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Linux-Announce Digest #84
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Sat Feb 3 06:50:40 1996
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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 96 03:13:21 EST
Linux-Announce Digest #84, Volume #2 Sat, 3 Feb 96 03:13:21 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: CRiSP Visual Text Editor - New ELF Release (Information)
COMMERCIAL: German Books in Print CD-ROM under Linux (Michael Koehne)
LOCAL: UK Linux FT (Mick Farmer)
LOCAL: Meeting of the Dutch Linux User Group Feb 3 CHANGE OF TIME AND PLACE (Rogier Posthuma)
GRAV 3.5 (image viewer for svgalib) (Michael Knigge)
ICAO Map 1.0 released (Martin Pauly)
BusLogic FlashPoint/BT-948 Upgrade Program ("Leonard N. Zubkoff")
New free DOS extender for cross-development from Linux (Bryan Ford)
LOCAL: Manchester LUG meets 20 Feb (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk)
Release of e2fsprogs version 1.02 ("Theodore Ts'o")
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From: info@vital.com (Information)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: CRiSP Visual Text Editor - New ELF Release
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 13:35:51 GMT
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We are pleased to announce the availability of CRiSP version 4.2.2
as a native ELF binary on the Linux platform.
INTRODUCTORY OFFER:
For a limited time [February 15th, 1996], users can purchase the
ELF version of CRiSP on Linux at a special promotional price of
$99.99 [regular price $149.99].
For users, not familiar with the tool:
WHAT MAKES CRiSP DIFFERENT:
===========================
CRiSP is a modern file editor suitable for programmers and
other professionals who need to edit files. It incorporates
most of the advanced concepts of vi, Emacs, BRIEF and various
Windows products whilst presenting the most intuitive user
interface possible.
It includes many advanced features which demanding
professionals have come to expect in an advanced development
environment, including customizable toolbar support, floating
help, syntax coloring, template editing, etc. This all leads to
an aesthetically pleasing user interface which requires no
learning at all to get started. All of this is configurable and
customizable.
CRiSP dynamic syntax coloring adds a new dimension to the
coding cycle. You see your code in a new light! Such trivial
issues as blocks of code accidentally being commented out are a
thing of the past because your eyes now tell you something is
wrong.
CRiSP is designed to avoid needing to learn
yet-another-keyboard layout. It is designed to be useful within
minutes of starting the software up, and its capabilities grow
with your use of the product. It does not get in the way of
what you want to do, and in fact offers facilities such as
entirely mouse-driven editing, to entirely keyboard-driven
editing. How you use CRiSP is up to you. There are no
limitations in the scope for which it can be used.
PRICING & ORDERING INFORMATION
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Offer is available to users having FTP access to the internet.
You can place the order by sending an EMAIL to orders@vital.com.
Please provide the following details.
Name
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
Email Address:
Credit Card#
Expiration Date:
You can also fax in your order at: +1 (214) 491-6909. This fax
number is completely secure.
For questions, please send an email to:
info@vital.com
Marketing & Pubilc Relations
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Vital Inc. |EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR CRiSP [GUI Text Editor]
4109 Candlewyck Drive | Information: info@vital.com
Plano, TX 75024. U.S.A | Orders: orders@vital.com
Ph: +1 (214) 491-6907 | Support: support@vital.com
Fax: +1 (214) 491-6909 | Mailing List: owner-crisp-list@uunet.uu.net
NEW WEB SITE: http://www.crisp.com or http://www.vital.com
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From: kraehe@bakunin.north.de (Michael Koehne)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: German Books in Print CD-ROM under Linux
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 13:35:44 GMT
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Hy folks,
we are happy to announce that we now have VLB (Verzeichniss
lieferbarer Buecher) also known as G-BIP (German Books in
Print) running under Linux.
At autum book fair in Frankfurt I went to the major vendors
of CD-ROM bibliographies and asked them for a linux port
of their dos based CD-ROM database programs.
My main argument was that a Linux port will help all unix
based book shops, as its very cheap the have a linux box
aside.
