Re: Problem with Quake II...

1999-01-28 Thread Roderick Schertler
On 28 Jan 1999 11:35:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) said:
>
> As far as I know, there are no Debian packages for Quake II 3.20 yet.
> [...]  I've cced the maintainer to see if they've got any comment if
> new packages are coming.

Thanks, I hadn't realized it was out.  (I don't actually play this game
any more, I've been looking for somebody to take over the package for a
while.)

I'll try to put out a package of the new version tonight or this weekend.

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Re: Mon

1998-03-11 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:59:48 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) said:
> 
> 1) Is df.pm debianized?

Nope, and it's my fault.  I posted my intent to package it to debian-devel,
found that the module has a copyright which accidentally prohibits anybody
from distributing it at all, then forgot to contact the author about the
copyright!  I'll write him right now, I hope he gets back in time for me to
get the package into hamm before the freeze.

> 2) Is tcp_scan part of a debian package yet?

This is reputed to come with SATAN.  I don't think there's a package of
SATAN or of just tcp_scan available.  I haven't looked into packaging it.
The only monitors which require it are telnet.monitor and tcp.monitor,
BTW.

Alternately, one can probably use netcat to do what tcp_scan does, at
least for the simple uses mon puts it to.  I might find out what the
those tcp_scan args to and supply nc-based variants.

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Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Roderick Schertler
If anybody who has this problem with quake2 crashing at load time with
svgalib but not with X figures out what's going wrong, please let me
know.  I can't reproduce it here, so I can't debug it myself.

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Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 09:53:56 +0200, "Jaakko Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Roderick Schertler wrote:
>>
>> Try
>> 
>> quake2 +set s_initsound 0
>> 
>> instead.
> 
>  Will try that. Is there a list of those commands somewhere?

There are lists of console commands and settable variables at

http://www.planetquake.com/f176/
http://www.quake2.com/tq2cc/

> Or some command to list them?

`cvarlist' and `cmdlist', but these provide no explanation.  The web
pages are your best bet.

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Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-08 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 22:18:23 +0200, "Jaakko Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
>  Just tried 3.14a, and it somehow doesn't take -nosound or -noaudio,
>  which make Q2 bomb because of broken sound in 2.1.88 and 2.1.89 won't
>  compile cleanly, so here we go again :)

I think all the switches-as-such are gone, only console commands (via +)
work now.  Try

quake2 +set s_initsound 0

instead.

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Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-06 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:34:45 +0200, "Jaakko Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Has anyone got Q2 working in hamm with ref_soft or ref_gl?

I don't have any concrete advice, as both of these renderers just work
for me and you sound to have tried many variations.  I want to ask,
though, if you're using the Debian packages.  The only complaint I've
received about them so far was from a person who was trying to use the
q2test pak file with the quake2 binary.  I can't think of anything
spectacular that I'm doing in the prepackaged version the lack of which
would cause your problem, though.

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Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-25 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) 
said:
> 
> My only problem is that echoing the \a twice runs them together to
> sound like one... I would like a double beep, so i used `runq;runq'
> to get a suitable pause in between beeps... If anyone has a better
> idea :)

perl >/dev/tty1 -we '$| = 1;
print "\a";
select undef, undef, undef, 0.25;
print "\a"'

The 0.25 indicates a pause of 0.25 seconds.

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Apache 1.1 docs

1997-08-28 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:27:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) said:
> jim writes:
>> 
>> And more broadly speaking, it seems that the documentation actually
>> needed to run apache was not included in the distribution.
> 
> There is a apache-doc package containing the documentation.

Not for 1.1, the version in stable, which is what Jim was talking about.
The lack of documentation for this version is a real hassle.  Apache
didn't distribute docs with 1.1, they just referred you to their web
site.  The problem is that they don't have documentation for 1.1 on the
web site any more (what's there is the 1.2 docs with some but not all of
the changes between 1.1 and 1.2 pointed out as such).

Apache, I've searched your web and FTP servers but haven't found a copy
of the 1.1 docs.  Do you have a copy of them we could have to package
with a distribution of that server?

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Apache 1.1 docs

1997-08-05 Thread Roderick Schertler
I've switched the web server here from Freebsd to bo, and in the process
from Apache 1.2 to 1.1.  Does anyone know if it's possible to get a copy
of the old 1.1 Apache docs?  They aren't distributed with the source and
the current docs on the web page don't document all of the differences
between 1.2 and 1.1.

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Re: nmh and mail spool permissions

1997-07-28 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:46:30 -0400, "Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> After looking at the "strace" I see [inc] is trying to create lockfiles
> in /var/spool/mail/ which is forbidden by the permission bits.  [...]
> what is the correct permissions for /var/spool/mail?

