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November 2001 |
Psygnosis Lemmings 2 Unofficial Patch
Just did another patch. This time for Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis). It emulates
a routine needed by the copy-protection. Funny thing: If it isnt
supported, the copy protection tries it again, and again, and again ;-)
Now Lemmings 2 works PERFECTLY under OS/2 or eCS. Including Sound.
cu Kiewitz
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=LEMM2FIX
From: Martin Kiewitz martin@kiewitz.de
Lucas Arts Generic Patcher available
As I patched Indy 3 this morning, I discovered that the problem was a
real-buggy runtime library. Now I got it working on several Lucas Arts
titles (Monkey Island 1 and Indiana Jones 3, both VGA or Non-VGA). These
games work perfectly now, under OS/2 as well.
Please help me find more games, that needs to get patched and help
os2world increase the DOS-working games list under http://www.os2world.com/games
I would like to have someone help me debug DOS4GW programs, because I want
to fix Lucas Arts's Sam&Max, but I dont have a clue, how to debug it.
cu Kiewitz
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=LUCASFIX
From: Martin Kiewitz martin@kiewitz.de
OS/2 eZine October issue
http://www.os2ezine.com/
From The Editor
Robert Basler - Virtual PC for OS/2 is
Coming!
Reviews
Quakeworld for OS/2
Robert Basler has a great time fragging a
whack
of strangers.
DSK4PM
Dan Eicher looks at a diskette imaging tool.
Articles
My Weekend at Warpstock
Douglas Clark recounts his weekend in the
Great
White North.
An Interview with Andrew Bloo of
Scitech Software
Bill Armstrong sits down with the video
driver
folks.
JFS Cookbook
Pasha Shtemenko & Konstantin Okounkov
tell us everything we need to know about
JFS.
Using Multimedia Keyboards under
OS/2
Alex Samorukov shows us how to bring all the
extra keys on your keyboard to life.
ODBC on OS/2 Part 6
Douglas Clark looks at Sybase SQL Anywhere.
Into Java, Part 21
Simon Gronlund continues to improve the
world's
smallest web browser.
1016 kernels on IBM testcase FTP site
There's another new Warp4/MCP/eCS/WSeB/ACP kernel on IBM testcase as of
10/16/01. The documentation from the W4 kernel states
10/16: the 1015 os2ldr was broken on some CPUs
and also states:
10/16:
PJ28199 SES QUERYFILEINFO buffer pointer always -1
PJ28207 SES callgate hooks don't work
The previous (10/15/01) W4 kernel apparently disable my FPU on my AMD
Athlon but this is now fixed. If you installed the 1015 kernel and some
programs are running much slower (I noticed the problem in PMView) I
advise to upgrade to the 1016 kernel.
Of course these kernels are TESTCASE releases and are not supported by
anyone including IBM.
FTP to: testcase.boulder.ibm.com
CD to: /ps/fromibm/os2
Or visit ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2
Sincerely,
---------------
Don "Freiheit" Eitner
[Moderator's note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM
unless they tell you to use them. Please send any followup to
comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. Also note that files are only on IBM's
testcase for 2-3 days, so if you want to try these get them now. These
files have been there for 2 days now, so they will probably be gone by
tomorrow or Monday. Make certain you back up any files replaced and don't
try these on a production system. You have been warned. ]
VOICE to exhibit at Warpstock Europe 2001
From: "Christian Hennecke" christian.hennecke@os2voice.org
The VOICE (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education) user group will
exhibit at the Warpstock Europe 2001 conference. Be sure to visit our
booth in the non-commercial exhibition area if you attend Warpstock Europe
this year. VOICE is dedicated to the promotion of OS/2 Warp and
eComStation to the general consumer through various activities as
providing current and factual information about OS/2 and eComStation
related products via the online magazine VOICE Newsletter and the VOICE
News mailing list, conducting IRC meetings, and sponsoring OS/2 and eCS
related promotion projects among providing many other services.
At the VOICE booth, you can get a CD with the complete Newsletter archive
or a special "Best of Newsletter" PRINTED issue. You'll be able to talk to
VOICE representatives about their organization, inquire into becoming a
member or re-new your membership, or just chat about OS/2 and eComStation!
To learn more about VOICE, visit our web site at
X-Commander 0.27
Michael Ijlin has released X-Commander 0.27
ftp://ftp.projects.os2.ru/x-commander/xc20_27b.zip
X-Commander is a powerfull textmode shell, designed to facilate a number
of operations with files, directories and archives under OS/2,
Windows'9x/NT, Windows'2000 operation systems.
