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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 1 Mar 96 Volume 14 : Issue 53
Today's Topics:
[!] Recent Lost Submissions
[*] "Midnight 3D" StartUp Movie (In Stereo)
[*] BulkRate 2.1.3
[*] Electronic Greetings Creator Lite
[*] Fantasm v4.01
[*] Filelock 1.3.1; file-folder-disk locking/unlocking.
[*] FileT&C 2.0.1; type & creator changing.
[*] Maryland HTB 4
[*] Michigan HTB 4
[*] Minnetsota HTB 4
[*] Mississippi HTB 4
[*] Missouri HTB 4
[*] Montana HTB 4
[*] Stefan's Find Alternative
[*] TearOff menus with CustomMenus 1.0.2J / Japanese Version
[*] Update to FirstOffice 1.1
(Q) File synchronization via ftp connection
(Q) Multiple News-servers/What program?
(Q)PPP&PAP (a lot of P's)
(Q) Travan drives for mac?
(R) AppleCare-Worth the Price?
(R) IOMEGA Query
[A]: Recovering from recovery
[A] Mailing Lists (2 msgs)
[Q] A neat way to Get Info...
[Q] Guesssst access on LocalTalk
[Q] Shutdown problem on Q700 and 7.5.1
[Q] What does the AWS do
Apple Script Icons
Atari virtual disk editor 1.1.1 description
Boot from Zip/external drive (A)
Cmd-opt-shift-delete
Eudora/MailShare to UUPC 3.1? & MacTCP Ideas?
Extension Informant VIRUS
Good SMTP server software?
Info-Mac Digest V14 #52
locking Fonts folder
Mailing Lists
Multipel monitors
Performa 5200 bugchecker.
Printing Problems Solved with HP 660C???
Q: Is there a gentle way to go with forms and cgi's?
Question Word 5.1
Read Me files
Spell Checker
Startup Disk Sequence
System 7.5.1 Conflicts?
system 7.5.3
system freezes
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 05:06:07 -0700
From: Demitri Muna
Subject: [!] Recent Lost Submissions
Greetings,
Two days ago there was a big problem with a certain email account, the
upshot of which is that there are a number of submissions and file
descriptions sent to info-mac that were lost.
Here is the relevent information:
*If you have submitted a file on Tuesday or before AND do not see your
file on your local mirror by tomorrow, please upload the file again.
*If you sent the file to macgifts, do not send it there again - it will
be copied to many people who already received the file. Instead, send it
to [email protected].
*This does not apply to files that have been submitted by ftp, only to
files or descriptions sent to macgifts or directly to the info-mac email
drop box.
Also, to repeat a recent message, the Info-Mac FTP drop box has been
moved to its new home:
ftp://macgifts:[email protected]
(...or ftp to info-mac.org, username macgifts, password macgifts for
those unfamiliar with the secret URL handshake.)
I apologize for the inconvenience this must cause, and I'll get those
files up ASAP!
Thanks for your patience,
Demitri
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:19 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] "Midnight 3D" StartUp Movie (In Stereo)
The "Midnight 3D" StartUp Movie is a great stereo QuickTime animation for
use as an intro into your System. It begins with a deep-blue cloudscape
slowly making its way across the screen, as though you were looking up at
it with the moon behind the clouds. The clouds slowly disappear
revealing a dark, starry sky-type scene that moves slowly, suddenly
exploding into tiny pieces that fly towards you through the screen,
revealing a vivid royal blue 3D "Macintosh" written in an abstract
scribly font revolving in the center with a solid black background. The
word then comes to a halt facing you, ending the movie.
The movie also contains a stereo soundtrack that compliments the images
you see, particularly when the sky seems to explode and you not only see
the particles floating towards you, you hear them as well. The
soundtrack is in 8-bit, 22kHz stereo.
The Midnight 3D StartUp movie can be downloaded here or at the Clixsounds
WWW site at http://www.edmondsun.com/clix/ , along with many other
animations and original sound files. You must have the Quicktime
extension installed in your system, but need no additional software.
Instructions are included with the file for proper installation.
Clixsounds can be reached at:
Internet: [email protected]
America Online: CLIXSOUNDS
eWorld: CLIXSOUNDS
[Archived as /info-mac/art/mov/midnight-3d-qt.hqx; 1408K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:17 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] BulkRate 2.1.3
I just noticed that you still have an old version of BulkRate, the offline
reader for FirstClass BBSs, on your archives. This is 2.1.3, the most
recent version.
I am not the author, I am merely forwarding this.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/bbs/bulk-rate-213-first-class.hqx; 508K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:22 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Electronic Greetings Creator Lite
Electronic Greetings Creator, was developed to fill the market need for a
three-dimensional, personalizable and creative e-mail. Electronic
Greetings Creator is a software package that loads onto any standard Mac.
The EG user creates a personalized greeting card by folowing the simple
on-line instructions and can attach the card to an outgoing e-mail
address. The receiver of the card will open the card by clicking on the
attached object with their mouse.
Electronic Greetings Creator allows the user to fill out cards with out
being on line,and mail via any on-line system (eg compuserve, AOL and
eWorld) in addition to internet delivery. Please e-mail
[email protected] with any comments or suggestions and please watch out
for new EG applications!
