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SW: PMDCalc Plus Version 0.9.8
Mag: VOICE Newsletter 04/2006 available
SW: Varsha - DVD Menu creation utility now available for OS/2 &
SW: New Wireless LAN Monitor (WLAN) V2.13 available
SW: Correction: New Wireless LAN Monitor (WLAN) V2.13 available]
SW: GetMyIP version 1.0.2 has been released.
SW: eComStation 2.0 beta 2 available for download
SW: PMMBogoFilter 0.6.1
Net: netlabs newsletter #6, WLAN Monitor, Developers Workshop 2006,
SW: New Cairo sample applications
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SW: RexxMail build 20060414.07381 released.
| SW: PMDCalc Plus Version 0.9.8 |
2006-04-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Herwig
This is a lightweight calculator for daily office use, which is optimized
for fast and simple calculations. In additions it has options to ease the
transfer of
- results from PMDCalc Plus into other programs
- numbers from other programs into PMDCalc Plus using the clipboard
and/or drag and drop.
Note: This calculator is not suitable for scientific mathematics, it is
not capable to handle brackets, it does not honor point calculation
before line calculation.
Besides being able to calculate it has the following features:
-Option to always stay on top.
- Buttons to quickly transfer numbers from and to the clipboard.
-In addition optionally transform the numbers from REXX standard format
to the nationalized number format of OS/2 (eCS).
-Export the complete tape to the clipboard.
-Export the complete tape to a plain text file.
-Export the complete tape to a CSV file (suitable for import in OOO Calc).
-Export the memory register to the clipboard
-Optionally export results automatically to the clipboard.
-Optionally convert comma only to nationalized format.
-Hotkeys to access many functions directly from the keyboard.
-Fonts on buttons and display can be configured via d'n'd.
-Drag and drop numbers
-Autoimport from and autoexport to the clipboard.
-Easy conversion to and from one additional currency.
-Drag and drop numbers from memory into display and vice versa
-Drag and drop numbers from tape to display
-Drag and drop numbers to and from other applications when Rich Walsh's
DragText is configured properly
-Hide the keyboard.
Get PMDCalc Plus from:
http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/pmdcalcp/pmdcalcp098.wpi
or
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmdcalcp098.wpi
Later:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/calc/pmdcalcp098.wpi
Regards,
Herwig
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| Mag: VOICE Newsletter 04/2006 available |
2006-04-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: editorDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org
The April issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
For online reading:
English - http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
German - http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
For download:
English (HTML) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0406h.zip
English (INF) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0406i.zip
German (HTML) - http://de.os2voice.org/files/vnl0406h_de.zip
German (INF) - http://de.os2voice.org/files/vnl0406i_de.zip
In the latest issue you find:
o Our Future -- by Mark Dodel
o Software Patents: Here we go again. . . - An urgent Message from the
VOICE President -- by Roderick Klein
o Spell check in EPM with easily changeable dictionary files -- by V. Weise
o DBox2 - Video Streaming on OS/2 and eCS -- by Andreas Peters
o The ThinkPad On Screen Display Utility -- by Robert Henschel
o Adventures in AMD 64 Land -- by Peter Brown
o How to create a database using Lotus Smartsuite - Part Three -- by
Arthur van Egmond
o And of course letters, addenda, and tips!
Older issues can be found at http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, or
http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, and the Hobbes archive as well.
As always a big thank you to our authors, editors, and translators without
whom there would be no VOICE
Newsletter. Please consider helping with the translation or writing an
article for the Newsletter. Guidelines for
submissions to the VOICE Newsletter are available at
http://www.os2voice.org/newsletter_submission.html,
including some suggestions for topics.
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| SW: Varsha - DVD Menu creation utility now available for OS/2 & |
2006-04-08
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've just added a link to Varsha to http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
Varsha is a GUI based DVD authoring tool (originally) for Linux. You can
make DVDs from your mpeg files Using Varsha, you can also create menus
incorporating backdrop of still pictures as well as moving video background.
