Alpine also does this; I just tried and it prompts you whether or not you'd
like to reply using the reply address.
The problem is that using a textmode client makes it rather hard to be
efficient with speech only under OS X. It works reasonably well, but not well
enough to replace a native GUI
OK, so we now know that you do, in fact, only have about 8GB of unpartitioned
space. Let's resize this to 70% of the disk, leaving 30% for your
testing--that would be about 20GB. Adjust as required. You'd type this, and
enter your password (hope you've got that backup):
sudo diskutil resizeVo
I've got ProblemReporter logging to notification centre and almost every day
that I look VoiceOver has crashed several times. It seems to be particularly
bad when opening PDF files on the web or on pages where there's a lot of script
and dynamic content.
No, of course it's not shallow. Absolu
I'm not sure why DU is forcing such a small value. You ought to be able to
specify any size up to a maximum for each partition such that they all occupy
all of the space of the entire disk. This is really where DU just falls down,
as far as VO support is concerned.
You're correct that about 5
The command you now need is:
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 45G JHFS+ Testing 0
The only time I consider Disk Utility to be reliable with VoiceOver is when
partitioning from scratch; then it's usually more convenient to use DU instead
of the CLI. But ultimately you can do more with the disk
Boot the Mavericks installer from external media or the network, and use Disk
Utility to repartition your internal disk with a partition scheme of GUID, with
one partition, Mac OS Extended Journaled, with the maximum size (default).
If you need specific help, we can probably go through it all ag
I quit using flip4mac when they started watermarking anything played through
the Quicktime component for free users. Sod that; use ffmpeg instead (requires
command-line foo).
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Let's keep this as simple as possible, eh? No command line required at this
time. All data on the startup disk will be spifflicated.
Disk Utility is in the installer. All you have to do is get the installer
running somehow.
Boot from the network by pressing Command+Option+R at the chime. Yo
Ffmpeg is a tool that you obtain and run using the command line. Indeed, I
well expect that many people will find this difficult, so unless you want to do
a bit of learning, I'd suggest using tools in Windows to convert your Windows
Media files into some other format, like WAV or MP3, that your
Flash content, sadly, is known not to be accessible on OS X.
Did you get anything from the video? Most installation videos really don't
tell you anything you couldn't figure out by just reading the manual or
following the instructions. :)
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Remember that any unallocated space after the partition is available for use.
Even if you couldn't shrink from 51G to 45G with the available 10G, which even
by my lamentable arithmetical powers would seem to be possible with 4G left
over, then you should still have sufficient space on the whole
It's not updating that's the problem though, it's getting the installation to
even boot.
As far as I can see there are two options: use InstaDMG to build an installed
image with 10.6.6 or later already applied, or else use another Mac and target
disk mode to install and patch it that way. In b
If it's just the prompt asking you if you're sure you want to continue, just
choose to do so.
If the application is already in your Applications folder (do check for
something called "Install OS X Mavericks") then you've got it, and just need to
build your USB media.
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Get to the Virtual Machine Library by pressing Command+Shift+L. Then find the
table, interact with it, find your machine, and hit the delete key. Answer to
move it to the Trash, and then empty it (after checking it out first).
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You still have the Control Panel applet? I don't, and reports around the
Interwebs seem to confirm that VMWare dropped them. But if you've got them,
I'd hang on to them! All I have now is the system tray icon (which can be
disabled, thankfully) which simply displays an About box, and that's i
iCloud spam filtering is very flaky unless you use the web interface a lot,
which we don't for obvious reasons.
My advice: turn off "junk mail" filtering altogether in Mail, do check your
Junk folder from time to time, and explicitly move messages between your Junk
and other folders, as appropr
If junk mail filtering is off in Mail itself, in Preferences, then any mail you
see moved into Junk is owing to iCloud, not Mail. That's when you need to move
the emails.
To be honest, if I had the option, I'd turn off filtering completely. One
definite disadvantage of not running your own em
Hi all,
On the web, VoiceOver in Mavericks gets stuck in menus. For example, try the
menus at freedomscientific.com. Once in a menu, VO keys stop working to
navigate, and the only way to move is using the tab key. I have no idea why or
how this is, but it's bloody annoying! If this is a fea
It was true in late 2013, too. The high-end costs have gone up (surprise!)
even as the low-end costs come further down (what a relief!). Nice to see
Apple listening to market demands. So, unless you really need a very slight
increase in processor speed, last year's investment is arguably bett
You really want to see all that stuff? Type this into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
killall Finder
When you're finished, repeat the above, but put "NO" in place of "YES".