To find out more about Electronic Greetings visit our Web site at
http://www.sitegroup.com/eg.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/electronic-greetings-11.hqx; 354K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:11 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Fantasm v4.01
FANTASM Version 4.01 Unregistered
The latest update of the popular Macintosh Assembler 'Fantasm' (by
Lightsoft). This is the shareware version, for distribution everywhere....
Important Update: This contains both PowerPC and 680x0 Assemblers!!! It
also corrects a bug that was in v4.00
Rob Probin at Lightsoft.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/fantasm-401.hqx; 1606K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:09 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Filelock 1.3.1; file-folder-disk locking/unlocking.
Filelock 1.3.1 is a Drag&Drop application which locks/unlocks anything!
Filelock 1.3.1 can lock/unlock, within few seconds, all files,
disks,folders (even nested) dragged. It locks unlocked files and unlock the
locked ones, but supports Drop Keys: all files dragged will be locked by
pressing Option key, instead, by pressing Command key, all files will be
unlocked.
Also Filelock 1.3.1 supports the dragging of multiple items, is able to
work in background and tracks the command-period/escape-key typing.
The Filelock 1.3.1 package contains a version for 68K Macs and a version
for Power Macs.
It requires at least System 7 to run.
New since version 1.3.0:
Added tri-dimensional buttons. All modal dialogs are now movable. Added a
notification procedure. Added PowerPC version. Improved registration form.
Lot of minor changes.
Author: Rocco Moliterno
e-mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/filelock-131.hqx; 79K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:06 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] FileT&C 2.0.1; type & creator changing.
FileT&C 2.0.1 is a Drag&Drop application to change file type & creator..
It's very useful for normal use, but is really cool when works, quickly,
with a lot of file, therefore supports the dragging of disks and folders
and works fine and fast in background...
FileT&C 2.0.1 has some useful drop keys to change, on the fly, using the
preferred type and creator set in the preferences and skipping the "Request
Dialog".
Also you can instruct FileT&C 2.0.1 to skip, during its performance, some
file type.
The FileT&C 2.0.1 package contains a version for 68K Macs and a version
for Power Macs.
It requires at least System 7 to run.
New since version 2.0.0:
All modal dialogs are now movable. Added PowerPC version. Improved the
Registration Form. Added a "choose" button for each file to skip, in the
preferences dialog. Improved the preferences dialog job. Lot of minor
changes.
Author: Rocco Moliterno
e-mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/file-t-and-c-201.hqx; 96K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:19:52 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Maryland HTB 4
Shareware $19.00 - Requires HyperCard 2.0 or HyperCard Player. Interactive
educational encyclopedic reference materials on the state of Maryland and
related topics.
Jeff Iverson, Iverson Software Co.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/md-hyper-text-book-4.hqx; 96K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:19:54 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Michigan HTB 4
Shareware $19.00 - Requires HyperCard 2.0 or HyperCard Player. Interactive
educational encyclopedic reference materials on the state of Michigan and
related topics.
Jeff Iverson, Iverson Software Co.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/mi-hyper-text-book-4.hqx; 117K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:19:57 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Minnetsota HTB 4
Shareware $19.00 - Requires HyperCard 2.0 or HyperCard Player. Interactive
educational encyclopedic reference materials on the state of Minnesota and
related topics.
Jeff Iverson, Iverson Software Co.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/mn-hyper-text-book-4.hqx; 109K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:01 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Mississippi HTB 4
Shareware $19.00 - Requires HyperCard 2.0 or HyperCard Player. Interactive
educational encyclopedic reference materials on the state of Mississippi and
related topics.
Jeff Iverson, Iverson Software Co.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/ms-hyper-text-book-4.hqx; 83K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:19:59 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Missouri HTB 4
Shareware $19.00 - Requires HyperCard 2.0 or HyperCard Player. Interactive
educational encyclopedic reference materials on the state of Missouri and
related topics.
Jeff Iverson, Iverson Software Co.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/mo-hyper-text-book-4.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:03 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Montana HTB 4
Shareware $19.00 - Requires HyperCard 2.0 or HyperCard Player. Interactive
educational encyclopedic reference materials on the state of Montana and
related topics.
Jeff Iverson, Iverson Software Co.
http://prairie.lakes.com/~j5rson
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/mt-hyper-text-book-4.hqx; 85K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:19:50 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Stefan's Find Alternative
This release of Stefan's Find Alternative adds support to Norton's FastFind.
Hi! Stefan's Find Alternative is a free package designed to allow users to
choose which utility they use in place of System 7.5's Find File.
Stefan's Find Alternative supports System 7.5's Find File, ZMac's Find Pro
III, File Buddy and Norton's FastFind. If there is another program you'd
like me to add support to, just let me know, and I'll release another
version.
What makes this package stand apart from other utilities that offer the same
thing is that Stefan's Find Alternative is free, and since the user does the
installation, it will work regardless what version of the Finder and Find
File Extension you have.
Here's a run-down of what Stefan's Find Alternative offers:
* Depending which utility you use, you're given complete instructions how to
install the right "version" for you, so the appropriate application launches
when you type a Command + F or use the "Find..." command in the Finder.
* The Finder is given a new File menu. The "Find..." command is replaced
with a command appropriate to what utility the user prefers to use. For
example, File Buddy users will have a "File Buddy..." command, and Find Pro
III users will have a "Find Pro III..." command.