Some features are:
- the common file and folder functions: view, edit, copy,
move and rename, create, delete;
- background file operations
- easy to use menu driven interface
- easy configurable options: internal file viewer and
text editor, panel view and file sorting modes;
- long file name support;
- plugin modules and commands: default plugins set
includes archive management plugin, network client,
process list, file splitter, but you may write your
own plugins;
- tunable configuration, color scheme customization,
files highlighting;
- clipboard functions;
- clock, nice screen saver;
- ability to view and edit multiple files in same session
(use Ctrl+Tab to switch between windows);
- file associations;
- and more!
Come to the Warpstock Europe 2001 Social Event
The "Social Event" promises to be one of the Warpstock Europe 2001
conference highlights and a perfect opportunity for attendees to relax
after two long days packed with presentations, lectures and software
demonstrations. Following the "Social Event", Warpstock Europe continues
on Sunday for a third and final day of nothing but sessions related to the
OS/2 Warp and eComStation operating systems.
As the "Social Event" starts at 8pm on November 3, it will be time to
party for everyone at Warpstock Europe! Two bands will be playing live
music throughout the night, so make sure you join us for a guaranteed fun
evening. It's a chance to meet old and new friends, enjoy good music, good
food and good drinks, including a large selection of the world famous
Belgian beers.
Thanks to Warpstock Europe sponsors Mensys, Hydrografix, the Dutch HCC and
Vesp-Soft, the Event Team has been able to keep the admission for the
"Social Event" at a low 300 BEF per person, which is less then 7.5 EUR,
food included.
For online registration and to buy your "Social Event" ticket, go to the
Mensys web site at http://shop.mensys.nl/catalogue/mns_WarpStockEurope2001.html On-site
registration will be available as well for those who don't want to use a
credit card to make on-line payments.
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at
the 'KH Limburg' College in Diepenbeek (Hasselt), Belgium. Warpstock
Europe is an annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2
and eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education,
providing information and support to everyone with an interest in these
operating systems or related technology. More information is available at
the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org
From: Luc Van Bogaert luc.vanbogaert@pandora.be
Important FIX: DFSee version 4.07 released
An unplanned but important update:
The problem (in 4.05 and 4.06) with multiple-disks showing the same
information in the part and map displays has been solved!
DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool
with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.
Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm
Version 4.07 updates and fixes:
- Fixed BUG with multiple physical disks showing same information
- Added
'-x' commandline switch, avoids read diskinfo at startup
- Added detection
for EBR-loop, read will terminate at 100 EBR's
- FIXBOOT for FAT and FAT32
(beta only, works on most partitions)
- Show DIR of available imagefiles
when IM parameter ends in '\'
- Minor update to DFSINFO.CMD reducing
number of warnings
Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get
support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.
But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee! The next
major changes for DFSee will be multiple UNDO/REDO, and a command to
copy/move partitions.
Regards, Jan van Wijk
From: Jan van Wijk jvw@fsys.demon.nl
Warpzilla (Mozilla VACPP Build) 0.9.5 re-released
From: Mike Kaply
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.5/mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.5.zip
OK 0.9.5 is up again.
And for all the inquisitive people, that was NOT the latest Java plugin,
it was actually a very old one, and that was not a Mozilla flash, it was
the same one you can download from Innotek.
Mike Kaply
IBM
[Moderator note: The 0.9.5 version was briefly pulled yesterday because it
was the non-optimized code and the package included some items not meant
for the freeware release.]
Golden Code Trace Suite now available
Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17, 2001 - Golden Code Development announces two
new products for the OS/2 market: Kernel Trace for OS/2 and Trace
Analyzer for Java. This rounds out the company's suite of tracing
software products, which also includes Network Trace for OS/2.
From: Eric Faulhaber http://www.goldencode.com
Business type presentations at Warpstock Europe 2001
Warpstock Europe 2001 features several business type presentations to
allow attending IT managers, system administrators and other IT
professionals a day off work, while still making the time very well spent
for their business.
Featured presentations on on Friday November 2, 2001 include sessions by
IBM'ers Oliver Stein and Oliver Mark about WorkSpace On-Demand Version 3,
by IBM'er Alain Rykaert about LAN Server Management Tools, by Innotek's
Achim Hasenmueller about High Availability clustering on OS/2 and by
Starfire representatives Benjamin Claypool and Richard Spurlock on
Starfire Titan, a cross-platform administration system for enterprise
networks.
Even if some of these topics are of little interest for your own business,
the Friday schedule is packed with enough other sessions to fill the day :
Webmail/2, the Opera for OS/2 internet browser and the DFSee partitioning
tool are only a few of the exciting new products you will discover at
Warpstock Europe.