You will be shown all files marked as invisible, and all dot-files.
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Interesting, I do get totally stuck at the far end of the menu.
What about if you press return to open the menu so that you are keyboard
interacting with it using cursor keys, do you lose all VO navigation then?
You'll have to restart VO to get it back, after closing the window, if you try
tha
I'd love to discuss test builds with people who are in to this; the real
question is how to identify those who have the beta, so we can do that.
Bloody Apple and their secrecy nonsense.
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Yes, mouse tracking is different. However, if you turn cursor tracking off,
mouse tracking is also off because the VO cursor doesn't move the focus with
it, so this is how to temporarily disable the effects of mouse tracking when
it's required.
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In my personal experience, the best option is to build yourself a Linux virtual
machine with BRLTTY on it, and then connect that VM to your braille display.
The primary downside to that is that it's not normally very easy to switch
between one or the other, and you have to have a USB interface
Yep, USB serial will work, because it's just USB that VMWare can pass through;
normally though this means the only way to get braille back is to disconnect
it, and unless you're using a non-serial device that will hotplug to relaunch
BRLTTY this simply can't work. Check the BRLTTY docs for all
VoiceOver now announces when the address bar is a "Secure address" when you
focus it. Interact with it, and go to the very end of the URL, and you will
find the lock if it is present which will indicate secure or EV. Press it, and
you are given some more details, and the option of expanding th
I don't know about graphical wrappers for it, but the reference implementation
compiled for OS X is available from here:
http://www.opus-codec.org/downloads/
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It's a bit late for that, I'm afraid. To get that arrangement, you'll have to
forgo BootCamp Assistant (you don't actually need it, you know, it's just a
convenience) and reinstall Windows, because your NTFS partition can't be
(easily) resized. If you don't want to touch Windows now it's insta
When you say you took TC out of the loop, what exactly did it mean? Is it the
wireless performance that's the trouble, or is it also a router? If it's a
router, are you using plain IP routing, with NAT, or PPPoE with NAT? What did
you connect to get on the Internet, if not your TC?
The firmw
There are multiple factors.
When you connected your husband's PC to the TC, was it using Ethernet (a cable)
or wireless?
If Ethernet, your options for making it go faster are limited, and Apple should
probably get involved. If wireless, you could try changing the channel,
rebooting the Time C
If you can give up space on your Mac partition, then yes, you can shrink your
existing Mac partition and make room for your new partition if you want to do
that. You should be careful not to touch your Windows partition.
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No idea, sorry. I'm not going to look at Windows again until Windows 9. Also,
I think you'll probably find your life a bit easier if you just bought stuff
instead of cracking it. :)
Cheers,
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In that case, you won't mind the loss of JAWS too much. :)
As for me, well, I use OS X most of the time now, but the deteriorating of
functionality is making me think unkind thoughts about switching full time back
to Windows, at least on my workhorse desktop. OS X 10.10 looks very promising,
b
It's been available for the last four years, and Skype themselves were partly
responsible for pushing it through the IETF. I have no idea why it isn't part
of Skype yet. FaceTime audio uses AAC Voice, and LTE uses AMR-WB; both have
royalties associated with them. Yet, for some reason, Opus is
If you delete a partition that doesn't have Mavericks on it, and leave behind
the one that does, then yes you can boot into the one with Mavericks on it.
I'm surprised this isn't entirely possible while you're booted into Mavericks.
What are you trying to do, anyway? Get rid of Yosemite? Get
If it's from a format supported by QuickTime, then the avconvert tool should
help you. Otherwise, ffmpeg.
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Yes, that's the adaptor you're looking for. Simply plug the adaptor into your
MacBook Air, and an Ethernet cable from the other end of the adaptor to your
cable modem. Often, the default settings will just work, using DHCP.
I don't see any problem with connecting directly to the Internet, as l
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commands were caught. Evidently not.
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I would suggest though, that as a general matter, you should use a Fit-Headless
or other similar device with Mac Minis, so the operating system can grind on
the GPU; without it, the performance will be unimpressive, to say the least of
it.
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Fit-Headless is a cute little device that plugs into your Mac Mini's (or any
other) HDMI port, and emulates a connected monitor. OS X likes it very much
when it can use GPU features for rendering, and the GPU is only available while
the graphics card is connected to a monitor. On a Mac Mini, t
If closing the window was the very last thing you did, i.e. you haven't typed
any further text or navigated elsewhere, then press Command+Z to "Undo close
tab".