* Other commands are added to the File menu: a Quit (Command + Q) and Reveal
Original (Command + R) command which are featured in my Finder Menus package
(the Reveal Original command allows you to locate an alias's original item in
a single keystroke).
Stefan's Find Alternative just might be enough an incentive for you to switch
from System 7.5's Find File over to File Buddy (which I use), Find Pro III or
Norton's FastFind. File Buddy is available here on America Online; just go
to Keyword: QUICKFINDER and search for the words "file buddy". Currently,
Find Pro III is available only from ZMac software sites, such as eWorld's
software libraries or on CompuServe. FastFind is bundled with a commercial
package, Norton Utilities.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/stefans-find-alternative.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:19:47 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] TearOff menus with CustomMenus 1.0.2J / Japanese Version
This is the Japanese Version of the CustomMenus control panel.
- Tear-off menus and have them float above the desktop where
you can access them at any time.
- Pop-up the menu bar under the mouse - no more long trips to the
top of the screen!
- Create your own custom menus with only the items that you use
most often.
- Display menus in your chosen colors and fonts.
- And more...
This version features many bug fixes, and increased compatibility with
HyperCard version 2.3.
Christopher Li
E-Mail: [email protected]
Nifty-Serve: KGB00252
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/custom-menus-102-jp.hqx; 144K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:20:14 -0800
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] Update to FirstOffice 1.1
FirstOffice is the best low-cost accounting program available for the
Macintosh. It is shareware $20, $50 or $100.
The enclosed program installer replaces version 1.0 of First Office G/L,
Medium and Large which used to be shipped separately. They are now shipped
in one installer, leading to significant space savings.
Release notes:
Update to FirstOffice 1.1
Release 2/28/96
Our excellent shareware accounting software FirstOffice is now even better!
Update highlights
* To simplify installation, we now ship all three versions using one
installer (1.7 MB),
* tax Code has been added to the Customer card to simplify sales tax handling,
* the automatic roundoff is changed to exact notation,
* the reports have been updated to include sales tax accounts,
* the Inventory calculation has been corrected and
* some language errors have been corrected.
For questions concerning this procedure, or FirstOffice in general, please
send your e-mail to .
Baltic Business Software, Inc. Eva Watte
[email protected] US Rep
http://www.kagi.com/authors/baltic/
Professional Strength Accounting Software
[Archived as /info-mac/data/first-office-11.hqx; 2472K]
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:39:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Jim Matthews)
Subject: (Q) File synchronization via ftp connection
In article ,"Mark Allen"
wrote:
>I have 2 Power Macs between which I exchange files via ftp over a phone PPP
>connection. On one I am running the new NetPresenz application and on the
>other I run Fetch. What I would like to do is periodically synchronize
>selected folders on the 2 machines.
Fetch 3.0 comes with an AppleScript, BackupFolderToURL, which provides for
one-way synchronization. You could modify it to support two-way
synchronization. I should note that the script with 3.0 has a bug; you
should get Fetch 3.0.1b2 from ftp.dartmouth.edu, since it includes a fixed
script.
--
Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:24:55 +0100
From: Matti Zemack
Subject: (Q) Multiple News-servers/What program?
Hi all macers,
I've recently started using a modem TCP/IP - PPP connection over
modem from home. I've checked out Netscape, Eudora, Fetch vs. Anarchie.
But one thing that worries me is: I've tried a couple of News-readers,
but none of the programs I've tried has made it possible for me to connect
to different News-servers in the same program.
It doesn't matter what programs I've tried, I just wonder, if anyone out
there in the mac-world has solved this, or knows a program that handles
a few different news-servers please mail me (I'd rather have it mailed to my
adress than posted to info-mac, I'm weeks behind reading them...)
Thanks,
Matti Zemack [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:48:20 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: (Q)PPP&PAP (a lot of P's)
Dear Mac-Infomeisters,
I have a problem. I cannot connect to my PPP server with MacTCP and MacPPP.
I would like to know if there is software with PAP compatibility because that
would be much easier than the script thing which I cannot get to work. PAP
is somehting wich automatically senses whether or not the connection is
trying to establish PPP and eliminates a lot of hassle. Thanks for your help
everyone,
kurt
[email protected]
-> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Eval:23Apr95
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 19:48:00 -0500
From: [email protected] (Steve Strassmann)
Subject: (Q) Travan drives for mac?
I keep seeing these nice cheap Travan tape drives,
like the Iomega Ditto 800. At around $150, they're
worth comparing to DAT drives at $800 or more.
But they're only available for Wintel, it seems.
Has anyone found a way to hook these up to a Mac and
use them reliably, say, with Retrospect 3.0?
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:47:17 -0600
From: [email protected] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: (R) AppleCare-Worth the Price?
>> I have recieved in the mail an offer to sign up for the AppleCare
>>Extended Warranty for my Performa 630. I would like to know if anyone else
>>on this list has had experience with AppleCare and if it's worth the price
>>(about $200 for my computer and printer). Do you consider an extended
>>warranty worth it, especially for a home user?
>
>
>In my opinion, extended warranties are not worth the cost.
My Duo 210 has had six motherboards, two keyboards, 1 display and two
batteries go bad in three years. All but the batteries, which were simply
worn out, were replaced under a $160 extended warranty.