The above is just a sample of the presentations you can attend at
Warpstock Europe 2001. A complete list and an up-to-date schedule is
available at http://warpstock.os2.org/en/program/sessions3.php3 All
presentations will be repeated at least once during the three day event,
so you won't have to miss a thing!
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at
the 'KH Limburg' College near Hasselt, Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an
annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and
eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education, providing
information and support to everyone with an interest in these operating
systems or related technology. More information is available at the
Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org
Hypermake 3.99b
Martin Vieregg has released Hypermake 3.99b
With Hypermake (earlier version "MakeIPF"), you can easily create HTML
files or IBM IPF files, Winhelp and Microsoft HTML-Help files. Instead of
editing the HTML, IPF or RTF files directly, you enter a more simple ASCII
source text. Links are created automatically; windows of different
headings levels can be shown simultaneusly (frames) with only one command;
at the end of a chapter, links to subchapters are created automatically
and a lot of more.
http://www.vr-transport.de/Martin/english/hypermake.html
CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM File System Support, Version 1.5 updated
IBM has updated the UDF.IFS for CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM File System
Support
BTW. you need a software choice subscription to download the driver
Ghostview 4.04 beta released
Ghostgum has released GSView the Ghostscript PM-Frontend in v. 4.04beta
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/beta
GSView is a forntend viewer for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the
PostScript language and for PDF. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Timidity 2.10.4 released
Darwin O'Connor has released Timidity 2.10.4. It is a a text-mode version
of TiMidity 2.10.4. This isn't a MCD version. It supports more types of
module files, playing files from inside zip and other archives, playing
files directly off the web, a "ncurses" text mode interface and a much
cleaner port.
TiMidity plays MIDI and Module (.MOD) files. It does it in software
without depending on any hardware MIDI support your soundcard might have.
Sound quaility can be much higher because it limited by your CPU's power
and memory rather then your soundcard's power and memory.
http://www.reamined.on.ca/doconnor/timidity.htm
New codecs for Warpvision
I have uploaded new codecs for the Warpvision AVI player to Hobbes. These
codecs will enable the playing of the vast majority of AVIs, including
Indeo, Cinepac and MP4. All codecs have been tested for compatibility
with over 40 AVI files.
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wviscdc.zip
From: Jason Stefanovich stefanj@gte.net)
XSane 0.80
[Moderator note: The following post was received in German. It was
translated using Altavista's BabelFish - http://babelfish.altavista.co as
all the German speakers seem to be unavailable on IRC at the moment. ;-)
I hope it is reasonably correct. Please send any corrections to
feedback@os2voice.org ]
There is a new version of XSane for OS/2. XSane is a powerful graphic
frontend for SANE (scanner ACCESS Now Easy), which requires a functioning
libsane.dll (e.g. from SANE-1.05) and an XServer (e.g. XFree86/OS2).
Highlights:
Output formats: JPEG, tiff, Postscript, pnm, raw, png
copy by mouse-click (assistance of Ghostscript)
PNG directly send as email.
XSane is BETA. I.e. it runs for me (SANE 1.05, EPSON GT-9500), but has NOT
been tested elsewhere.
Feedback is desired! Send to fbakan@gmx.net
http://home.tiscalinet.de/fbakan/xsane-os2.htm
Warpzilla 0.9.5 (VACPP Build) is Available
From: Mike Kaply
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.5/mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.5.zip
Notable things in here that aren't in the trunk (yet) are:
Startup has been optimized
Plugins are working again
Off by one problems are fixed
At least one random hang has been fixed
Third level menus display properly
Enjoy!
Mike Kaply
IBM
Updates for UPS Monitor available.
UPS Monitor has been updated with new features and more support for
various UPS brands.
A new release for UPS Monitor B now supports APC Back-UPS ES series in
addition to the Back-UPS and Back-UPS Offices models.
UPS Monitor C has been updated to support most contact closure models by
adding UPS signal polarity selection. It even supports UPS models without
a communications interface. See the help for details.
UPS Monitor for PowerCard has been posted for the Guardian On Board
PowerCard, a small, internal UPS.
All UPS Monitor versions now include a manual shutdown menu with APM
shutdown option and a UPS-activated external script to use XWorkplace
Extended Shutdown.
UPS Monitor can be found at http://home.att.net/~ASchw/upsmonitor.html
From: Amin Schwarz LPAInfo@worldnet.att.net
LogView 1.02
ws it-service, Wolfram Schmid (w.schmid@ws-it.de) updated LogView, a text
file viewer program for OS/2 and eCS.