/var/spool/mail should be mode 3775 and owned by root.mail.  nmh's inc
program should be group mail set-gid and compiled with MAILGROUP defined.

slocal should not be set-gid mail because it was not written to be
set-gid.  Users who use slocal have to use an alternate mail drop
somewhere that they have write permission to.

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Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

1997-07-24 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:49:15 -0400, Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> The packages in bo-updates are there for testing by everyone, namely
> the testing group, [...]

I'd be glad to help test these packages, but downloading and installing them
by hand is a hassle (mainly given that I don't use all those packages).  It
would be great if there were a Packages file in that directory.

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Re: ntp ... sets my time an hour off

1997-07-21 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:00:57 -0400, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> I installed xntp the other day and it sets my time an hour behind the
> actual time.. when I type 'date -R' is says my time zone is -0500
> which is correct (EST)...

I don't know the cause of your problem, but -0500 isn't correct for
Eastern time.  Since daylight savings is in effect now it should be
saying -0400 (and date -R does say that here, where I've also got xntp
running).

What is in your /etc/timezone file?

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Re: PPP options.ttyXX comments incorrect

1997-07-21 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:17:43 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:
> 
> # Edit the following line so that the first IP address
> # mentioned is the ip address of the serial port while the second
> # is the IP address of your host
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is wrong?  Either that or something is
> really screwed up here.  When I tried this setup it didn't work.  When
> I listed the host first, and then the serial port, it did work.

You're right, the comment has it backwards.  I've just put in a bug
report.

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Re: cua vs ttyS and diald

1997-07-18 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:50:26 +0100, Alan Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> I don't have any ttyS0 device.  Therefore how do I setup a ttyS0
> device for dialing out?

Run

/dev/MAKEDEV ttyS0

as root.

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Re: Will there be a debian-1.3-fixed directory soon?

1997-06-17 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:38:44 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Until these bo-updates packages have been well tested they are not
> candidates for bo-fixed.

Is there a Packages file I can be downloading to help test these updates?
I'm using dpkg-ftp on stable, non-free and contrib right now and the
packages in bo-updates aren't being picked up (rightly, given what you're
saying).  I don't want to switch to unstable particularly, but I'd be
glad to add my bit of extra coverage for updates ultimately slated for
bo.

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Re: Simple sendmail question.

1997-06-17 Thread Roderick Schertler
On 17 Jun 97 09:18:48 -0500, Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Initially the only need to have a host that will pick up mail if our 
> primary server is down or busy then forward it on when the other 
> system is back up.

You don't have to configure sendmail at all for this to work, it's
entirely automatic.  You just have to set up your MX records properly
(with your backup host as an MX host with a higher precedence number).

I see that seitz.com currently has a single MX record with precedence
20.  You just need to add an additional MX record for the mail
backup relay with a higher precedence number, eg 30.

> When going thru the sendmailconfig it asks if it should accept mail
> for other hosts by giving their name in this case tell it seitz.com .

This question is asking if you want to deliver any additional domains
locally on this machine.  That's not what you're trying to do, so don't
list seitz.com in response here.

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permissions of CD-ROM device

1997-06-16 Thread Roderick Schertler
I've got a working sound card and CD-ROM drive again for the first time
in a while, and I'd like to set the permissions up so I can play CDs on
it without being root.  The drive is an IDE device, /dev/hdc, it's
currently group disk.

Is the standard way to set this up to make the device node group cdrom
and put myself in that group?

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Re: help with perl

1997-05-27 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Tue, 27 May 1997 09:32:23 +1000 (EST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:
>>
> One advantage of the db file is that comments are stripped out by
> makemap which means i can have as many comments as i like in the
> source text but it wont slow down the script at all [...]

You could get the same result by preprocessing any configuration file to
remove comments and blank lines.

> Also, [using a text rather than a DB file] there will also be the
> overhead of opening & closing the file for every URL, [...]

You don't have to reopen it for a text file any more than you do for a
DB file.  Keep the file open and seek() to the beginning before the
loop.  The preprocessor just has to be careful to overwrite the file in
place instead of removing or moving the old one out of the way.

> [...] plus the overhead of parsing each line into it's two fields...

DB has its own overhead, though.  Since you're always scanning the file
linearly I think the overhead will be less with the text file.  It's
just my instinct.  If I were writing the application and the speed were
important to me I'd benchmark both approaches.

> [...] - whoever invented gif animations should be drawn and
> quartered very slowly over a hot fire.

Amen.

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Re: help with perl

1997-05-26 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Mon, 26 May 1997 23:40:35 +1000 (EST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:
>
> The database is a .db file created with 'makemap hash redir  from [:space:]-delimited source input like the following:
[...]
> //.*riddler.com/Commonwealth/bin/statdeploy.* //www.taz.net.au/blank_ad.gif

The problem is that makemap downcases the keys by default so Commonwealth
is commonwealth in the map.  Use the -f flag when building the map to
disable this behavior.