Hopefully, your mileage will vary. My warranty just ran out and the next
failure will result in a new Powerbook 5400
Clark R. Wilkins * President, J.D.I. Solutions, Inc. * 713-974-2434 (f)
713-974-5248
Providing computer solutions for small businesses since last Tuesday...
P.S. Address changing to [email protected] after 2/26/96 (valid now...)
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:03:56 -0500
From: [email protected] (Pierre Tison)
Subject: (R) IOMEGA Query
>Subject: [Q] IOMEGA Query
>
>In a word, HELP!
>
>Two days ago I used a cartridge on my Zip drive. Today, I push it back in
>(it was ejected but not removed) and it asks whether I want to initialize
>it! Suddenly, THE DISK IS UNREADABLE!!??? What happened? Can it be
>fixed?
>
Hi,
I've got the same problem few weeks ago and
I used Norton utilities 3.0, Disk tool pro 4.0
and again Norton 2 times to finaly open the disk
and reconized him on the desktop...
since that time no problems....
I hope it helps
Pierre Tison
www.cam.org/~ptison.
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:19:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: Charlie Stross
Subject: [A]: Recovering from recovery
Thanks to everyone who responded -- I've never had so many replies to one
question on this list before!
I've figured out two ways of fixing my problem (5000 files dumped in one
folder by MacTools pro, following a disk crash).
The problem, to recap, was that neither the finder -- nor any other
Mac application I could find -- was happy about reading such a huge
folder.
Thanks to Doug Frick for suggesting nShell-Pro, and everyone else who
suggested using frontier, applescript, MacPerl, or similar. nSP
does indeed read huge directories, and I'm pretty sure the other
shells do too. The problem is that reading through the list of files
in such a monster directory just _once_ takes four hours or so! Trying
to untangle the mess using any kind of Mac app would therefore take
days or weeks -- because of limitations built into the way the Mac
system handles filesystems.
There is, of course, a 'better' way. At least, it's more elegant --
and if you get a command wrong you don't have to either reboot the Mac
or wait four hours while it reads through 5000 directory entries.
Sitting on the desk next to my Mac is a PC, running Linux, with plenty
of disk space. Both machines have (or will have, by Monday) ethernet
cards. The PC (crucial factor!) has a SCSI interface.
The procedure for recovering from the monster directory is therefore
to ...
1. Connect the Mac external disk containing the monster to the
PC.
2. Compile up the (alpha-test) Linux read-only Macintosh
filesystem driver. This allows Linux systems to read Mac
disks, including SCSI disks (if you've got a Linux box
that can talk SCSI).
3. Mount the Mac filesystem on the PC, and copy the entire
directory into a native Linux partition. (Oddly, the Linux
box with HFS driver was _much_ faster at reading the monster
directory than the Mac was! I assume this is because UNIX-
type systems are designed to boss loads of files around for
a living, whereas Macs are built with UI issues, rather
than raw data storage, as a prime concern.)
Important note: the Mac FS should be mounted as CAP format
(columbia appletalk package), so that the UNIX fs can see
the difference between resource and data forks and finder
desktop DB information.
4. Put the Mac SCSI drive back on the Mac and reformat it.
5. Move files around on the UNIX partition until there are
less than 300 files per directory. Keep resource, data, and
finder files in the right place relative to each other for
each given file.
6. Compile up NetAtalk or CAP (two packages that let a UNIX
system act as an AppleTalk server). Export the UNIX filesystem
as a Macintosh volume.
7. On the Mac, mount the AppleTalk filesystem and copy its
contents back onto the hard disk. End of story!
This _sounds_ harder than it is; the main obstacles are (a) having a
PC with SCSI, (b) having a PC and a Mac on the same desk with a
network connection, (c) compiling the HFS driver and NetAtalk.
The advantage of having this sort of rig to hand is that it makes
recovery from really humongous filesystem messes a lot easier --
highly recommended to all you Mac network administrators out there,
if you run into this sort of problem from time to time.
NB: I suspect you could do a similar job with Windows NT instead of
Linux, but Linux is just a _little_ bit cheaper than the MS product ...
Charlie Stross [email protected]
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~charlie/
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:48:05 -0500
From: [email protected] (christopher jones)
Subject: [A] Mailing Lists
[email protected] (Anthony Helm) asked--
>Does anyone know how to search for mailing lists. Up till now I've always
>come across references to mailing lists, or been told by friends about
>certains lists. Now, though, I'd like to look for some kind of list and
>wondered how I might go about it.
It's an old address I have lying around, but for a Web listing of current
listservs out there, try
http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html
Chris Jones ([email protected]) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY
Fight Ignorance -- Whack a Politician
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 22:50:37 +0200
From: Phil Hudson
Subject: [A] Mailing lists
>From: [email protected] (Anthony Helm)
>Does anyone know how to search for mailing lists. Up till now I've always
>come across references to mailing lists, or been told by friends about
>certains lists. Now, though, I'd like to look for some kind of list and
>wondered how I might go about it.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers,
>Anthony
>[email protected]
Point your web browser at
-- Phil Hudson, IT Consultant --
-- Check out my web page at --
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:02:19 +0100
From: [email protected] (Joakim Danielson)
Subject: [Q] A neat way to Get Info...