LogView can trace files in realtime and is very quick. It can be used
during program development to disply debug output or to show any other
text file or logfile created by any arbitrary program.
Features of LogView 1.02:
- Traces the growing of text files
- Handles large text files with more than 65535 lines
- Scrolls automatically to the end of the file (optional)
- Shows line numbers and file positions
- Starts viewing after program start (optional):
- from the begin of the file
- from the end of the file
- Window position and size can be stored.
- Column wide can be stored.
New in this version:
- Copy to the clipboard
- Open file via Drop
- File dialog
Web Site http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/logview
AOL protocol and source code
OSS AOLers have been working hard to figure out AOL's proprietary protocol
for their online service and popular AIM messenger.
This document "The AOL Protocol" gives in depth information on the login
and handshaking between the AOL client and servers:
http://www.aol-files.com/misc/theaolprotocol.wri
Also visual basic source code and more at:
under "AOL Protocol & Sign on and IM example"
Finally a nearly full, but unofficial specification for the AIM protocol
at "FAIM":
http://www.zigamorph.net/faim/protocol/
Great information for anyone who might think about implementing either of
these very popular services under OS/2.
From: Jason Stefanovich stefanj@gte.net
DFSee version 4.06 released
Another update to DFSee, with some fixes. It is also the version that will
be on the Warpstock-Europe CDrom (if all goes well :-)
DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool
with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.
Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm
Version 4.06 updates and fixes:
- Added FAT32 2nd/3rd bootsector display with freespace value
- Made
'nonstd type 0f' a non-critical warning ("part warn")
- Show all critical
warnings on PART display
- Fixed extended-int13 usage for Thinkpads (and possibly others)
- Added
low available memory tests and warnings to DOS versions
Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get
support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.
But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee! The next
major changes for DFSee will be multiple UNDO/REDO, and a command to
copy/move partitions.
Regards, Jan van Wijk
From: Jan van Wijk jvw@fsys.demon.nl
Crystal Drivers
If you have trouble with crystal soundchips with drivers from the
manufactures like AOpen aw 320 soundcard for os/2. Download the drivers
for these cards and others here. These drivers are sometime better with
addition features
http://www.cirrus.com/drivers/audiodrv/index_new.cfm?pg=2&OpSysID=5
Steven Douglas Taylor
sdtaylor@gnt.net
[Moderator note: These are not new drivers on the Cirrus site (last
updated in July 2000), but there has been a lot of discussion on some
forums about audio drivers, so this tip may be of help to people having
problems with getting these cards to work right under OS/2.]
MySQL/2 update
A second temporary update file has been made available:
http://yware.dnsalias.com/yuri/mysql2/mysql-3-23-42-upd2.zip (829KB)
If you don't have the C2T temporary file problem, you don't need
thisupdate.
The MySQL database server is the world's most widely used open source
database.
The OS2World.com Award Nomination Extended
We are happy to announce that the official nomination process has started
and we will accept nomination between the 23 September until 31 October.
So this period has now been extended to give You all a fair chance to
participate in the nomination process. The starting date for when the
final voting will start has not been set.
To submit Your nomination, please enter the Nomination Area.
http://www.os2world.com/award_nomi.shtml
If there is any questions or ideas how to improve the OS2 World Award,
please do not hesitate to contact us.
From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com
SmartCache 0.5.5 released
Smartcache 0.5.5 by Radim Kolar was released October 13. This is just a
minor bug-fix release.
http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/scache.html
[Moderator's note: Smart Cache is a full featured proxy cache server. It
can also be used as replacement for your browser's internal diskcache. ]
Junkbuster 2.9.9 alpha released
The development of Junkbuster continues - and an OS/2 port is available.
Junkbuster is a powerful web proxy that filters out unwanted web content
like advertisements, cookies, snoopy javascript, etc. Recent improvements
include things like improved HTTP 1.1 support and popup suppression.
Tester input is needed... the documentation is a little light at the
moment, but you can get support via the Junkbuster SourceForge website or
comp.os.os2.apps. A self-installing executable, as well as the source
code, is available.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118
ThirdEye/REXX is released
Now with Rexx interface! It's reality!
Build applications for digicams by yourself! Automate any routine!
Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/thirdeye/
REXX library:
http://ecomstation.ru/download/ThirdEye/ThirdEyeRexx_demo.zip (Registered
users can download full version)
e-mail: thirdeye@ecomstation.ru
New kernels (1015) on IBM's testcase site
IBM has new SMP, UNI and W4 kernels available on their testcase FTP site - ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/
smp1015.zip
smp1015d.zip
uni1015.zip
uni1015d.zip
w41015.zip
w41015d.zip
The xxxxxxd.zip archives are debug kernels. These replacement kernels are
for post MCP/ACP/W4F15/eCS systems. Installation instructions and a
listing of new features and fixes are included in the readme file included
with each archive. Also note that these kernels contain a new
CLOCK01.SYS. Please read the readme for details on how to use this.
