Hola caracola,
ahora trabajo a una resolución de 1024x768 y las fuentes del
Xterm son pequeñas. Tengo esta línea en el `~/.Xresources'
Xterm*Font: -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
Pero es que, no solo no me carga esta fuente, sino que pongo
cualquier cosa en
Hola,
pues que en el `~/.xsession' tengo la línea
xset s 75
y resulta que no, que no se activa el salvapantallas ni a la
de tres. Lo vuelvo a lanzar desde una Xterm,
$ xset -s 5
pero nada. Tampoco con `on' o `activate'. Pero en ocasiones,
no sé porqué, vuelve a funcionar, aunque
El Wed, Sep 29, 1999,
Han Solo...
Hola a todos, os mando una cosilla que seguro que os
gusta. Más de uno se habrá visto en una de estas.
Muy bueno. Ya puestos os voy a contar una cosa que me ocurrió
no hace mucho.
Tengo el teléfono de casa en la misma mesa que el ordenador,
así
El Tue, Sep 28, 1999,
Roberto Suarez Soto...
# fbset
mode name # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128
4 endmode
O sea, 75.694 Hz, ¿no?
No :-) Por lo menos, cuando miro el programita éste
del monitor para
Hola!
Escribia para ver si alguien de Barcelona (o alrededores) que sea
de esta lista tiene el primer CD de la distribución Linux-Debian que
vende IDAgora (el de la Linux Actual no). Resulta que me lo he
comprado y el primer CD tiene defectos de estampación que hace
que muchos paquetes no
El domingo 03 octubre de 1999 a las 00:04:26, Cosme Perea Cuevas escribió:
ahora trabajo a una resolución de 1024x768 y las fuentes del
Xterm son pequeñas.
Yo llamo a xterm con los siguientes parámetros
prog xterm xterm xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white -C -fn 9x15 -sl 500
(uso icewm como
Hi, people.
When I log in my system using a console terminal my aliases, locales
sets and variables (stored in /etc/profile) work fine. I start X and
they're still valid till I log out. When I boot my system with runlevel
2 (starts xdm) and use xdm to log in, these prefferences doesn't work
:set textwidth=80
Works with vim, imagine it works with other vi's. You can put that in
the rc file for your particular flavor.
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BW can anybody tell me to set the line wrap to 80 in vi?
Try ':set wm=76' to set it to 76 chars.
BW i can't find this type of info anywhere.
I generally use vim, which has a ':help' command which is quite useful.
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I'm upgrading slink-potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
(after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to
grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this:
-
Need to get
I am trying to help someone setup their Diamond Viper V770 Ultra under
Linux (not sure exactly which distro they use, but I'm a debian person
myself).
They are having problems with X-windows (what else?) description of
problem :-
1) Window appears to be four times it's correct size.
2)
The latest version of gnome-apt is not compatible with the rest of
the potato libraries. Is there a newer ? 0.3.4
thanks
Oz Dror
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I re-installed fileutils and shellutils since I was getting error messages
about not finding du and id as well.
Seems to be working just fine.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Eric
On 01-Oct-99 eric k. wolven wrote:
Ray:
You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote:
Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish
to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to
my ttyS0 port. Thanks,
Not those programs specifically, but I think you will find minicom a
I and some others are working on a site which which can assist the Pacifica
Supporters Association in its launch. The immediate need is to record
basic contact info + some other information. Shortly thereafter, we will
want to manage electronic discussions and votes--ideally, teh whle process
of
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better
though, it leaves room for replies.
Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns,
maybe I need separate command in muttrc?
I'm not sure what
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old
hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For
weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my
mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows:
runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted
I'm not using smail so I can't check this myself, but you might take a
look at /etc/suid.conf. If there's an entry for the file, or the
directory containing it, then suidmanager will reset the ownership and
permissions during the cron.daily run.
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:10:06PM +1000, Alan
Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and
wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will
be running solo debian.
Thanks so much
Jeff
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:26:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I was wanting to compile the gcc source package from potato under
slink.
My suggestion is that unless you really *need* the packaged version you
shouldn't bother - it's not even the standard version of any Debian
package
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 08:29:50PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
I have to compile and cross-compile several sources on a
PII machine, for both its own and a 486.
I'd like to know how to specify that to 'make'.