> Tell me if this exists, s'il vous plait. Say I'm wandering around the
> finder, and I want to Get Info on a particular file. Wouldn't it be neat
> that, instead of selecting the file and going to the menu (or hitting
> command-G) I could hit control while clicking on the icon, and the Get
> Info window for it would pop up. Neat, eh?
>
> Presumably, one could tinker with an extension that does this, and make
> an executable Finder command happen with a button click. Would that not
> be cool?
There is such an extension and it's called Secret Finder Features. I found
it at MacSennse at http://harpo.precursor.mb.ca/macsense/, go from there to
their Shareware page and you find it. I've tried it for a week now and so
far it's been very helpful.
Joakim Danielson
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:46:46 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: [Q] Guesssst access on LocalTalk
I have 22 macs in my school's computer lab, 2 are file servers that
serve 10 computers each (because that is the limit). One half of the
computers have an alias that connects them to a guest folder on one server
and the other ten to the other. Unfortunately sometimes when there is some
cock-up or other users from outside the lab connect to these folders the
usual users can't connect.
I'd like to kick the superflous users - if they connect as
themselves I can see their names in the File Sharing Monitor. But if they
log on as guests I can see a list of ten guests and I'm not sure who I'm
chucking out. Is there a way of changing something so that each guest is
shown with a different name?
I thiught I might change the resources on each mac with ResEdit,
but I don't know where to look. I tried File Sharing Monitor or Sharing
Setup and I found the word Guest in the AppleShare extension. I changed it
and the change was visible when I was connecting using the Chooser - but on
the File Serving computer I was still seen as "Guest".
Anybody got any idea what I should change?
Is there a way of making more than 10 computers connect to one file
server on a normal LocalTalk Phonenet daisy-chain network?
TIA,
P/Andrzej
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:31:03 +1100
From: [email protected] (Christian Stricker)
Subject: [Q] Shutdown problem on Q700 and 7.5.1
Hi all,
I am experiencing a shutdown problem for quite some time on my Q700
running 7.5.1. Every time I shut my machine down properly (shutdown from
the special menu or shutdown program), I am still reminded at boot-up the
next time that the machine had not been shut down properly. That means that
the file Shutdown Check (invisible file on the boot drive) had not been
closed properly - and probably not only this file. I am wondering what the
problem might be - since I am experiencing other difficulties as well.
I suspect that the hard drive installed right now might not flush
the internal cache properly at shutdown. I am using a Seagate ST31230N
(V0594) and use SCSI Director II V. 3.1.1. I have tried to contact Transoft
about this and get the latest version - but they have not even the decency
to reply to customers. Sad story - but not unusual. Has anybody got a clue
as to what might be going on and what might be a good remedy?
Thanks for your help - cheers
Christian.
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:46:22 +0100
From: [email protected] (Andrzej Przybyla)
Subject: [Q] What does the AWS do
I need my students to save files to and open from the same location on our
LocalTalk network. Unfortunately if you store the files on one mac in the
networks only ten other macs can connect to it at the same time. I
understand this could be solved if I had an AWS running AppleShare server
software. Is this the only difference between the AWS's and other macs -
that they have this AppleShare server SW? Couldn't one buy the software
separately and install it on a more powerful machine (e.g. PM 7500)?
What are the other differences between a normal Mac and an AWS? TIA et rgds,
P/Andrzej
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:42:21 -0600 (CST)
From: "Anthony F. Erwin"
Subject: Apple Script Icons
When you compile an apple script it always has a standard icon,
I recently downloaded a homemade script from someone and now
all the icons are set differently for some reason. I have attempted
to find out exactly how they have changed by using ResEdit to view
the insides of several files including the downloaded files. I have
using IconArchivers to view the icons of applescripts and so forth.
None of these found anything like the icons being used by the downloaded
applescripts and I have detected no viruses using the most recent version
of Disinfectant. The script itself does not appear to alter the computer
in anyway and I can not find any other possible way to get rid of the
problem; I only want the 'standard' icons for compiled and application
scripts back. The scripts will still work fine, but even after creating
a new script and saving it to disk the 'out-of-place' icon that was in
what I downloaded is still being used.
Is there anyway I can fully delete all preferences and or anything else so
I can reinstall or do something other to get the original icons back?
I am using a PowerMac 7100/80, and have the entire contents of my computer
on CD so reinstalling almost anything would be no problem. Can anyone
suggest something? Thanks ..
-Anthony
[email protected] (217) 356-6929
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 07:57:08 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Atari virtual disk editor 1.1.1 description
AtariVD Editor allows you to create and edit virtual disks for Atari
8-bit computers (Atari 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL, 65XE, & 130XE models)
on the Macintosh. The virtual disks can be used with Rainbow, Chris Lam's
Atari 800/800XL emulator for the Mac, or with PCXFormer, a PC Atari 8-bit
emulator.
Supported Atari 8-bit disk formats:
810 Single density (720 128 byte sectors) - DOS 2.x or MyDOS 4.5.
1050 "Enhanced" density (1040 128 byte sectors) - DOS 2.x or MyDOS 4.5.
MyDOS 4.5 disks from 720-65535 128/256 byte sectors. (90KB - 16MB)
This version (1.1.1) fixes problems with conversion of Macintosh file-
names to Atari DOS 2 or MyDOS. It also adds the ability to reorganize files
in a virtual disk directory.
