richard Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
_/ _/ _/ _/ Web Page: http://www.littondale.freeserve.co.uk
_/_/ _/ _/ Dance (Ballroom, RnR), Hiking, SJA, Linux, ... [ENfP]
_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ PGP2.6 Key ID: 0x0FB084B1 PGP5 Key ID: 0xFA139DA7
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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:08:10 +0000
From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: An "ls" question
Carl Fink wrote:
>
> On Sat, 03 Jul 1999 20:28:32 +0000 Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >You can use emacs *and* man pages... Funny that emacs would be hated,
> >considering ksh, bash, and quite a few other programs use the same CTRL
> >key sets. :)
>
> I don't *know* the bash command keys, after using Unix shells for
> something like nine years. Speaking of documentation: why aren't
> they documented in the bash manpage? All the bash manpage has on my
> system is a description of a format for defining keybindings.
> --
> Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
> -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
As posted in some of the other responses, there's options to ksh & bash
that let you change your line-editing keys, i.e.
set -o vi
Or, I always use
export EDITOR=editornamegoeshere
vi, emacs, and probably other common editors can be used for
command-line editing/manipulation. I wonder what it would do if you set
it to perl...
-- Bryan Scott
-- CTR Online Systems Administration
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Partition Question
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:22:44 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> New Linux user question:
>
> If I partition a 1GB hard disk to have MS-DOS and Linux partitions is
> the Linux partition usable for MS-DOS and Windows applications or
> should I have a small partition for Linux to avoid wasting space?
>
> Would appreciate info about experiences with partitioning between
> MS-DOS/Windows and Linux. I'm awaiting delivery of a book that should
> help me out on this, but am anxious to get the partitioning and
> installation done.
>
> Please email me...Thanks.
Make a separate partition, not to be used for system files, and format
it
so it will be accessible from dos or windows. vfat would be a good
choice. Then it will be accessible from Linux, and
I think Windows will see it also. I am currently doing this with my
zip drive, and I think I set up my son's computer this way and that it
works.
Of course, as long as you mount a dos or windows partition under
Linux, you will be able to read from it and write to it (as root).
I think it would be dangerous to try to write to a Linux (ext2)
partition from dos or windows.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:49:45 -0500
Leila Schneberger wrote:
> After doing an upgrade to Red Hat 6.0 (from 5.2), my LaTeX (which was
> also presumably upgraded using RPM) broke. I checked the
> /tmp/upgrade.log for any error messages, but it said everything was
> installed fine. But I get the following error, which didn't happen with
> the same *.tex file yesterday:
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (format=latex 1999.4.5) 22 JUN
> 1999 16:38
> **newsletd
> (newsletd.tex
> LaTeX2e <1998/12/01>
> Babel <v3.6k> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)
>
> The file contains this line:
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> I suspect that it is some kind of configuration problem, but I don't
> know where to start looking. Any help or pointers would be greatly
> appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Leila
The way tetex is organized was changed when going from the
version under RH5.* and that under RH6.0. But the new tetex
rpm package does not adequately take care of the changes. If
you install tetex from scratch as part of a new installation,
then all is well. But if you upgrade, you experience the sort
of problem described above although the package does not
complain during the upgrade. You can check if this is the
case by running
rpm -V tetex
If all is well, there will only be one line of output which is
innocuous. Otherwise, you will find all sorts of files are
missing. To solve the problem, use rpm to uninstall ALL
the tetex packages and then reinstall them. You have to
fiddle a bit since this has to be done in the right order. Or
when reinstalling, you can list them all on the command
line, and rpm will get it right.
There is another problem with tetex. It doesn't by default
create some of the typical .fmt files, e.g., amstex, eplain,
and texinfo. However, you can create these by running
(example for amstex)
tex --ini /usr/share/texmf/tex/amstex/config/amstex.ini
This will produce the file amstex.fmt, which should end up
in /usr/share/texmf/web2c
There is also another possible source of problems if the
above does not apply to you. Because of the reorganization,
it is possible that you will have to reset TEXINPUTS to an
appropriate string if you had previously set it. If you had
not previously set it and were using the default, this should
not be the source of your problem.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Subject: 3Com Fast EtherLink 10/100 MB BusMAster PCI Ethernet Adapter
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 06:18:49 GMT
Hi,
Has anyone gotten the 3COM Fast Etherlink 10/100mb BusMaster PCI Ehternet
Adapter to work with RedHat 5.2 or another distribution of Linux ?
If so what drvier did you use ? I'd like to use this card if possible instead
of buying another one.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Chris De Chiara
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Mounting a FAT floppy
Date: 4 Jul 1999 18:38:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 02:30:47 GMT,
Bernhard Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried mounting a floppy disk that is FAT (FAT12 if I am correct)
>Using mount -t fvat /mnt/floppy /floppy doesn't work, I know this works for
If there is an entry in /etc/fstab, mount /floppy should work.
Otherwise, try su -c 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy'.
