Linux-Setup Digest #319, Volume #19 Fri, 4 Aug 00 07:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Win NT + Linux in a 20GB HD ("Lawrence C. W. Tai")
Re: cdrom driver help (Davide Bianchi)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (J Bland)
Re: 2.2.12 -> 2.2.16 (Davide Bianchi)
Re: how to install manufacturers drivers? (Davide Bianchi)
Restricting CD .. for FTP users (Paul Lentz)
User and Group Permissions ("Mark")
Re: HOWTO: Customize the login banner? (Guillermo Leandro)
Re: Serial Mouse in Redhat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: char-major-108 (Thomas Kral)
proftpd: file modification time wrong (J. Ganjs)
Re: char-major-108 (Raffael Herzog)
Re: User and Group Permissions (Paul Ashby)
Re: Framebuffer... ("Fredericv")
SV: Partition Size Advice ("Martin Karlsson")
Re: Setting clock on Linux machine ??? ("Ed Bras")
Re: I know! I know! Another XF86Config Question. ("f.g.a.m.wouters")
IDE CD Writer (Julien Bouvrais)
Re: HP LaserJet II (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda)
HELP ME ("Tiago Martins")
localtime and zoneinfo (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Patte)
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From: "Lawrence C. W. Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win NT + Linux in a 20GB HD
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:42:10 +0800
Is there any possible way to install Win NT 4 and Linux in a 20GB HD?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: cdrom driver help
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 06:44:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 03:28:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>I'm having problems setting up my cdrom. I have an old 486 that I want
>to install linux on and I'm trying to install the drivers for the cdrom,
>however, it's not working. The cdrom is an IDE type MKE and the model
>is CR-563B. I tried using the driver for the above (which was difficult
>to find), but after configuring autoexec and config files and booting
>up, the Windows 95 logo stays plastered to the screen. I also tried a
>Mitsumi ide driver, which leaves me with the error message, "Device
>Driver Not Found." I want to be able to boot to dos, then change to the
>cdrom and run the linux setup from there. Does anyone know of another
>driver option to use?
The mitsumi CD Driver should be good enough to digest everything... it
digested also my DVD Rom, my HP CDWriter and my laptop Tekra CD Rom...
I can only suggest you to try to boot with a DOS floppy (not Windows),
if you do not have a DOS floppy e-mail me.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 4 Aug 2000 01:32:22 GMT
>--
>- Alex / blowfish.
>--
>- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
>hands,
> lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
>time.
> But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
>takes
> Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
> KISS rules. That's why I use Easy Edit (ee). Small. Simple and fast.
>:-)
>- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
>geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
> geek + vi | ~/emacs
>==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
> newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
>EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
>- My SAS (Sing-A-Song)Fingerprint -v.i007bond: Doe1(-a deer a female
>deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
> Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
>needle pulling thread.)
> lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
>will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
Anybody ever told you your sig is insultingly huge?
Frinky
--
John Bland MPhys(Hons) GradInstP Webmaster and Sys Admin.
http://ringtail.cmp.liv.ac.uk/ Condensed Matter Group
Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University
"And it can suck a monkey through 30ft of garden hose!!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,local.list.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: 2.2.12 -> 2.2.16
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 06:39:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:51:27 -0500, "Michael Makuch"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running the Red hat 6.1 dist (2.2.12-20). I downloaded the 2.2.16-3
>kernel rpm package, installed it and see
<ZAP>
>Everything seems to work ok this way. What is the initrd file for? It's not
>mentioned in 'man lilo.conf'.
initrd is used to enable the bootloader to start a RAMDISK, this
ramdisk can be mounted as / and programs can be started to it.
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: how to install manufacturers drivers?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 06:46:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:49:22 -0700, "Pat Parsons"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I got a motherboard with Linux drivers on a CDROM. Does anyone know how to
>install them? Thanks
>
Probabily you have to compile the driver and add them as modules to
the linux kernel. See the documentation that came with the drivers
or ask the mobo manufacturers... there are no other solutions.
Davide
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From: Paul Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Restricting CD .. for FTP users
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 02:31:09 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll admit it I'm a newbie, and this place seems kinda hostile... :-)
I'm running RH 5.2 and wanting to restrict FTP users to their home
directory and subdirectories where they can't cd .. and get to the / .
I'm a VAX VMS geek and can't figure this out from the books I'm reading.
:-) I sorta understand I may be able to do this with the x flag (in the
directory closer to root????), but since I haven't seen this subject
discussed directly... I'm clueless!
Is there a conf file I need to work on that'll do this to where the ftp
will read it and know what to do when it fires up a process?
Help!!!! :-)
*Paul*
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: User and Group Permissions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:35:47 GMT
This may seem fairly trivial to someone who knows how to do it, but how do I
assign more than group to a directory structure or file.
Or if this is not possible, the following scenario if effectively what I
want to do. I want to allow everyone in the "admin" group to have read write
access to a directory structure and have everyone in the "normal_user" group
to just have read access whilst everyone else is denied access.