I had a look at both 'man gcc' 'man g++', but these are
huge, and I'm not a
Hi Jeff,
I would try a simple approach. You only need two partitions, root and
swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory.
32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assigned
root first, then swap as the last partition. You could partition
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
Hi Jeff,
I would try a simple approach. You only need two partitions, root and
swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory.
32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assigned
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the package
and prevent accidental upgrading.
Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to
remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kernel.
Plus
I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error
wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the
package after the original at-get dist-update errors).
Can anyone tell me what to do? I had re-DL'ed the file just in case it was
corrupted.
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:51:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error
wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the
package after the original at-get dist-update errors).
Hmmm... never
I've got a system running on a 13GB drive on /dev/hda. I've got an idential
model of drive on /dev/hdb.
The plan is to use something like dump/restore to keep /dev/hdb as a pretty
good mirror of /dev/hda. (By pretty good, I mean... it's okay if I lose
some log entries, etc I just want to be
cu is in the uucp package.
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote:
Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish
to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to
my ttyS0 port. Thanks,
- Clint
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I've been trying to get KDevelop installed for a few days now. The
kdevelop.org homepage seems to be offline, and previously when I was able
to connect the .deb file I found did not download correctly.
Installing from tarball, ./configure complains about not finding giflib30
which should be
Unbelievable...
Why r u guys discussing about brazilian daylight savings? I do think
that here is a place for debian related material discussion... You're
supposed to discuss this in private...
Also, they have this in US too... so, why cant we get this roun'
here??:)
Regards
Eber Diniz
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Pete Harlan wrote:
I'm upgrading slink-potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
(after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to
grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this:
99.9% chance that you are behind a satanic
Whenever I run install.bat to load linux, I eventually run into a message
unable to open an initial console
this message occurs immediately after the messages
unable to load NLS charset . . .
VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem) readonly
I am installing from a dos
Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and
wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will
be running solo debian.
Thanks so much
Jeff
Jeff,
I know you've received at least one reply, but let me put in my 1.575128
Euro's worth.
With
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote:
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better
though, it leaves room for replies.
Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc
hello everyone ...
i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
subdirectories using wget ...
is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget scatered
all throughout ???
TIA,
Chad
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:51:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following
error
wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to
Hi,
I'm using apt-move to feed my local potato mirror with the deb-Files
from /var/cache/apt/archives downloaded by apt-get.
After an 'apt-get update' apt-move refuses to copy the newest files,
because the Packages files are out of sync. I could of course use
'apt-move get' to retrieve the
Hi. I have a few problems. I am trying to install debian on a 408mb hard
drive. I also have a 345mb drive. I have tried every combination of jumper
settings to get one to act as a master and one a slave. For some reason the
computer (still in dos) does not recognize both drives. Does anyone have
shaul wrote:
Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is
consuming too much memory.
Netscape (Navigator and Communicator) are statically linked to the
Motif library, which explains a good deal of its bloat. If you're
comparing Communicator to
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Chadi wrote:
hello everyone ...
i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
subdirectories using wget ...
is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget
scatered all throughout ???
I'm not sure but
Hello!
Sorry for not replying for a so long time. I'll to get a network adapter
soon, so that the problem will be solved.
Thanks very much for your suggestion, I'll try it as it sounds quite easy
and I'm no linux (network) expert.
I'm also talking about the net emulation with Phil, but I think,
Hello!
Here I am again after a long, long time in a galaxy far, far away...
Sorry for not replying so long, but I was terribly busy all the time. And
thanks for all your work on this issue!!
After reading the .inf (it's in plain text, and commented :)), you don't
use a PPP connection - you use
Perhaps wrong permissions on smail (runq is a link on it).
Under slink, smail had the following permissions (is suid root):
-rwsr-xr-x root/root301144 1998-10-13 19:01 usr/sbin/smail
Just a guess,
Martin
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
I am sure that my system is in a bad
Hello!
Don't know exactly, but I think the kernel fails to detect the fat32
partition correctly and then stops. Sorry for not investigating into it
further, but I'm very busy at the moment.
Maybe someone can confirm this suggestion and/or give furher/other ones??
Kind Regards,
Stephan Hachinger
I do not think your problem is permissions. See note
below.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes:
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old
hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For
weeks now I have been living with dozens of
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:49:28AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
...