There are also new versions of SES - ses1015.zip and files for the system
Dump Formatting df1015.zip available in the same directory.
As always these are not officially supported by IBM unless they tell you
to use them. Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet.
Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you
want to try these get them now. Make certain you back up any files
replaced and don't try these on a production system. You have been
warned. There is already a post on comp.os.os2.bugs about someone having
a TRAP on boot with one of these new kernels. The SMP1015 kernel booted
fine here on my eCS 1.0 test machine.
Survey related to support of USB devices in eCS and OS/2
Markus Montkowski (Netlabs) is developing usbresmg.sys driver, which will
allow to other programmers to make support of USB-devices: Digital
cameras, FM-tuners, TV-tuners, UPS, etc.
Support Markus in our on-line survey!
Your comments will be forwarded to Markus.
http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php?action=show&id=4
Programming sessions at Warpstock Europe 2001
If you come to Warpstock Europe 2001 you will be able to attend a variety
of presentations about different programming topics. The Warpstock Europe
conference offers professional level presentations for both novice
programmers as well as experts. This three day conference is therefore a
unique opportunity you simple can not afford to miss. Learn how to write
your own device drivers. Actively support open source software development
for OS/2 and eComStation. Find out how to develop interactive web sites
and much more...
Programming topics that will be presented at Warpstock Europe include web
development, device driver programming, OS/2 PM programming, cross
platform development, etc. Markus Montkowski will be doing several
sessions about USB and USB device drivers, Ulrich Moeller will talk about
extending the OS/2 Workplace Shell and about his extremely popular WarpIN
and XWorkplace software applications, Rony Flatcher will give an
introduction to the power of ObjectREXX and discuss JavaBean scripting
with REXX, Stephan Schwarzer will discuss the high level scripting
language Python and show you how to use it on OS/2.
The above is just a sample of the presentations you will be able to attend
at Warpstock Europe 2001. A complete list and an up-to-date schedule is
available at http://warpstock.os2.org/en/program/sessions3.php3 All
presentation sessions will be repeated at least once during the three day
event, so you won't have to miss anything!
The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at
the 'KH Limburg' College near Hasselt, Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an
annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and
eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education, providing
information and support to everyone with an interest in these operating
systems or related technology. More information is available at the
Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org
WIndows terminal server client for OS/2 (XFree86/2)
I've have made a quick (proof of concept) port of rdesktop to OS/2.
rdesktop is a free RDP client which you can use to connect to a Windows
NT/2000/XP Terminal Server. rdesktop was created by Samba team member
Matt Chapman.
It's not a native PM port. You'll need EMX and XFree86/2. If anyone is
willing to take over from me, please be my guest since I won't be doing
much work on it anymore.
More information, sourcecode and binaries can be downloaded from:
http://huizen.dds.nl/~jacco2/rdesktop/
Thanks,
Jacco
(To mail me: please be advised that I'm not in the military, but in The
Netherlands ;-). --
Jacco de Leeuw jacco2@dds.mil
XML slides from Warpstock
An enhanced version of my presentation (XML and XSLT processing on the
OS/2 and eCS platform) from Warpstock is now available at
http://www.magma.ca/~bourassa/ws2001 including some information attendees
requested. Links are attached so you can try out a real example of
generating a single document into a Web page, an OS/2 help file, and an
RTF file.
From: Gregory Bourassa bourassa@magma.ca
CC65 V2.7.0 - C crosscompiler for 6502
CC65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines,
including You can use this with VICE/2
[News Index]
- The Commodore C64, C128 and the C16, C116, Plus/4 machines.
- The CBM 510 (aka P500), a quite rare Commodore machine (programs
run in bank 0).
- The CBM 600/700 family (programs run in bank 1).
- Newer PET machines (not 2001)
- The Apple ][ (library support by Kevin Ruland <kevin@rodin.wustl.edu>)
- The Atari 8 bit machines (thanks to the Atari team: Christian
Groessler
<cpg@aladdin.de>, Mark Keates <markk@dendrite.co.uk>, Freddy Offenga
<taf_offenga@yahoo.com> and David Lloyd, <dmlloyd@atari-central.com>).
- GEOS for the C64 and C128 (GEOSLib by Maciej Witkowiak
<ytm@elysium.pl>)
editor@os2voice.org
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