Make sure that /floppy exists, that the user option is given in fstab
and that /dev/fd0 exists.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris)
Subject: Re: kernel patch 2.2.10
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 18:13:30 GMT
Hi Frederic L. W. Meunier,
>>This worked for me too. Kind of disapointing that a patch has to be
>>modified by the end user. For the record I'm using patch 2.1b
>
>Hmm. You're talking about what? I got the 2.2.0 tarball and 2.2.1-2.2.10.bz2
>patches and never had a problem using the patch command. Maybe it's a problem
>with your patch. I used patch -p0 and it worked fine.
No; his version of patch is old, as previously said in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If his version of patch is _that_ old, chances are his system is
relatively ancient also, and that it's inherently insecure. So, any
crackers reading this thread will think "oh, kewl!" and off they go.
--
Kris
For a faster reply, use:
smaug [{at}] dufas [{dot}] globalnet.co.uk
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From: Marco Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: 4 Jul 1999 18:17:37 GMT
In comp.sys.be.misc Dale Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: i'd love to run be on my g3 (it's on my dell at the office right now)....but i
: won't blame the wrong guy.
Oh yes you are. You seem to think that Be does not make BeOS run on the G3
because they're friends with Intel now, whereas the reality of the situation is
that you can't base a solid business (and Be is still a business, in case you
hadn't realized) on reverse-engineered hardware specs. Be needs cooperation
from the hardware vendor to make sure that they can fully support their
product, and don't get the rug yanked out from under them when those hardware
specs change next month.
Of course Be can make BeOS run on G3s (I'd be suprised if they don't have one
running BeOS in their office somewhere), but it takes a whole lot more to turn
BeOS-on-G3 into a fully supported product that you can base your business on.
Marco
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From: Tim Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: DPMS problem when resuming
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 19:03:16 GMT
Hi,
I have the DPMS powersave working on my Suse 6.1 box in that I can get
the monitor to go into standby mode.
Trouble is that when I make the monitor reactivate, the display goes
haywire, behaving as though it doesn't recognise the video card. I can
only get back to sanity by quitting X (Alt-F1 since I can't see
anything!) and restarting.
It works fine apart from this.
My spec:
Suse 6.1
XFree86 3.3.3
Diamond Viper V330
Belinea 10 70 50 Monitor
Any ideas?
PS: It behaves ok in the console ('setterm -powersave') just not X.
--
Tim Harrell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Crossposted-To: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: compiling gap on a linux machine
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Stembridge)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 18:51:55 GMT
Has anyone been able to get gap 3.4.4 to compile on a recent version
of Linux?
I have Linux 2.2.10 (Red Hat 6.0 but an upgraded kernel) running on an
AMD K6-3, with egcs-2.91.66 and glibc-2.1.1 (and libc-5.3.12).
I have the sources for gap 3.4.3 and 3.4.4.
When I try to 'make ibm-i386-linux-gcc2' (the closest target), the
compiler barfs with:
gcc -DSYS_IS_USG -DSYS_HAS_TIME_PROTO -DSYS_HAS_SIG_T=void \
-c system.c -o system.o
system.c:1571: conflicting types for `ioctl'
/usr/include/sys/ioctl.h:42: previous declaration of `ioctl'
system.c: In function `syAnswerCont':
system.c:1608: warning: `return' with a value, in function returning void
system.c: In function `syAnswerTstp':
system.c:1619: warning: `return' with a value, in function returning void
system.c: In function `syAnswerIntr':
system.c:2738: warning: `return' with a value, in function returning void
make[1]: *** [system.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/gap3r4p4/src'
make: *** [ibm-i386-linux-gcc2] Error 2
The error messages are virtually identical with gap 3.4.3.
Also, I have no trouble compiling gap 3.4.3 (haven't tried 3.4.4) on an
Intel P133 with a Linux 2.0.x kernel, gcc 2.7.2.1, and libc-5.3.12.
Although the K6 has a Pentium-compatible architecture, when I run the
gap binary on the K6 machine, it dumps core. I examined an 'strace'
and didn't see any smoking guns. I don't think it is a library problem,
or at least not a linking problem.
Anyone have any ideas?
John Stembridge [to send e-mail, use jrs AT umich.edu].
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! What could it be?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:20:30 -0400
Hi, I have a strange problem when I'm connected to my ISP (which is a
modem conection to Duke). What is happening is that once I connect and
say surve the web for a while, all of the sudden my netscape can't
connect to any place anymore (I get "Connect: Looking up host:
www.blahblah.com" and nothing happens), or I can't send any email with
my email (kmail) program, nor can i telnet. I noticed that if I
reconnect (i.e. disconnect and then connect back again) it again works
for a while (say 7 minutes). At the same time if from the beginning I'm
listening to some live real audio, then it sometimes stops as well,
while sometimes DOESN'T!
So I dont understand what is going on. Please, help with your thoughts
on that.
thanks.
denis
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