AtariVD Editor is freeware.
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:25:24 -0500
From: [email protected] (The Opera Ghost)
Subject: Boot from Zip/external drive (A)
Hello everyone,
Thanks to all for answering my question about booting from a Zip or other
external drive. Thanks especially to these (many) people who responded to
me by email: Terri Denman, Mel E. Martinez, Bill Campbell, Craig Dunham,
Gregory Weston, John Reynolds, Paddy Atherton, Colin Hunter, Hans Rudolf
Schelling, Dan Hofferth, Jon Fullmer and Florin Neumann. I wanted to wait
until answers finished coming in before I wrote the redux, so that is why I
am only sending this now.
Although answers varied, they approximated "hold
Command-Option-Shift-Delete at startup." Thanks to all for the help.
Christopher Ursich
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:26:38 CST
From: "Bruce A. Bromberek"
Subject: Cmd-opt-shift-delete
Thomas Zot Ljungberg wrote:
>The actual search order, according to manuals and my experience, is:
> 1. Internal floppy drive 1.
> 2. Internal floppy drive 2.
> 3. External floppy drive.
> (Note: if the mouse button is down, the floppies will be ejected.)
> 4. The unit set in the Startup Disk control panel.
> 5. Unit with SCSI ID #0 (usually the internal drive).
> 6-11. Units with SCSI ID #6, #5, #4, #3, #2, #1, in that order.
> 12. Again, unit with SCSI ID #0 (usually the internal drive).
>
>The Command-Option-Shift-Delete combination will cause the Mac to ignore
>the unit with SCSI ID #0. Note: if some other disk has been chosen as the
>Startup Disk, it will be booted from, i.e. this key combination will *not*
>cause the Mac to "forget the chosen Startup Disk", it will cause it to
>"forget SCSI ID #0".
Tom I have to disagree with your last statement. I recently created
a zip startup disk. I then used the startup disk control panel to set
the Zip disk as the startup drive. The following then happens:
1) non system disk in zip drive - computer boots from local hard disk
2) startup disk in the zip drive - coputer boots from zip drive
3) startup disk in zip drive and cmd-opt-shit-del held down - computer
boots from local hard disk.
Anyone else have experimental evidence?
Bruce Bromberek - [email protected] - U of MN - ChE & Mat Sci
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:58:28 +0500
From: [email protected] (Almaty Int'l School)
Subject: Eudora/MailShare to UUPC 3.1? & MacTCP Ideas?
16 Feb 96
Anyone who can help,
I have a small LocalTalk networked lab and we use email alot. I use Eudora
to read and write mail and I want to use MacTCP to send the mail to the
main email Macintosh. MacTCP works great since the computers aren't always
connected (via Appleshare) to the main email computer. MailShare recieves
the mail nicely but I have to get it to the spool folder for UUPC 3.1 to
use when it connects to our dial up uucp connection here in Central Asia.
Any ideas on another program to recieve the mail other than MailShare, or a
program or way to get the mail from MailShare to the spool folder for UUPC
3.1 to send.
Waiting,
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:53:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Don Farnum)
Subject: Extension Informant VIRUS
So, what does the MERRY XMAS VIRUS in "Extension Informant" do? I also
found it and fear I may have been infected.
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:32:16 PST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Good SMTP server software?
If I wanted to run an SMTP (i.e., Internet mail) server on my Mac, what free or
shareware program would you recommend?
(Note that I'm not talking about ways to access existing mail accounts in
existing servers. I want to run a server, and create mail accounts within it.)
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:04:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Haim Forgacs
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #52
For Veronique,
The same happened to me with a AV17 (used with a 7500/100). It was a
hardware problem, they had to replace a part. The only thing, I would try
before that, is to reset PRAM (You now, restart with Option-Command-R-P
held down, hopefully you have at least four fingers on your left hand,
and wait for at least two pings).
Good luck
Chaim Forgacs
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 15:43:50 CST
From: Pat Ullmann
Subject: locking Fonts folder
>Quick, strange question. Does anyone know of a utility, shareware or
>commercial, that will let me lock the Fonts folder under System 7.x? I
>need to prevent people from adding and removing fonts from the systems I
>manage.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Hines, Manager of Advertising Technology
>The Courier-Journal
>[email protected]
There are many Mac security packages on the market offering many
different levels of access control to individual volumes, folders,
and files. Some one, or all, of these might do the job. (Names
that come to mind are FileGuard and UltraShield, made by ASD and
UsrEZ respectively. I've had dealings with both companies and been
pleased. IMO, both would be worth a call to see if their product
will do what you want.) (No, I don't work for either.
)You *might* also be able to do this with FolderBolt Pro, which
offers a "read-only" folder locking option. It's possible that
this would enable the system still to access the fonts while pre-
venting other folks from messing with them. Or maybe not--this is
just speculation. Also, I believe that FolderBolt is not without
'back doors' unless you encrypt the information in the folder as
well as locking it, which of course is something you couldn't do
with your fonts.
Hope this helps.
Pat
Pat Ullmann ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:48:24 +1100
From: [email protected] (Bill Stanford)
Subject: Mailing Lists
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #52 [email protected] (Anthony Helm) wrote:
>Does anyone know how to search for mailing lists. Up till now I've always
>come across references to mailing lists, or been told by friends about
>certains lists. Now, though, I'd like to look for some kind of list and
>wondered how I might go about it.