Thankyou. Regards,
Mark
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From: Guillermo Leandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOWTO: Customize the login banner?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:30:05 GMT
Hi Ed.
All you gotta do is edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. This file edits the
issue and issue.net files every time you boot up the OS or even the telnet
server...
Hope this help you...
Ed wrote:
>
> On RedHat 6.2, does anyone know how to customize the login banner? In my
> inittab, the program mingetty is called (this is the default) for
> establishing consoles. The man page for mingetty suggests that all I
> need to do is edit /etc/issue, as it uses the contents of this file to
> generate the login banner. However whenever I modify this file and then
> run telinit 1 (to force init to run again) or even reboot, I find that
> /etc/issue has returned to its unmodified state! There must be something
> generating this file dynamically but I haven't been able to discover
> what.
>
> Basically all I want to do is add
>
> /U currently signed on
>
> to the login banner to display the number of users logged in.
>
> /Ed
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse in Redhat 6.2
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,it.comp.linux,it.comp.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Date: 4 Aug 2000 03:39:07 -0400
> "Tim C. Cox" wrote:
>> I had my PS/2 mouse port get flaky on me so I got one of those adapters to
>> plug the PS/2 mouse into a DB9 serial port.
ERROR:
Those adapters are for PS/2+Serial mouses (mice?) which have the
electronics for both ports. They don't work in converting a PS/2 mouse to
a serial port UNLESS it is a PS/2+Serial mouse (but it probably won't
destroy the mouse - however, I have destroyed two serial only mouses
(mice?) by trying to use a converter going the other way, to PS/2, without
checking if the mouses (mice?) supported PS/2 ports).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Kral)
Subject: Re: char-major-108
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:07:04 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
THANK YOU ALL!
--
_______
SCIENCE Thomas Kral
SYSTEMS http://www.scisys.cz
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From: J. Ganjs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: proftpd: file modification time wrong
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:47:09 +0200
Hi,
I am using proftpd 1.2.0rc2. File modification times of files served via ftp
differ somewhat randomly from the mtimes I see when logged in via sh:
ls -l output when logged in via sh:
drwxr-xr-x 13 webadm webadm 1024 Feb 16 15:48 apache
drwxr-xr-x 48 webadm webadm 1024 Jul 17 13:11 vhosts
ls -l output when from ftp:
drwxr-xr-x 13 webadm webadm 1024 Feb 16 14:48 apache
drwxr-xr-x 48 webadm webadm 1024 Jul 17 11:11 vhosts
1 directory is listed 1 hr earlier, the other 2 hrs earlier. How can this be?
Any hint welcome.
bye ganjs
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: char-major-108
Date: 04 Aug 2000 10:55:41 +0200
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Thomas Kral outgrape:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> THANK YOU ALL!
Ooops, didn't see your message.
It's very simple: char-major-108 doesn't exist. pppd tries to locate
it, but that's only for future extensions in the kernel. For now, just
ignore the error message.
--
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
May the penguin be with you!
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From: Paul Ashby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: User and Group Permissions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:54:20 GMT
Mark wrote:
>
> This may seem fairly trivial to someone who knows how to do it, but how do I
> assign more than group to a directory structure or file.
>
> Or if this is not possible, the following scenario if effectively what I
> want to do. I want to allow everyone in the "admin" group to have read write
> access to a directory structure and have everyone in the "normal_user" group
> to just have read access whilst everyone else is denied access.
Don't know if this is the best or only way:
set ownership of directory to admin, group normal_user and then set
permissions to something like
rwxr-x---
ls -al would be something like
drwxr-x--- admin normal_group directory_name
--
Paul Ashby
TakeU2.com Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
t. +44 (0)20 7955 1477
m. +44 (0)7973 353 692
Going out in London ? check out http://www.takeu2.com
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From: "Fredericv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Framebuffer...
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:45:46 GMT
I have a matrox G400, an S3 virge, a neomagic (laptop)
and a permedia2 card.
There is the Permedia- & matrox framebuffer driver available, but
I don't really know about the others. For the moment the most
important is the permedia2.
How can I check if I need to recompile my kernel?
On the box with the perm2 I use Mandrake7.1 out of the box.
(I'm not much of a compiler, yet...)
Thanks,
Frederic
"Michael Meissner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Fredericv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with framebuffer?
> > Is it possible to use framebuffer to enhance the console look,
> > but use the normal xserver to work in X?
> > Or doesn't framebuffer really slow down X graphically?
>
> It may depend on which video card you have. On my Matrox video cards, it
works
> fine to use the Matrox framebuffer device and the 3.3.6 and 4.0 X servers.
> Similarly, my NeoMagic & TNT-1 X servers and the VESA framebuffer. I have
> heard some X servers and framebuffer combinations don't play well
together, but
> off hand I'm not sure which ones these are.