HTH.
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Yes, it should, if the TV is on and you've got it receiving the Mini's signal.
You may have to select the right port on your TV if you have a choice of
selectable video sources, but this is TV-specific. Long and short: if people
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On the contrary, I'd love to see Thunderbird rendered accessible on OS X. Using
virtualisation for daily tasks is silly and is making me uncomfortable. This,
of course, is the downside to voluntary accessibility.
The only half-witted email client that's any good for accessibility for OS X is
Ma
I'm just not happy with VoiceOver's braille support for a variety of reasons
which I've restated many times on here. It's behind even the other graphical
screen readers.
But you don't have to take my word for it, just perform this simple test: turn
speech off. Can you manage with braille only?
This can be done, yes, but it's a bit tougher because the tool that Mavericks
supplies for creating media only itself runs on Mavericks, rather unhelpfully.
In summary, what you must do is restore the base system disk image,
BaseSystem.dmg, onto your freshly-formatted USB stick, and then copy ov
If you don't mind losing all your Time Machine history for now, simply reformat
your target disk using Disk Utility. Any problem with the disk will then be
solved and Time Machine should resume. Yes, it's inconvenient, but at least
you haven't lost any current data.
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The FaceTime from the Mac App Store is for Snow Leopard users; don't buy it.
You need to be aware that FaceTime works a little differently from other apps
on the Mac, in that it's very iOS-like; you don't open or close dialogs.
Therefore, the top button is usually a back button, and you mustn't
With some little difficulty. Open iBooks on your Mac, and then use the File,
Add to Library option to find and import your book. Then use iTunes to sync it
across.
One year of iBooks inaccessibility, and counting. It makes me very annoyed.
The reason I don't use Dropbox or whatever is that y
To be honest, the best advice we can give you is to switch to iCloud. No, this
is not a joke, sadly.
You can fiddle with Gmail to make it work, but the Mavericks-Gmail combination
is not at all pleasant.
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I don't know what or why Apple made changes to the IMAP behaviour since
Mountain Lion. I am positive that Gmail IMAP is buggy and slow, irrespective
of client, but it is true that if you bugger about long and hard enough,
specially when you're on a slow connection and want to avoid the "All Mai
When it's muted. It can't be completely off.
Different displays will be different for convenient access from the display
itself, but you can still (I would argue, inconveniently) access VoiceOver from
the keyboard while using braille, no matter the display. Ditto for the
trackpad, if you have
Hmmm. I don't fail to acknowledge, I just don't think it's a very good excuse.
:)
I do understand what you're saying, and I'm happy in my own way with my chosen
path for all the reasons many listers on here can share, but braille support
has been here since Snow Leopard. It has not been subst
Yep, the reason for that you can't use Disk Utility to repartition is that it
doesn't yet support manipulating CoreStorage groups, which is what
FileVault-encrypted volumes and Fusion Drives are made from. So if you have
one of these, you have to drop to the command line to delete the CoreStora
I wouldn't think ClamAV could scan your email in any useful way anyway. It's
stored by your ISP, so they should be the one scanning for you. Should they
not be doing this, but you are using POP3, then you could try scanning your
Library folder, which would contain your email data, although I'd
Time Machine runs verifications every so often, to make sure your backups are
sound. I can assure you that even when I'm backed up to a Time Capsule, I
occasionally have to erase the disk and start again. Rather that than not have
a current backup. I know it's annoying. I'd also advise you t
> Even though it would be an excellent fit, the answer is no, sorry.
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> uTorrent is the same as micro Torrent.
The only other client I know about that's reasonably accessible is
Transmission. You could give it a try.
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FWIW, Sophos AV for Mac is also free and mostly accessible. Of course, it has
a commercial counterpart in the Windows world, and Sophos are eager that you
should be dependent on them. I used it with success to clear up my virus
collection from my Windows days.
My personal recommendation is no
Aha! Thanks Jonathan, I thought that performance bug with activities was just
me, but evidently not. Yes, very annoying; put a complete damper on Nuance for
me, since I have Safari automatically initiate my web activity, and of course
Safari is almost always open which means simply pressing Vo
Just to double check: you did launch a title before navigating using the menu?
You presumably already know that you can't navigate to a title until you're
past the root and title menus, so slap enter a couple of times first and try
again.
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Ah, yes. Gregg Keizer writing for Computerworld and the disgraceful end of
Apple as we know it. If it bleeds, it reads, eh? But I'll believe it when I
see it.