The general approach is to build it twice, normally reconfiguring in
between. You could also simply run the 486 code on both 486 and Pentium
II - unless you're noticing enough a speed increase from optimization to
care about on
Hi All,
I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably
non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to
work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions?
Thanks
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You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes
Thought I'd mention the primary big problems I had with the update. These
are ones for which I found no answer (I'm hardly a guru, though. I expect
the workaround is out there somewhere.) I thought it might be nice for
whoever's writing the install scripts...
Both gnome and kde were problems.
Hi. I have been trying to install my linux distribution and am having
problems with my cdrom drive. The cd is connected to an interface card with
2 rca jacks sticking out the back. The install will not mount the cdrom. My
computer is a 486 /sx33. The hard drive is connected to an input card with
I have several excellent references that are in .html format, rather
large ones. I want to add them to my regular Debian installation using
apt via alien. This is so that I can use DWWW and other existing search
systems and online docs. Any suggestions about how to do this?
Thanks!
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*- On 3 Oct, Chadi wrote about on selective multi file delete
hello everyone ...
i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
subdirectories using wget ...
is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget
scatered all throughout ???
TIA,
Gregory T. Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/usr/bin/ldd is one of the dynamic-linker utilities, and is provided by
the ldso package. It definately ought to be present... I'd suggesr
reinstalling ldso.
hmm... ok i am a newbie, how do i do that?
or can i just
I would suggest one based on the Trident 4DWave chipset. These things can be
found
for as low as $15, and they are excellent sound cards. Not to mention the Linux
support is great due to Trident releasing all the necessary specs to the ALSA
people.
Sean
Robert Kerr wrote:
Hi All,
I'm
Hi All,
I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably
non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to
work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions?
Thanks
The best bargain in the business has got to be the Creative
I'd probably just snarf the package off the Debian website. Go to
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/base/ldso.html, and you should
be given the option of downloading the debfile. Once completed, do
``dpkg -i ldso*.deb'' (as root).
Note: I'm assuming that you're running the stable branch
I am trying to install some new deb packages and I am using a *fake* qt1g
package which I made with the equivs utility. Geheimnis will not upgrade
because the version of qt I have (the fake) is too new. I have never seen
this problem before. Anyone know how I can fix it?
dpkg: dependency
Hi,
After many mistakes, defective cables, and a lot of help from these
people,
I have login to my Slink box from a Win95 box. I have:
A null modem 9-pin mini cable about 10 meters long.
HyperTerminal on Win95
(windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Hyper
Terminal\hypertrm.exe)
Direct to
The best thing really to do is go to the drive manufacturer's website, and
find and download their diagnostic software for your hard drive.
Unfortunately, you'll need some kind of DOS-bootable floppy or hard drive
partition to RUN the software. I just had two hard drives go to a series
of
Being a Debian-newbie I am fascinated of apt and want to
use it on both Debian-boxes in my home-net.
I access a german ftp-site and it works quite well.
(Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to
Todd Suess´ recently published one:
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main
No idea about installing an MBR on a slave drive, but why not put the
additional configuration in your lilo.conf and boot from your master
drive? That way you can control the boot process from the lilo prompt with
out having to go into the BIOS.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller
Hi!
I'd like to have a bootable CD that contains a not-so-small Debian
installation with most console utilities to repair a broken file
system. It'd need to have raidtools, tar, cp, dd in full features
versions.
To make that disk, I'd probably generate a Debian installation on a
spare disk that
If you've got some disk-space which can be shared between the two
machines (NFS mount, Jaz/Zip drive, etc.) you could try using apt-move,
which was recently installed into potato. It can migrate the
downloaded debfiles into the proper hierarchy, and generate the
required control files, to allow
On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote:
This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that
of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package
everything should work as planned.
Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the epoch now. I tried to add one
but it did
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:55:22AM -0500, Brad wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote:
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better
though, it leaves room for replies.
Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that
On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote:
On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote:
This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that
of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package
everything should work as planned.
Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the epoch now.
First off, my apologies if this email is considered off-topic. The
reason I am posting to this list about this subject is because I
have received excellent help and support in the past from other
debian users.
Just yesterday I noticed in one of my log files a number of connection
attempts to my
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote:
: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
:
: you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the
package
: and prevent accidental upgrading.