So we are now happy that VLB is running, VLZ (Verzeichniss
lieferbarer Zeitschriften) Bowker alias BIP (Books in Print)
will come rsn.
We hope that this will be a break thru argument for the
other vendors of CD-ROM bibliographies.
Many thanks to Peter Moser of Buchhandes Verein Germany
Bernd Stehle of /usr Software Entwicklung GmbH, and Gleen
Kessler of Reed Reference Publishing.
By Michael
PS : Missing-Link is german book importer currently developing under linux.
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Firma Missing Link - Bremen +49 4221 504348 kraehe@missing-link.de
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From: mick@picus.dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Mick Farmer)
Subject: LOCAL: UK Linux FT
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 13:36:09 GMT
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Dear Colleagues,
This message is for anyone using the CD version of Linux FT
that is on the front cover of the current issue of Computer
Shopper.
The system may run slow because of a configuration error.
The second line in the /etc/filecache.conf file mentions an
X11 R5 file system. This line should be removed.
Regards,
Mick
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From: Rogier Posthuma <posthuma@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: LOCAL: Meeting of the Dutch Linux User Group Feb 3 CHANGE OF TIME AND PLACE
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 13:35:58 GMT
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TWEEDE MEETING VAN DE NLLGG
TIJD en PLAATS zijn gewijzigd!!
De correcte tijd:
ZATERDAG 3 FEBRUARI 1996 OM 12:00 TE DEVENTER (Sat Feb 3 12:00:00 MET 1996)
Dus *NIET* om 11:00 maar 12:00.
De bijeenkomst was oorspronkelijk gepland in Wijkgebouw De Zandbank in de
Lange Zandstraat te Deventer. DIT IS VERPLAATST NAAR:
Wijkgebouw de Schalm, Dreef 1 7414EA Deventer.
Tel.nr. aldaar 05706- 670731.
Onze excuses voor het ongemak.
Op deze bijeenkomst zal een presentatie gehouden worden met als titel:
Netwerken met Linux
Iedere Linux-gebruiker is van harte welkom. De NLLGG hoopt op veel
enthousiastelingen te kunnen rekenen.
Kijk voor meer informatie op:
http://www.pi.net/~ljanssen/linuxgg/linuxgg.html
Groeten, Rogier Posthuma
Rogier Posthuma
|X| Rogier Posthuma ---------------------------- Jan Mayenstraat 13-D |X|
|X| posthuma@fwi.uva.nl -------------------------- 1056 SE AMSTERDAM |X|
|X| http://gene.fwi.uva.nl/~posthuma/ ---------------- (+31)206837446 |X|
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From: knick@cove.han.de (Michael Knigge)
Subject: GRAV 3.5 (image viewer for svgalib)
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:27:53 GMT
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| GRAV 3.5 (C) Michael Knigge |
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I've uploaded the fourth public Release of my Graphic-Viewer GRAV to
sunsite.unc.edu GRAV runs at the Linux Console (NOT X11!!!!). It uses a
nice (think so) User Interface to select the images you want to look at.
GRAV supports many popular formats of graphics: GIF, PCX, LBM, IFF, PPM
PBM, BMP, JPEG, PNG and many many other....
To get GRAV running you must have installed at least NCurses 1.8 and
SVGALIB 0.98. Newer releases would be better of course ;-) But beware
that there are some bugs in ncurses versions > 1.8.7 and < 1.9.1a and
GRAV will probably not run with these versions of ncurses. And for the
new JPEG-Support you need the JPEGLIB >= 5.0 from the IJG!
There are no really "new" features, but I think GRAV now looks a little
bit nicer at some points, I fixed many bugs and I've included the full
source code of all used libraries - so all you ELF users can now use
GRAV, too (only the JPEGLIB isn't in the tar-archive).
Sometimes GRAV can't handle PING-Images correctly. Please eMail your
Ping-Images to me if you have problems with them. Especially I need some
Truecolor Ping-Images for testing!