Anthony, I think it would be too much to say that anybody _knows_ about
this topic, but there are starts and approaches...
I'd begin by distinguishing between the large group of lists distributed
via BITNET, usually via listserv programs; and Internet mailing lists.
There's an easily getable master list of listserv mailing lists: here's the
details, from an appendix attached to this list itself:
===============
FINDING A LIST TO SUBSCRIBE TO
Bitnet lists are usually distributed by a program named LISTSERV (though
there are others such as LISTPROC or MajorDomo). LISTSERV and the other
mailing programs are accessible via email...this point is very important,
as usually to operate a program on a remote computer we must have Telnet,
which not all internet connections offer. So just to repeat: LISTSERV and
the other mailing programs are accessible via email!
To send a command to a LISTSERV, send an email to a correctly addressed
BITNET computer, to its LISTSERV account e.g. [email protected] or
[email protected], with your own return address and no subject. In
the body of the email a command is written. Commands are expressions like
SUBSCRIBE, SIGNOFF, LIST, SET, SEND etc.
I'm interested , so how do I get a list of the groups that are available...
The basic way is to send an email to [email protected], no subject,
and in the body of the mail write: LIST GLOBAL. The full list is very
long, and will come into your mail box broken up into about a dozen files.
Combine these in a word processor document.
===============
And once you've done this you can use Find to look for topics of interest
(there are about 7,000 lists, there is usually something here which fits).
For the Interent, the newsgroups news.lists,news.answers can be useful, and
there's a FAQ at rtfm.mit maintained by [email protected] (Stephanie da
Silva) which is a list of internet lists. But the web is better for
searching for these lists. You could try:
http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/listserv.html
http://nimrod.mit.edu/common/reference/tools.html
http://www.shelby.com/pub/shelby/
http://tile.net/listserv/
BITNET is neat, it's all in one document. But searching for lists on the
Internet is a bit chaotic, like the 'net itself, heck, like life itself...
Hope this helps. Good luck!
--Bill Stanford||[email protected]
"Men build scales, but the Gods blow in the lighter pan"-- (--Gene Wolfe)
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:58:59 +0100
From: [email protected] (Kay Johansson)
Subject: Multipel monitors
Hi everyone,
We have been asked to do a TV gameshow where there will be 6 monitors
"popping" up words on. For exampel: Mr A says "I take word number 2", then
monitor nuber 2 will show a word. These procedure will go on until he
has got the right answer.
Our problem: Is there a way of doing this with one Mac. The idea we have
come up with is that you have a computer with 6 Nubus slots containing
"monitor cards" (I acctually don't know the english word). Then we can
do the presentation in Director.
If someone has a really smart solution or might be interested in writing
a program for this, we would be very happy. BTW the monitors are 28=B4.
Kay Johansson
Audio Visual Impact
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:28:22 +0100
From: Matti Zemack
Subject: Performa 5200 bugchecker.
Hi,
About a half year ago there circulated a program that checked the 5200 to
see if it had a strange bug(?) in it.
Now, when I need the program it's impossible to find it.
(And the apple-server shurfe doesn't make it easier finding it...)
Please mail replies directly to me...
Thanks for all help in my search!!!!
/Matti Zemack [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:48:42 -0600
From: Todd Mogilner
Subject: Printing Problems Solved with HP 660C???
NO, they were not. I have now had 3 printers and have had it. I have
dealt with Hewlitt Packard now for the last month without any real
satisfaction. The people at HP are really trying to help me with this
problem. I think there tech support is really good, but no matter how
good the tech support is, it can't fix this printer. I would like the
people who contacted me previously to contact me again (I lost the
addresses).
I guess what I want to know is what are people's experiences with HP. The
thing I don't want to continue to happen anymore is that I keep
exchanging this printer for other ones and keep running into the printer
problems that I have been having. How do you deal with a company when you
are in this situation. (Please note I don't necessarily think that HP is
going to cheat me or hassle me, but I want to know how to handle it).
Any advice would be appreciated
Todd Mogilner
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:18:22 -0400
From: C+E Behme
Subject: Q: Is there a gentle way to go with forms and cgi's?
Greetings!
My provider runs a Unix OSF-1 system, and I - doh! - use a Mac.
I am relatively new at operating my own site, and would ove to get some
simple feed-back on how I sould/could intergrate a few response forms
into my site, without having to go deep into the books.
The site is:
It is a real estate page with quite a few example properties shown in
the "property' section.
Here are the questions:
1) As I currently use the , there is no way for me to find
out, if the response resulted from a USENET post, or directly from the
site itself, which would help me gauge the efficacy of the site.
2) It would be nice to be able to categorize some of the requests, not
quite sure yet what criteria to use, either by individual property, or
any other criterium. But that could come later, I guess.
Are there any out-of-the-box CGIs, which I could add to my site folder,
and which would do that sort of thing in conjunction with an html form
integrated into the current page?
If you have time to visit the page, would it even make sense to try
this?
Any suggestion - please, understand that I am quite illiterate in these
matters - would be greatly appreciated! This would include pointing me
somewhere else.