Whilst this isn't a port as such, as Varsha is a java based application,
the original distribution at sourceforge had issues on OS/2 and would hang
during processing some of the files.
I've made some changes/hacks to the java code to get it working on OS/2 &
eComStation. It has been tested with Innotek Java 1.4.2 and Goldencode
Java 1.4.1
There are still some limitations. For example, there is no OS/2 port of
the slideshow program Varsha uses, so making slideshows won't work
currently. Also, I haven't yet made any changes so that Varsha can use
dvddao to burn the generated ISO to DVD. That will come depending on how
much interest there is in this package.
readme.os2 inside the zip file contains rough instructions on what is
required to get this going. All feedback is appreciated. Bugs can be
reported via http://mantis.smedley.info
Thanks,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
8th April, 2006.
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| SW: New Wireless LAN Monitor (WLAN) V2.13 available |
2006-04-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
http://wlan.netlabs.org/
"New Wireless LAN Monitor V2.13 available 09.04.2006
This version of the Wireless LAN Monitor implements some bug fixes. New is
the support for the MPTS configuration hack of the installation program of
Injoy Firewall, breaking the normal configuration scheme of PROTOCOL.INI
and preventing until now XWLAN from determining the TC/IP interface of the
WLAN device. Please see the revision history included."
Download: ftp://www.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan213.zip
"Wireless LAN Monitor, the state-of-the-art solution to manage your
Wireless LAN devices, providing the following features:
* monitoring the status of your Wireless LAN connection
* support of multipe connection profiles, which can be exported and
imported
* optionally configuring the TCP/IP interface of the Wireless LAN device
* automatic connection scan on startup
* automatic generation of WEP keys
* detection of public Wireless LANs "
From Revision history in the WLAN Help file:
"-Version 2.13
New:
-modified Radio properties page: the property for (de)activating radio on
program startup is now selectable by a combobox instead of radio buttons.
-implemented new Radio property Deactivate on program end
-added support for MPTS configuration hack of installation program of Injoy
Firewall
Fixed:
-implemented missing code to store property error beep, when getting out of
range of the Errorhandling page of the Wireless LAN Monitor properties
notebook
-fixed error in GenMac module preventing from using a WLAN driver if it was
not the first and only one
-fixed driver in scan for hotspots... dialog preventing from activating a
public hostspot without a corresponding connection profile"
Support: GenMac-User mail list To subscribe, e-mail:
genmac-user-subscribe@netlabs.org
or access it via http at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general/
or access via newsreader at gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general news group on
the news news://server news.gmane.org
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| SW: Correction: New Wireless LAN Monitor (WLAN) V2.13 available] |
2006-04-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
[Moderator note: I copied the wrong email address for the WLAN-user support
mailing list. It should be wlan-user-subscribe@netlabs.org to subscribe.
Sorry about that.]
http://wlan.netlabs.org/
"New Wireless LAN Monitor V2.13 available 09.04.2006
This version of the Wireless LAN Monitor implements some bug fixes. New is
the support for the MPTS configuration hack of the installation program of
Injoy Firewall, breaking the normal configuration scheme of PROTOCOL.INI
and preventing until now XWLAN from determining the TC/IP interface of the
WLAN device. Please see the revision history included."
Download: ftp://www.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan213.zip
"Wireless LAN Monitor, the state-of-the-art solution to manage your
Wireless LAN devices, providing the following features:
* monitoring the status of your Wireless LAN connection
* support of multipe connection profiles, which can be exported and
imported
* optionally configuring the TCP/IP interface of the Wireless LAN device
* automatic connection scan on startup
* automatic generation of WEP keys
* detection of public Wireless LANs "
From Revision history in the WLAN Help file:
"-Version 2.13
New:
-modified Radio properties page: the property for (de)activating radio on
program startup is now selectable by a combobox instead of radio buttons.