Since you're always scanning the db linearly, though, using a DB map
isn't buying you anything.  I'd just read the patterns from the text
file directly.

>   $out="" ;
>   $found = 0 ;
>   while ((($key,$record) = each %redir_db) && ! $found) {
>   if (($url =~ /$key/)) {
>   $out = $url ;
>   $out =~ s/$key/$record/ ;
>   $found = 1 ;
>} ;
>   } ;
>
>   if ($debug) {
>   print $url, "==>" ;
>   } ;
>   print $out, "\n" ;

Gratuitous unsolicited style tip #1:  Don't put semicolons after a
closing brace except for do and eval blocks, and sub ref constructors.

Gratuitous unsolicited style tip #2:  This code would more idiomatically
be

print "$url==>" if $debug;
while (($key, $record) = each %redir_db) {
if ($url =~ s/$key/$record/) {
print $url;
last;
}
}
print "\n";

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Re: automatically tracking just a few unstable packages

1997-05-21 Thread Roderick Schertler
I wrote:
>>
>> My system is mostly bo, but I've installed a couple of packages out
>> of hamm.  I have my dselect access method set to ftp and pointing at
>> the bo Packages files.  I'd like a way to know when the hamm packages
>> I'm tracking are updated.  Does the system have a way to do that?

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded:
>
> There's a package in the net section of unstable called ftpwatch which
> sounds like it could do what you want.

Thanks, I looked at it, but unless I'm missing something I don't think
it's appropriate.  It would need to watch for files by pattern, but I
think it can only watch whole directories or perhaps files by name (and
I'm not sure that it can watch files by name).

"Aaron M. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded:
>
> I believe dftp has what you are looking for.  [...]

I found the dftp manual hard to follow so I might have missed something,
but I also don't see how dftp can be made to help me.

I wrote a little script to do what I want.  It checks the available and
status files to see what packages are installed which are newer than
what are available (and therefore I manually installed from hamm) and
then it reads the hamm packages files and reports what newer versions of
these modules are available.  I then wrote a short wrapper script to
fetch the hamm packages files and run the main script.

Here are the scripts in case anyone else might find them useful.

#!/bin/sh
# This is a shell archive (produced by GNU sharutils 4.1).
# To extract the files from this archive, save it to some FILE, remove
# everything before the `!/bin/sh' line above, then type `sh FILE'.
#
# Made on 1997-05-21 12:09 EDT by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# Source directory was `/home/roderick/bin/linux'.
#
# Existing files will *not* be overwritten unless `-c' is specified.
#
# This shar contains:
# length mode   name
# -- -- --
#   2519 -r-xr-xr-x tracked-packages
#   2041 -r-xr-xr-x tracked-packages-run
#
touch -am 1231235999 $$.touch >/dev/null 2>&1
if test ! -f 1231235999 && test -f $$.touch; then
  shar_touch=touch
else
  shar_touch=:
  echo
  echo 'WARNING: not restoring timestamps.  Consider getting and'
  echo "installing GNU \`touch', distributed in GNU File Utilities..."
  echo
fi
rm -f 1231235999 $$.touch
#
# = tracked-packages ==
if test -f 'tracked-packages' && test X"$1" != X"-c"; then
  echo 'x - skipping tracked-packages (file already exists)'
else
  echo 'x - extracting tracked-packages (text)'
  sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'tracked-packages' &&
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
X
# $Id: tracked-packages,v 1.3 1997-05-21 12:07:05-04 roderick Exp $
#
# Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X
# This program checks the Debian available and status files to see what
# packages are installed which are newer than what are available (and
# therefore were manually installed from a newer release) and then it
# reads some given packages files (presumable from the newer release)
# and reports what newer versions of the tracked modules are available.
X
use FileHandle();
use Proc::WaitStat  qw(close_die);
use Sort::Versions  qw(versioncmp);
X
(my $Me = $0) =~ s-.*/--;
X
my $Available   = '/var/lib/dpkg/available';
my $Debug   = 0;
my $Exit= 0;
my $Status  = '/var/lib/dpkg/status';
X
sub xmess {
Xpush @_, " $!\n" if $_[$#_] =~ /:$/;
X"$Me: ", @_;
}
X
sub xwarn {
Xwarn xmess @_;
X$Exit ||= 1;
}
X
sub xdie {
Xdie xmess @_;
}
X
sub parse {
Xlocal $_ = shift;
Xmy ($pkg, $version);
X
Xchomp;
X/^Package:\s*(\S+)\s*$/im or xdie "bad status line:\n$_";
X$pkg = $1;
X/^Version:\s*(\S+)\s*$/im or xdie "bad status line:\n$_";
X$version = $1;
Xreturn $pkg, $version;
}
X
sub main {
Xmy (%have, $pkg, $version, %tracking, $file);
X
X@ARGV or ! -t  or xdie "no packages files specified\n";
Xopen STATUS, $Status   or xdie "can't read $Status:";
Xopen AVAIL, $Available or xdie "can't read $Available:";
X
XSTATUS->input_record_separator('');
XAVAIL->input_record_separator('');
X
Xwhile () {
X   if (/^Status:.*\sinstalled\b/im) {
X   ($pkg, $version) = parse $_;
X   $have{$pkg} = $version;
X   }
X}
Xclose_die \*STATUS, $Status;
X
Xwhile () {
X   ($pkg, $version) = parse $_;
X   if (exists $have{$pkg} && versioncmp($have{$pkg}, $version) > 0) {
X   $tracking{$pkg} = $have{$pkg};
X   printf &qu