So, watch out for the files grav-3.5.tar.gz and grav-3.5.lsm! Please send
any suggestions, comments and cakes ;-) to knick@cove.han.de
For the next version of GRAV I plan
o print images
o convert images to other formats
o display images in a X-Window if running under X
And please excuse my poor english. I've left school some years behind me ;-)
Bye
Michael
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From: Martin Pauly <pauly@ventus.oih.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: ICAO Map 1.0 released
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:28:01 GMT
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**************************
* ICAO Map version 1.0 *
**************************
What is ICAO Map?
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ICAO Map is an interactive program running under X11/Motif. Its
input is a so called "world file", which is an ASCII file
containing descriptions of objects such as airports, roads,
towns, radio beacons and the like. ICAO Map will use either
Lambert or Mercator projection to generate a map from this
world file, either on your screen or as PostScript output.
ICAO Map allows you to interactively work with the map on the
screen, i.e. scroll it, use a rubber line to measure distances
and tracks etc. Additional features are available for both
motorized flights and soaring.
Version 1.0 is the most recent version
that has been released. Though ICAO Map is copyrighted software,
it may be copied and used free of charge. See the
licencing information in the ICAO Map manual.
ICAO Map has been reported to compile (with minor
changes in some cases) on Linux,
Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX and on SGI systems.
What is new in version 1.0?
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* display of logged flights
* evaluation of climbing
* barogram display
* 3 dimensional airspace structure
* selectable units for altitudes and distances
* user configuration file
* multiple world files can be loaded
* GPS simulator (produces NMEA protocol output)
* lot's of tiny details improve
See also: http://www.oih.rwth-aachen.de/icao.html
Where can I find it?
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ftp: ventus.oih.rwth-aachen.de,
/icao/icao-1.0
What you'll find is:
icao-README this file
icao-data.tgz German data base and sample flight logs
icao-doc.tgz Postscript manual
icao-src.tgz full source code and Makefile
For Linux, there are also binaries available.
You will only need ONE of the following files:
linux-binaries/
icao-a.out-static.gz old a.out format, with Motif
icao-a.out.gz old a.out format, requires Motif
icao-elf-static.gz new ELF format, with Motif
icao-elf.gz new ELF format, requires Motif
Enjoy the program!
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Martin Pauly ___
Ruetscher Strasse 175/910 !
52072 Aachen ---------(*)---------
Voice: 49-241-159542
49-172-2183078 (GSM)
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From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
Subject: BusLogic FlashPoint/BT-948 Upgrade Program
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:28:05 GMT
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Ever since its introduction last October, the BusLogic FlashPoint LT has
been problematic for members of the Linux community, in that no Linux
drivers have been available for this new Ultra SCSI product. Despite it's
officially being positioned as a desktop workstation product, and not being
particularly well suited for a high performance multitasking operating
system like Linux, the FlashPoint LT has been touted by computer system
vendors as the latest thing, and has been sold even on many of their high
end systems, to the exclusion of the older MultiMaster products. This has
caused grief for many people who inadvertently purchased a system expecting
that all BusLogic SCSI Host Adapters were supported by Linux, only to
discover that the FlashPoint was not supported and would not be for quite
some time, if ever.
After this problem was identified, BusLogic contacted its major OEM
customers to make sure the BT-946C/956C MultiMaster cards would still be
made available, and that Linux users who mistakenly ordered systems with
the FlashPoint would be able to upgrade to the BT-946C. While this helped
many purchasers of new systems, it was only a partial solution to the
overall problem of FlashPoint support for Linux users. It did nothing to
assist the people who initially purchased a FlashPoint for a supported
operating system and then later decided to run Linux, or those who had
ended up with a FlashPoint LT, believing it was supported, and were unable
to return it.
In the middle of December, I asked to meet with BusLogic's senior
management to discuss the issues related to Linux and free software support
for the FlashPoint. Rumors of varying accuracy had been circulating
publicly about BusLogic's attitude toward the Linux community, and I felt
it was best that these issues be addressed directly. I sent an email
message after 11pm one evening, and the meeting took place the next
afternoon. Unfortunately, corporate wheels sometimes grind slowly,
especially when a company is being acquired, and so it's taken until now
before the details were completely determined and a public statement could
be made.