-implemented new Radio property Deactivate on program end
-added support for MPTS configuration hack of installation program of Injoy
Firewall
Fixed:
-implemented missing code to store property error beep, when getting out of
range of the Errorhandling page of the Wireless LAN Monitor properties
notebook
-fixed error in GenMac module preventing from using a WLAN driver if it was
not the first and only one
-fixed driver in scan for hotspots... dialog preventing from activating a
public hostspot without a corresponding connection profile"
Support: GenMac-User mail list To subscribe, e-mail:
wlan-user-subscribe@netlabs.org
or access it via http at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general/
or access via newsreader at gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general news group on
the news news://server news.gmane.org
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| SW: GetMyIP version 1.0.2 has been released. |
2006-04-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Lueersen, Posted on comp.os.os2.announce
GetMyIP version 1.0.2 has been released.
Get your external IP address.
This Program will retrieve your IP address assigned to a host either
through an external server. The address is an external IP address which may
be dynamically assigned by an ISP.
New Commandline
New Bugreport
New Help /? at Commandline
New WPGeiMyIP
WorkPlaceGetMyIP is a GetMyIP object which downloads your IP and
displays it on your desktop.
New WPGetMyIP_all5m
WorkPlaceGetMyIP_all5m is a GetMyIP object which downloads your IP and
displays it on your desktop with automatic update every 5 minutes.
GetMyIP is free software!
-> Info: http://www.warp-ecs-owl.de/Peter_GetMyIP.html
-> URL: http://www.warp-ecs-owl.de/PETER/GetMyIP102.zip
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| SW: eComStation 2.0 beta 2 available for download |
2006-04-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Bob St.John (bstjohnDESPAM@DESPAMserenity-systems.com)
Available for download to Software Subscription Services customers after
login at Mensys or eComStation.biz.
You can view the full readme at:
http://ewiki.ecomstation.nl/ecomstation20beta2
An excerpt:
== INTRODUCTION ==
This is the second beta release of eComStation 2.0. This product is
available for download to all registered eComStation customers of Software
Subscription Services.
For more information on that, please visit:
http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/
- ACPI, This version installs and detects ACPI [updated to release
2.0.6]
- SNAP/ENT the special licensed version of SNAP by Serenity is
in there, we boot Snap directly from CD-Rom [updated to version 3.1.5,
build 500]
- Bootable JFS, this version is able to install on bootable JFS volumes.
Installing onto a bootable JFS volume will show a dramatic performance
increase!
- Updated UNIAUD to version 1.1.4 RC1
- Updated all USB drivers to 10.162
- Generally the system has been brought up to date to the eComStation
1.2R release level
- Additional debugging tools for bootable JFS (see \ECS\BOOTJFS for the
tools and \ECS\DOC\BOOTJFS for documentation)
- Replaced Mozilla with Firefox 1.5 & Thunderbird 1.5. Currently they
are both installed together.
- Replaced EscapeGL screensaver with DS Saver (which can be activated
and configured from the desktop properties context menu)
- Added Cairo library to enable the Cairo Screensaver modules.
- Added Firewall configuration utility. Installed by default when TCP/IP
is selected.
- Added FAT32 and NTFS (readonly) IFS under "Experimental Features"
- Added eSchemes application, a new way to configure the look and feel
of the desktop. This is considered highly experimental and as such can
only be installed with Advanced Installation, under "Experimental
Features"
- Added additional eSchemes, as available from
http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/eschemes/
== WHAT TO TEST ==
We are especially interested in:
- stability of Bootable JFS, we know there are some issues with Bootable
JFS not being able to boot the system. Please note that if you boot to
another volume with 'classic' JFS, you may not be able to access/boot
your newly created Bootable JFS volume. To overcome this, you can boot
from the eCS 2.0 beta 2 CD and perform a checkdisk from the
Maintenance Console.
- your experience with eSchemes. The developer needs feedback on the
usability, stability and overall performance of eSchemes.
- ACPI. It is possible to enable eShutdown (via the desktop properties
contecxt menu) If enabled, and if ACPI is detected and installed on
your system (automatically by the installer) you will be able to
power-off the system with the shutdown button.
- Firewall configuration. The Firewall configuration tool may need some
tweaking and tuning in it's default values and settings.