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
> Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: "Martin Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: SV: Partition Size Advice
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:11:46 +0200
This weekend i am installing RH 6.2 on my system for the first time. Any
ideas how big my w98SE partition has to be. It's 1.1GB now. My thought is to
make it 2GB, and leave the rest for linux. It's a 13GB drive. Also if i
install it, how do I upgrade lilo for the 1024 thingy once it is installed
or do you do it befor the setup? And is there a good chemistry program to
use drawing synthesis on the computer as chemdraw?
Martin Karlsson
*real newbie at this*
David Stackis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:3986eac9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Does anyone out there in Linux land have any advice on partition sizes?
>
> Here is what I have....
>
> 6.4GB Hd...
> /usr = 5GB
> /root = 500MB
> /home = 500MB
> /swap = 127MB
>
> Do I have too much for /usr?.....I am installing staroffice, and such in
the
> dir, so I just I just thought that this would be the ideal dir to make
> larger than the rest.
>
> Does this layout seem to be a good one?......everything on my 6.2 box
seems
> to be working great.....sound, modem, display....all cards were
> found.....though it took me three weeks to get everything working.....*s*
>
> I would hate to redo the partitions, but I want me Linux box to hummmm
> properly....
>
> Thanks for any advice...
>
> TIA!
> David Stackis
> http://www.stackis.com
>
>
>
>
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting clock on Linux machine ???
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:37:20 +0200
"David Efflandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:32:54 -0700, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You did nothing wrong. you changed the linux time but not the RTC (Real
Time
> >Clock) clock.
> >When linux reboots, the linux time get its time from the RTC.
> >Here is the fix:
> >$ su -
> >password: <secret>
> ># timetool
>
> Or simply run 'setclock' as root once your system time is corrected.
> 'ntpdate' from the xntp package is handy for updating your system time
> before using setclock.
>
> >Ed Bras wrote:
> >
> >> My clock on the RedHat 6.2 is one hour behind.
> >> I then change it with date ......
> >> However, every time I restart the machine it contains the old time
again ???
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong ??
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ed Bras
> >
>
>
> --
> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
>
It works
Thanks guys,
Ed Bras
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From: "f.g.a.m.wouters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I know! I know! Another XF86Config Question.
Date: 4 Aug 2000 10:17:09 GMT
Johnny Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<J5ph5.115467$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hey everyone....I know I have seen this question asked many times in the
> groups, but I still can't figure why I can't resize the resolution of my
> screen.
>
> When I had Win98 on my box I was able to set the resolution to 1024x768,
> 800x600, 640x480. Since I have installed Redhat 6.1 and X 4.01, I am (I
> believe) only able to view at 640x480. I can change the bit depth, but
that
> is it.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any insight into my problem.
>
Perhaps you forgot to install the svga-server ?
It's just a guess.
Frans Wouters
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From: Julien Bouvrais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD Writer
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:45:26 GMT
Hi
I've tried to set up my IDE CD-Writer (LG 8042 CD-RW) according to
the CD-Writer HowTO and still have some problems making it work.....
I've installed the ide-scsi driver as a module and prevented the regular
ide driver from detecting my drive at boot time... The CD Writer is
recognized by the scanbus command of cdrecord, but gives me a strange
warning about the CD capabilities:
******************************************************************
coyote:~# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
0,0,0 0) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' '1.05' Removable
CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
*****************************************************************
Moreover when I try a dummy write to a CD, it fails as follows:
*************************************************************************
coyote:~# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -dummy -multi -audio MakeIp//audio.raw
Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'LG '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8042B '
Revision : '1.05'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities
page.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in dummy mode for multi session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
page.
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
page.
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*****************************************************************
And the ide-scsi driver complains in the syslog file:
Aug 4 06:40:36 coyote kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more
data than expected - discarding data
Aug 4 06:40:36 coyote kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 28 of 40 bytes
Would somebody have an idea?
Thanks
JU
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet II
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:42:12 +0200
Hi,
Is it a postcript one ?
S�bastien
Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote:
> Ok. I got tired of paying hand over fist for inkjet cartridges.
> So I bought a LaserJet II.
> Any ideas were I can get linux printer drivers for it?
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From: "Tiago Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP ME
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:55:29 +0100
I've a prolem with my Red Hat Linux.
My Database Server adminstrator moved away from my company (bad
professional), and he didn't let my know the root password of this PC.
It has Oracle 8i installed and it's a database server.
How can i recover my root password? I need to have access to it? Or can i do
it remotly?
It's very urgent because without access to this PC my company can lost some
clients.
Thanx for your colaboration.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Patte
Subject: localtime and zoneinfo
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:14:48 +0530
Bonjour,
I try to set my clock using the symlink /etc/localtime and nothing
happens: I only get the hour of bios.
/etc/localtime --> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris
or
/etc/localtime --> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta
return the same hour!!
Who could help me?
Thank you.
-- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
45 rue des St P�res. 75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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