Finally, I am using Fetch-3 to upload to my site. However, Fetch does
not allow me to delete obsolete items. I have to e-mail delete request
to my provider, which sometimes takes a week!
Is there an ftp utility, which would make this possible?
Thank you for your time, folks!
Christina Behme
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 15:17:15 +1000
From: [email protected] (Barry O'Rourke)
Subject: Question Word 5.1
Can someone please advise me of the procedure for changing the COLOUR of
the paragraph marks, space symbols, tab markers etc in Word 5.1. They are
currently grey (default??) and very difficult to see with black printing.
Thank you.
--
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:26:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: SCOTT
Subject: Read Me files
What is a program that I can use to distribute read only
readme files that will launch either by them selves or with simple
text and display pictures.
Scott Thomas -- SUNY Cortland Macintosh Computing
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 06:33:46 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: Spell Checker
Greg,
Thunder 7 is what you are looking for. It performs spell checking while you
type and/or of the document in any application you have running. It also
checks for grammar things, such as lack of a cap at the beginning of a
sentence, double caps at the beginning of a word, etc. It also contains a
Thesaurus (with definitions) and a glossary where you can keep commonly used
items (such as your signature) and access with code letters. For instance, my
signature lines appear when I type "mhlx."
Works great. I got it about a year ago from the address below, but I recall
some comment onLine a while back saying they had moved, or sold it, or
something. Hope not. I don't know how I would survive without it.
They are: Baseline Publishing, P.O. 38629, Germantown, TN 38183-0629. Ph -
901 527-2501 FAX 901 523-1232
Cheers
Joe Holly
MacHolly Land
[email protected]
-----+++ MESSAGE +++-----
>>I am looking for a spell checker application that will work with Eudora. Is
there such a program that would check spelling online or off? If so could
someone tell me where I could get it? Please reply to
Thanks
Greg. The Command-Option-Shift-Delete combination will cause the Mac to ignore
> the unit with SCSI ID #0. Note: if some other disk has been chosen as
> the Startup Disk, it will be booted from, i.e. this key combination will
> *not* cause the Mac to "forget the chosen Startup Disk", it will cause
> it to "forget SCSI ID #0".
That is incorrect. Command-shift-option-delete will bypass the current
startup device, irrespective of whether it is the internal drive or the
drive set with the Startup Disk control panel. Anyone with a bootable
external disk can verify this: use the Startup Disk control panel to set
the external drive as the boot device, then restart keeping the above
combination pressed.
--
Florin Neumann
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 10:09:06 -0600
From: Lanny Chambers
Subject: System 7.5.1 Conflicts?
>Just as a point of interest, I took a look yesterday at The Conflict
>Compendium web page, having seen a posting to the effect that it
>had placed highly in a ranking of computer-related sites. This page
>lists a total of 22 known conflicts/problems for system 7.1-7.1.2,
>and a total of *161* for 7.5-7.5.1. (The total increases to 228 if
>7.5.2 is included.) Yes, I realize that this is not a complete or
>scientifically proven collection of problems and that other variables
>enter in, but it is a good general indicator of the relative stability,
>in the real world, of 7.1.x. vs. 7.5.x.
Pat, I think you're misinterpreting the data: the CCC page only implies
that those peoblems were *observed* on Macs running 7.5.x, not that they
were *caused* by that version of the MacOS. The reason so many entries
mention 7.5 is simply that most of us are trying to stay up to date, and
that for some time now new Macs have come with 7.5 pre-installed.
>My gripe, however, is not that Apple created 7.5.x, but that they're
>forcing us to run it. You are correct in that until recently, Apple
>was very good about forward/backward OS compatability, but that
>doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Sorry, but time marches on. No way I'd give up my Power Mac just so I
could run System 7.0, or 6.0, or... It's miraculous to me that 7.5 will
run at all on two totally different hardware platforms (68K and PPC).
That 7.5 is required on new Macs because it alone contains code to
address the latest hardware developments is very easy for me to
accept--the only alternative is a halt to progress. Of course, you can
always buy an old Plus, run 6.0.8, and happily ignore the future--but
please stand off to one side, so you won't get trampled by the rest of us
as we move forward.
In my experience, 7.5.1 is at least as stable as any earlier release,
although it's not always trivial to get it that way. Proper installation
is very important (see for the details).
But the extra functionality is worth the effort to me, especially as more
and more application software is written to take advantage of its
benefits.
Lanny Chambers ([email protected])
Creative Services, St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page at:
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Date: 28 Feb 1996 17:12:31 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: system 7.5.3
is the system 7.5 update 2.0 the same as system 7.5.3?
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:07:54 +0100
From: [email protected] (Bill Rausch)
Subject: system freezes
Pat Ullmann ([email protected]) said:
>BTW, what system are you using? The above machines are all using 7.1.2.
>If you're using 7.5. or later, all bets are off--it freezes all the time
>anyway.
Say what? I've been running System 7.5.1 on several boxes with no problems
for quite a while now. A variety of system with/without ethernet, external
drives, CDs, modems, etc. with lots of inits/control panels without problems.
Machines will often go weeks without rebooting. I think System 7.5.1 is
very stable.
Bill
Bill Rausch, Mac and Unix User and Programmer
613 Lynnwood Ct, Richland, WA 99352 509-375-5147
[email protected] [email protected]
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