== DISTRIBUTION / CREATING CDS ==
This product is provided as a downloadable ISO file, this is a raw CD image
that you can burn on CD-R media. For instruction on burning the CD image to
CD please consult the PDF document howtoburncds.pdf in the same directory.
The file to download is: ecs20beta2_cd1_en.zip (579.826.553 bytes)
== TESTING THE DOWNLOADED FILE ==
You can verify the integrity of the download ISO file using this MD5 checksum:
FD57-55AE-5D45-FBC3-FA50-244F-4200-1A19 ecs20beta2_en_cd1.iso
To generate the MD5 checksum of your downloaded file, please download from
Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/encrypt/md5suml.zip
== USING DIFF TO REDUCE DOWNLOAD SIZE ==
If you already downloaded vnext_en_us_a1.zip earlier, you can also download
a so called DIFF file, from which you can create the new ISO. This requires
you to already have the previous ISO file available. The following DIFF
file is offered:
7C3F-E7F7-1C37-BBB8-4824-7CAC-570C-D12F ecs20beta1b-beta2.diff which is
contained in \diff\ecs20beta1b-beta2.zip (74.135.973 bytes)
Please verify that you have the proper MD5 sum of the DIFF file and the
original ISO file as well: 11C2-8EF1-65AB-D0D6-28CD-F48D-83D0-D447
ecs20beta1b_en_cd1.iso
In order to create the full ISO out of the older files, issue the following
command: (you can change the ISO names of course)
gdiff -u ecs20beta1b_en_cd1.iso ecs20beta1b-beta2.diff ecs20beta2_en_cd1.iso
GDiff is a tool of Daniel Hellerstein, more information can be found in
gdiff.doc or on the following website:
http://www.srehttp.org/apps/gdiff/
NOTE: Please verify the resulting ISO to have the correct MD5 sum,
mentioned above.
For instruction on burning the CD image to CD please consult the PDF
document howtoburncds.pdf in the same directory.
Url: http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: PMMBogoFilter 0.6.1 |
2006-04-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"This package supplies the required REXX scripts, to allow PMMail to use
the BogoFilter package (available for separate download, from HOBBES).
BogoFilter is a Bayesian filter program. There is the main script, which
causes incoming mail to be scanned by BogoFilter, which evaluates the
words, to determine if the e-mail is SPAM, or not. It then adds a line in
the header, which indicates the results of the evaluation. From that
information, a PMMail filter can separate the SPAM into a folder (or the
TRASH, if you prefer). Two other filters (or, with PMMail 1.96a, a separate
training program) call the REXX scripts to train BogoFilter to recognize
e-mail that was not evaluated as SPAM, to be rcognized as SPAM, and to
train it to NOT recognize it as SPAM, if it was erroneously evaluated as
being SPAM.
NEW: bogofilter-1.0.2-os2.zip now supported, available from Paul Smedley:
Linux ports to OS/2 & eComStation http://smedley.info/os2ports.html NOTE: I
have been unable to get this to work with PMMail 1.96a, and/or warp4. If
anyone manages to do that, please let me know. Meanwhile, use either
PMMBogoFilter0.5.7 (recommended), or PMMBogoFilter0.6.0.
Runs on: OS/2, or eComStation, and PMMail v2.x (tested on v 2.20.2382)
Requires: The bogofilter-1.0.2-os2.zip package, available from Paul
Smedley at: http://smedley.info/os2ports.html which also requires LIBC061,
from: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip WarpIn 1.0.9, or
higher, available from HOBBES InfoZIP's ZIP and UNZIP"
Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmmbogofilter061.wpi
Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pmmbogofilter061.wpi
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| Net: netlabs newsletter #6, WLAN Monitor, Developers Workshop 2006, |
2006-04-11
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org
This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter
A bit later then regular, but that all has to do with the great Developer
Workshop many enjoyed last weekend :-)
News from netlabs.org:
03. - 09. April
* XWLAN Wireless LAN Monitor
o New version 2.13 is released
o Please see the excellent documentation for a changelog
o See: http://wlan.netlabs.org/
* netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006
o Homepage: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006
o Presentations: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/
o Recorded presentations: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/ogg/
o Not all information is available and put online yet, so keep watching
these locations the coming days!
o Don't miss all the great stuff that has been discussed and showed
(even via WebCam and Realtime audiostream!)