BusLogic is not prepared at this time to release the information necessary
for third parties to write drivers for the FlashPoint. The only existing
FlashPoint drivers have been written directly by BusLogic Engineering, and
there is no FlashPoint documentation sufficiently detailed to allow outside
developers to write a driver without substantial assistance. While there
are people at BusLogic who would rather not release the details of the
FlashPoint architecture at all, that debate has not yet been settled either
way. In any event, even if documentation were available today it would
take quite a while for a usable driver to be written, especially since I'm
not convinced that the effort required would be worthwhile.
However, BusLogic does remain committed to providing a high performance
SCSI solution for the Linux community, and does not want to see anyone left
unable to run Linux because they have a Flashpoint LT. Therefore, BusLogic
has put in place a direct upgrade program to allow any Linux user worldwide
to trade in their FlashPoint LT for the new BT-948 MultiMaster PCI Ultra
SCSI Host Adapter. The BT-948 is the Ultra SCSI successor to the BT-946C
and has all the best features of both the BT-946C and FlashPoint LT,
including smart termination and a flash PROM for easy firmware updates, and
is of course compatible with the present Linux driver. The price for this
upgrade has been set at US $45, and the upgrade program will be
administered through BusLogic Technical Support, which can be reached by
electronic mail at techsup@buslogic.com, by Voice at +1 408 654-0760, or by
FAX at +1 408 492-1542.
I was a beta test site for the BT-948 and versions 1.2.1 and 1.3.1 of my
BusLogic driver already include latent support for the BT-948. Additional
cosmetic support for the Ultra SCSI MultiMaster cards will be added in a
subsequent release. As a result of this cooperative testing process,
several firmware bugs were found and corrected (make sure you have firmware
version 5.04B or later). My heavily loaded Linux test system provided an
ideal environment for testing error recovery processes that are much more
rarely exercised in production systems, but are crucial to overall system
stability. It was especially convenient being able to work directly with
their firmware engineer in demonstrating the problems under control of the
firmware debugging environment; things sure have come a long way since the
last time I worked on firmware for an embedded system. I am presently
working on some performance testing and expect to have some data to report
in the not too distant future.
BusLogic asked me to send this announcement since a large percentage of the
questions regarding support for the FlashPoint have either been sent to me
directly via email, or have appeared in the Linux newsgroups in which I
participate. To summarize, BusLogic is offering Linux users an upgrade
from the unsupported FlashPoint LT (BT-930) to the supported BT-948 for US
$45. Contact BusLogic Technical Support at techsup@buslogic.com or +1 408
654-0760 to take advantage of their offer.
Leonard
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From: baford@cs.utah.edu (Bryan Ford)
Subject: New free DOS extender for cross-development from Linux
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:28:14 GMT
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MOSS: a new DOS Extender for cross-development from Linux
Written by Bryan Ford of Sleepless Software
and the Computer Systems Laboratory at the University of Utah
Available from: ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/moss
[Please redistribute this announcement to anyone who might be interested.]
MOSS is a new DOS extender designed especially for cross-development
of DOS applications from Linux or other Unix-like operating systems.
It has a number of major features:
* Can be used royalty-free in commercial and non-commercial products.
* Full support for DPMI, VCPI, XMS, and "raw" DOS modes.
* Supports up to 2GB of virtual and physical memory.
* Demand-loading of executables for quick startup times.
* Supports POSIX low-level file I/O as well as ANSI C I/O.
* Processor exceptions can be delivered as POSIX signals.
* Hardware interrupts can be delivered as POSIX.1b real-time queued
signals (except under DPMI).
* Traditional-DOS-extender-like interrupt revectoring also available
in all environments.
* Supports the POSIX.1b memory locking API ({\tt mlock} et al).
* Remote source-level debugging over a serial line using GDB.
* Full cross-development from Linux and other Unix-compatible OS's.
* Uses i386 ELF object files and executables.