:
: Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to
: remember to
On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote:
On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote:
On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote:
This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that
of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package
everything should work as planned.
Thanks, I am beginning
Hi,
I've been trying to use apt-move to create a potato mirror and I
can't seem to get it to work.
When running apt-move update/get I get:
/usr/bin/apt-move: contrib: command not found
Updating Packages and override files...
Getting: distribution names
Creating Lists...
Error: makelist: No
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote:
SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main
I believe this is your problem, it should be
SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main
At least, that works for me...
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Hi,
Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
¨¨
Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
PGP key available at finger
After re-installing slink on a revamped upgraded
computer (new cpu/mb, bigger hd, new graphics card,
etc) I downloaded the latest wine sources (990923) and
tried to build. Wine built ok, but won't run. I get
the following message:
OBM_CreateBitmaps Xpm support not in the binary,
please install
Hello, I a french studient and I have also a TI 4000M notebook. But I have
pb, I have broken the links between the central and the screen. I have
several links with several colors and I must reconnect them to the screen.
And I don't have the order to make it. Could you just open the protection
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -, Pollywog wrote:
BTW the error seems to be Standards-Version: should be just Version:
Standards-Version specifies which version of the policy document the
package complies with. Version specifies the version of the package.
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Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse
to work with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just
got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't
gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to
2.2 to do that, and even windows 98e2 won't work with
my mb's usb hw!), but as a
Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kenneth Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work
Kenneth with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just got a new wheel
Kenneth mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work
Kenneth under usb yet
*- On 3 Oct, Kenneth Scharf wrote about wheel mice
Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse
to work with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just
got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't
gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to
2.2 to do that, and even
Mainly because my /dev/hda is a large drive (17 gigs) and I do not want to
risk replacing
my win98 MBR, etc, even though I have backups of everything, having to
reload it all would
be a royal pain, abd quite time consuming. Since BIOS supports booting
from any drive,
why should lilo not be
kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like
hostname.kernel-version-pkg-version, and you'll not have problems
(I haven't, anyway :)
One problem is how do I have several compilations of the same kernel version
installed? Right now, I have two 2.2.12 compilations installed, for
Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ?
To create FAT file systems, use mkdosfs from the dosfstools package.
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Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is
this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat
match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT
always f*%@(^ up my boot
What controls what appears when you 'w'? I just noticed that when I am in
X and I 'w' all my X terms are from unix:0 instead of plain old :0 like
they used to be. extace doesn't work with unix:0, it just likes :0. Is
there a non destructive way I can change it back to :0? Thanks.
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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
I've read the mailing list archives about the various Star Office
problems in potato, and something tells me that people are on the
wrong track. I am currently getting a Fatal Error about 10 seconds
after I load Star
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
Hi all:
I've compiled and installed pppd-2.3.10. Before that I had 2.3.5, that
came with Slink, but I uninstalled it.
Why do I see the following in my logs:
Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of
Jan == Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jan What struggle? XEmacs should compile on a typical Debian system,
Jan just using
What I meant by that was that I didn't have all the dev libraries installed
so, after installing a couple and trying make it would later bomb on some
dev
Stephen == Stephen R Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephen On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are
Stephen running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same
Stephen port. YMMV.
You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is this port 1024 specified
I recently installed Debian from an official set, slowly the things get
better. The last changes that I managed to do ( a whole adventure for a
windows newcomer!) left me with even a connection to the internet
through wvdial. My main problem is that I have very little memory (about
1.3 gig). Any
For a dual boot - why not go to a computer store and buy one of those things
where you can swap hard drives like disks? They are around 30$, then for
linux get a cheap 3 gig. you could run the same, but I would reccomend more
space for nt.
martin
Original Message Follows
From:
Salman Ahmed wrote:
Stephen == Stephen R Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephen On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are
Stephen running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same
Stephen port. YMMV.
You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is
I'm using the free (advertising-supported) Internet fax service at
www.efax.com. They assign you an arbitrary phone number, and faxes to
that address are received by faxmodem and mailed to you.
The file comes as a TIFF. I have several viewers that can read TIFFs
(xv, xloadimage) and a fine
does anybody know where can i find enlightenment 0.16 deb´s ? or cvs
deb´s as it used to be in e.themes.org ?
thank you ;)
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