* QT3 Library News
o Various enhancements, like a fixed trap after issuing exit() from a
QApplication
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline
* Multichannel Testing tool for Uniaud (NEW)
o This tool is useful for setting up/testing a multichannel environment.
o It requires UNIAUD audio driver and latest UNIAUD API (uniaud.dll from
March 2006 or later).
o The tool is a Presentation Manager application.
o All needed information is included in the ZIP file, just read the
readme file.
o See: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/multtest.zip
27. - 31. March / 01. - 02. April
* Samba Server and Client Update
o A new version of the Netdrive Samba plugin and the Samba Server were
released
o It was built using the new LibC 0.6.1 CSD1
o Netdrive plugin: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/ndpsmb-3.0.9-b13.zip
o Samba Server: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/samba-3.0.9-a8.zip
* QT3 Library News
o QSessionManger class was implemented
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3
Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/
Thanks for your support!
We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org
Greetings,
netlabs.org team
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| SW: New Cairo sample applications |
2006-04-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: doodleDESPAM@DESPAMscenergy.dfmk.hu
For those who want to get familiar with Cairo on OS/2, the presentation of
the latest Developers Workshop with the new sample applications are now
online on Netlabs.
Here is the presentation:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/events/DWS2006/presentations/ProgrammingCairo-dws06.pdf
And here is the zip containing the sample applications referenced by the
presentation:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.0.4-os2-dev.zip
Happy coding! :)
Url: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Net: Developers Workshop Biel, some pictures |
2006-04-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
Some pictures of the OS2/eCS developer workshop held in Biel, Switzerland
are available for viewing in my gallery at:
http://www.dfsee.com/gallery/mg2/
They will probably appear somewhere at the Netlabs Wiki as well:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006
As soon as someone there downloads the images from:
http://www.dfsee.com/download/dws-biel-800.zip
Which is a 6Mb ZIP with 41 images in 800x534, or
http://www.dfsee.com/download/dws-biel-1280.zip
A 7Mb ZIP with 24 images in 1280x854 resolution.
Regards, JvW
=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
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| Event: SCOUG April Meeting - ePDF and bootAble |
2006-04-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown
Spring into the season with SCOUG! We are going to start our April meeting
off with an ePDF tutorial. ePDF is an eCS/OS2 native Adobe Acrobat
Distiller. Sandy Shapiro is going to show us how to set up it and what it
can do.
Just to show that no good deed goes unpunished, Sandy is doing double duty
this month. A number of folks have asked how to build a bootable CD. Sandy
- with help from Harry Motin - is going to show us how it's done. They are
going to use Hayo Baan's bootAble and RSJ CD-Writer.
For those that prefer the command line, Steven Levine is going to follow up
with how to use bootAble with mkisofs and cdrecord.
Finally, the Programming SIG is going to finish up with the "Introduction
to PM Programming" that was originally scheduled for last month. Like most
software related projects, it did not happen as scheduled. Perhaps the
planned development system of the future will help us avoid this in the future.
Got questions? SCOUG has answers! Our Q&A session at each meeting gives you
a great opportunity to work the kinks out of your systems.
As always donuts and coffee will be there. You should come too. See you on
Saturday.
Room 326 of the Eastside Christian School
at the Grace Ministries Complex
1645 W Valencia Dr. in Fullerton
For a map and further directions,see:
http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html
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| SW: RexxMail build 20060414.07381 released. |
2006-04-14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Marcus de Geus
A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
<http://www.degeus.com/rexxmail/>
RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which
uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of
functions and options with full command-line access.
New in this release:
- Lines displayed on the console device are now clipped to fit the text
screen width.
- SocketMonitor now sends its output to the standard output device rather
than the standard error device.
- Bugfix: Text content in multipart/alternative messages was not displayed
if the alternative was text/enriched.
Best regards,
Marcus de Geus
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