* Allows a program {\em and} any associated data files
to be attached to MOSS, forming one big DOS executable.
* Written almost entirely in easy-to-modify C code.
* Can be compiled _completely_ using the freely-available GNU
development tools (i.e. doesn't require a commercial
compiler/assembler to handle the 16-bit x86 code).
MOSS is a new DOS extender primarily targetted for people who must write
DOS programs for some reason or another, but want to have as little to do
with DOS as possible. (Like us, for example.) To this end, MOSS is
primarily intended for cross-development from "real" OS's rather than for
native development under DOS. MOSS's remote source-level debugging support
makes it extremely convenient to write DOS programs if you have a DOS test
machine sitting next to a Un*x-compatible development machine.
Furthermore, MOSS's API attempts to hide much of the ugliness of DOS under
a Un*x/POSIX veneer, for example by providing POSIX-like file I/O, POSIX
signals for intercepting processor exceptions and hardware interrupts,
POSIX mmap() for mapping device memory such as the video buffer, etc.
Note that MOSS is still at beta-test level: it is still missing a number of
highly desirable features, contains a few horrible kludges, and no doubt
has a few bugs... As such, NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, EVER, etc.
etc. etc. However, we have found MOSS to be quite usable for our purposes
and reasonably robust and compatible, so we decided to release it to the
public at this stage even though it is still incomplete.
Once again, MOSS is available from `ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/moss'. The
file `moss-0.90-bin-linux.tar.gz' contains pre-compiled cross-compiler
tools that run on Linux, as well as a pre-built copy of MOSS itself. The
file `moss-0.90-bin-freebsd.tar.gz' contains the corresponding pre-compiled
binaries for FreeBSD. The file `moss-0.90.tar.gz' contains the sources and
further documentation. (The documentation is also available in separate
files in this directory.)
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Bryan Ford baford@cs.utah.edu University of Utah, CSS
`finger baford@schirf.cs.utah.edu' for PGP key and other info.
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From: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Subject: LOCAL: Manchester LUG meets 20 Feb
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:28:18 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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There will be a meeting of the Manchester area Linux User Group
on Tuesday 20 February at 19:00 in the Computer Building at
the University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13.
Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
D.Clark@man.ac.uk
John@mcc.ac.uk
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Release of e2fsprogs version 1.02
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 02:28:28 GMT
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I am happy to announce the release of e2fsprogs version 1.02. It's
mostly a minor bugfix release with a new enhancements. The main reason
for making this release is to because of a namespace conflict with the
include files with recent 1.3 kernels. Version 1.02 has changes that
allow it to be compiled these latest 1.3 kernels.
The release notes and LSM entry for this package follow below. Note
that I am still seeing bug reports from people who are still using
version 0.5b and 0.5c of this package. Furthermore, there are some
distributions which are still using these older versiopns. There are
severe bugs with these versions in how they handle certain types of
filesystem corruptions where e2fsck tries to relocate the inode or block
bitmaps, or the inode table. People who are using older versions are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of e2fsprogs.
Distribution maintainers are likewise strongly encouraged to include
this version of e2fsprogs in their release.
- Ted
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Title: EXT2 Filesystem utilities
Version: 1.02
Entered-date: 01FEB96
Description: The filesystem utilities for the EXT2 filesystem, including
e2fsck, mke2fs, dumpe2fs, fsck, and others.
Keywords: utilities, fsck, filesystem, Ext2fs
Author: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)
Maintained-by: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)
Primary-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs
352kB e2fsprogs-1.01.tar.gz
160kB e2fsprogs-1.01-dllbin.tar.gz
200kB e2fsprogs-1.01-elfbin.tar.gz
1kB e2fsprogs-1.02.lsm
Alternate-site:
Platforms: linux 1.2.x/1.3.x,
Copying-policy: GPL
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E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)
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Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels.
Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are
on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is
guaranteed to be non-contiguous.
In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole
disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a
whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk
as a filesytem.
Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking
partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in
the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same
disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life.
Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe.
Minor compilation fixes:
* Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs.
* Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on.
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