FWIW, my first plastic Mac will likely fall due to Apple's obsolescence, in
which case it should run either Snow Leopard or Windows 7
At the moment, Apple supports Lion, which is two versions back. But Lion is
the last version of OS X for many Macs, just as Snow Leopard was previously.
In other words, it seems to have shifted from supporting one version prior to
two versions. Perhaps that's intentional, perhaps not. Perhap
If your Mac was made in 2007 or later and has a discrete GPU, you ought to be
alright. It's the poor sods with Intel GMA950 who are in real trouble, because
64-bit drivers were never made for it; that means that Lion, which although it
was a 64-bit OS could still start a 32-bit kernel, was the
Mobience wants people to see this message. I've forwarded it along purely in
the hope that it will reduce their need to spam further victims, which no
matter how well intended, is irresponsible. And of course, listers here may
actually have a use for one of these.
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Yeah, it would. But at least it would be relevant spamming, since I already
know what RiVO is. :)
I don't like seeing legit companies resort to spamming. It always leaves a
bitter taste. Respect email solitude, I say. But yes, they're real.
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+1 for Rumola. First class service. Yes it's paid, and I really, really don't
want to know what other activities I might be sponsoring, but it brings us back
to our rightful place on the web.
You don't need Firefox; all the extensions are here on Safari, too: Adblock,
Daring Fireball with Com
Yes. I wish I could have warned you. I urge you to get a Dongle from Freedom
Scientific (if you can) in order to tide over these sorts of happenings, which
are indeed regrettably unexpected, and unacceptable.
I would argue for virtualisation, except that the same thing happens in virtual
mach
Quite. This should go some way to explaining why every device on my network
that can be connected using Ethernet, is connected using Ethernet; in practice
this means only the iOS devices are not. I had to get a hole drilled through
the walls, feed cat5e cable through, and installed gigabit swi
Mmm, that's great in theory, but Windows isn't built for access through APIs in
the same way that OS X and Linux are yet, so you inevitably need one of the
commercial screen readers, for some purpose. So you end up installing the one
screen reader that does everything, either JAWS or Window-Eye
The dongle must be authorised for a particular version of JAWS. You can plug
it in and use the Dongle Viewer tool that comes with JAWS to see what version
your dongles authorise now. If you are in need of an update file for your
dongle, contact FS for the file and give them the serial numbers;
Mail.app supports neither delivery status notifications (delivery receipts) nor
disposition notifications (read receipts). Sorry.
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The problem with adding headers and running scripts in response to headers is
that it's not very flexible. You can't respond on a message-by-message basis
to requests, and if you happen to have multiple accounts, you can't send out a
request from the correct one. This point is important, since
At the risk of boiling this over, to be honest I don't believe Mail.app is a
very competent email client. It's really Outlook Express for the Mac. Once
upon a time Apple may have cared--signs of Eudora were written all over it--but
they don't now; for them, the metaphor of email is shattered b
This may appear obvious, but be aware that when you start a note to a person by
simply selecting an email address, you are not replying, even if you copy or
construct an appropriate subject line. Therefore extract the address from the
headers (select the address character and then do VO space a
Unfortunately, there's no direct way to selectively expunge mail from a mailbox
without affecting other mail, that I can see; it's all or nothing. However, if
under Preferences, Accounts, your account, Mailbox Behaviours, you choose not
to move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox, you could t
If you select the Time Machine menu item, it will give you a more complete
explanation. Normally though it just means that your disk has been made
inaccessible for some reason; either it's not connected, or if it's on the
network, it has become disconnected from your network (or your computer h
This is VMWare so the high price shouldn't really be much of a surprise to
anyone, least of all Mac users. :)
Anybody who now has it tell me what the state of serial port emulation is? Let
me guess: you only have the option of writing to a disk file, yes?
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> Yeah, I got that, too. It's nothing to worry about--just try it again, and
> it should go through. I couldn't use PayPal, so I moved over to Visa, and it
> worked.
Reasons to get Pro: encryption, advanced networking, a few more CPU control
features, Player Plus key for redistributing you
Yeah, but even if you don't actually run OS X Server, the Server Mini is the
only one with two identical SSDs inside. That's the ideal machine for using
either OS X or bootcamped/virtualised Windows in simultaneously. It works very
well, though I'm now using mine for RAID 0 Linux. :)
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The short answer here is that OS X is an excellent platform for running
services, but really lousy for graphical user interfaces for said services.