automatically tracking just a few unstable packages

1997-05-20 Thread Roderick Schertler
My system is mostly bo, but I've installed a couple of packages out of
hamm.  I have my dselect access method set to ftp and pointing at the
bo Packages files.  I'd like a way to know when the hamm packages I'm
tracking are updated.  Does the system have a way to do that?

If not I'll write a script for it.  I'm thinking to compare the installed
packages with the versions listed in the available file.  For each package
which has a newer version installed than is available the script will
check the unstable packages files and report any newer versions.  Is there
a more direct way to do what I want?

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Re: mh security

1997-04-26 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:41:10 -0400, Jason Killen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> [...] I changed inc and msgchk to rwxr-xr-x (instead of rwxr-sr-x).
> Does anyone know if what I did could create any problems??

Yes, it will prevent MH users from reading new mail.

> Did I fix any problems???

No known problems.

> It seems to me that as long as I own my /var/spool/mail file inc and
> msgchk don't need to be suid.

Not so, the system uses .lock files for locking.  inc needs to be setgid
mail so it can create the /var/spool/mail/foo.lock file.

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globally override/fool dpkg dependency mechanism?

1997-04-23 Thread Roderick Schertler
I do Perl development and I like to keep a current binary as
/usr/bin/perl so that it gets a good workout.  How should I tell the
dpkg system that perl is available even though I don't have the standard
perl package installed?

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Re: Questions for some nice zsh examples

1997-04-02 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:27:54 +0200, Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Could someone please mail me some [zsh] examples to start with?

See /usr/doc/examples/zsh.

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Re: xsession-errors

1997-03-27 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:18:07 + (GMT), "R.M. Hinkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help, I get the following in .xsession-errors
> 
> xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ 
> -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE [...]

I don't know if this is related to what you're seeing, but this happened
to me after I'd removed the Virtual setting from the Display section I
was using of my Screen definition in /etc/X11/XF86Config and until I
also removed the corresponding ViewPort setting.

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Re: DEC 21140 ethernet card ifconfig failure: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again"

1997-03-21 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:50:48 +0100 (MET), Martin Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:
>>
>> + ifconfig eth0 38.233.80.66 netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 38.233.80.79
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again

Thanks for the replies.  I don't know what the problem was specifically,
but the card started working after I'd compiled my own stripped down
2.0.27 kernel.

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DEC 21140 ethernet card ifconfig failure: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again"

1997-03-20 Thread Roderick Schertler
I'm installing Debian (1.2) for the first time.  The base install didn't
seem to have any problems, but my ethernet card isn't being configured
properly after the system comes up.  The card works in this machine
under Freebsd and Windows 95.

The card is an SMC 9332, it's a PCI card based on the DEC 21140 chip.  I
put "tulip" in /etc/modules.  When the module is loaded it displays

tulip.c:v0.10 8/11/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+0.72 4/17/96 http://www.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp/~linux/tulip
+0.01 10/24/96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2.1.7)
eth0: smc9332 (DEC 21140 Tulip) at 0xfc80, 00:00:c0:bb:08:bf, IRQ 9

but there's an error from ifconfig when /etc/init.d/network runs.  When
I run it by hand as root it looks like this:

+ ifconfig eth0 38.233.80.66 netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 38.233.80.79
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again

If I run "ifconfig eth0" at this point it shows:

ifconfig:
eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:BB:08:BF
  inet addr:38.233.80.66  Bcast:38.233.80.79  Mask:255.255.255.240
  BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfc80

If I just run "ifconfig eth0 up" it gives me the same "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try
again" error.

At first I specified all the modules I thought I'd want to the install
program, these ended up in /etc/modules.  After the card failed to
configure properly I tried commenting out all the modules except the one
for my ethernet card, but this didn't seem to change the symptoms.  (I
also tried leaving the tulip module out entirely, but then ifconfig said
that eth0 didn't exist.)

Can anyone spot what the problem is?  Please let me know if you need
more information.  I tried checking the ethernet howto and the bug
report subjects and the mail archives (searching for "smc" and "tulip").

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Roderick Schertler
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