This ought to be regarded for the failure that it is by some Mac users, but
seemingly isn't, for some reason ...
Depending on your needs, and if n
Yes, Sophos works mostly well. I don't need it anymore since I last swept my
data with it, but for on-demand scans it's fine.
But yes, generally I don't think AV is needed for Mac. More than anything,
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I'm fairly sure this is a shot in the dark at this point, but I'm asking just
in case someone knows something I don't ...
I've been trying in vain to export my books from iBooks in Mavericks, with the
objective of importing them into iTunes running on an installation using
Mountain Lion. From
Indeed. You'd think Apple would know how to get this right by now, wouldn't
you?
I went back to BBC's production of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, having quit
shortly after hearing the translator, and just listened to the address the
following morning. Much better. Also annoying, as I'd ca
Apple invented and use HTTP live streaming; they only need to offload one copy
of the chunks from their origin server to each global edge node. That load
could easily have been tested ahead of time, IMO, so I'm not sure I buy this
bit about the Internet not being ready for an Apple live event.
Of course, Time Machine will perform local backups, whether to a USB disk or
Time Capsule or to another Mac running Server. Those are good to have, even if
you use remote cloud backups, too.
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You can't get to the contents in iBooks, so this can't work, but even if it did
it would be too tedious and produce inadequate copies. But thanks for the
interesting suggestion anyway.
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My iCloud storage is now 200 GB a year at £5 less the monthly price, and I got
a refund, too. It was previously 75 GB. It turned out that I couldn't make
use of it, but then, it turns out to have been a good choice to buy it when I
did. :)
I hope you're all chomping at your bits for the iPhon
You can also use Arq from Haystack Software to back up to various places,
including Amazon S3/Glacier and Google Drive. Depending on your needs this is
free or very, very cost-effective. It's 100% accessible.
http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/index.php
But I thought the OP said he wasn't loo
FWIW, I do think that cloud backups are awesome, but you should be careful not
to give up control either. Remember, "The cloud" is code for "Someone else's
computer". It is true that off-site backups protect you from local disaster,
but it is probably also true that such disasters are given mu
Time Capsule is an excellent choice. In addition to being a network backup
target, it's also an 802.11AC Wi-Fi base station and router. So it can make
your network go faster and more reliably, too. :)
Back To My Mac is actually supported by Time Capsule, too, which means that if
you shared an
Unfortunately, there's no ability to partition the internal disk of Time
Capsule. You could partition an external disk and connect it, but for the
internal disk the only real option is to take the thing apart and partition the
disk using a Mac. You can set up multiple users, but that doesn't p
I wouldn't use Match as a backup, first because your lossless rips will all be
downgraded to 256 KB AAC, and second because not all tracks are eligible. It
is an excellent solution, but for conserving space on your iOS device more than
anything, IMO. My iPad has Match off; my iPod and iPhone h
If security is set to a simple format, as is the default, then the filesystem
header and partition tables will be laid out, and this takes almost no time
whatsoever. If you set security level to anything above 0%, though, you can
expect to wait a good while as the entire disk is written over.
I am pursuing a policy of magnetic medium elimination, though I accept it as an
inevitable in certain places. Indeed, speed and robustness are key reasons to
move to SSDs, but backup drives can't realistically be expected to be SSD, and
of course if you have older machines with hard disks in th
I downloaded all the images for all the devices (49 GB) in advance precisely to
avoid this. For some reason, Apple never has sufficient capacity on launch
day. It's not helped by the fact that you need to contact Apple to verify
signatures even if you have the software images.
I'm not going t
Nothing noteworthy; just security and bugfixes.
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All right. Yes, it's all very wonderful
The question is: why? Why have all the other apps failed? What's the magic
sauce? You know me--well, you do now, anyway--that I'm not going to be happy
unless I've established that £69 was worth paying. I'm still not quite
convinced that it is, yet.
Well, I can certainly agree that assistive isn't always equal to overpriced,
and indeed I have owned the flatbed and now own the camera edition Sara, both
of which have worked quite well, and with mainstream OCR software and flatbed
scanners, really quite excellently. Anything to lower the cost
You can open your Applications folder and locate the App Store download. But
to be honest, if the page in the store says you're downloading, then you're
downloading; check it on the Purchases tab.
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Well, I was curious, so I looked at the landscape.
Anyone know anything about CyberDuck, Transmit, ExpanDrive or Forklift? Of
these, Forklift appears to push all the buttons (and solve all the problems,
and support all the providers).
Why does so much necessary Mac software have to be paid? *S
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