RE: Running MetaCard based CGIs

2001-01-25 Thread Simon Lord 

It's up and running.  I'm still piecing the site together which will 
give everyone all the details and info about what mchhtpd does, how 
it works etc.  Unfortunately I spent this entire week renovating my 
office to accommodate the every growing hardware required to do our 
day to day jobs...soon, we promise.


>Is this up and running yet? I'd like to check it out if you can post to the
>list when it is?
>
>>  -Original Message-
>>  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Lord
>>  Sent: Friday, 12 January 2001 3:00 PM
>>  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>  Subject: RE: Running MetaCard based CGIs
>>
>>
>>  We'll be launching this type of service very soon ourselves.  Testing
>>  has been completed on an in-house server and we'll be moving it to
>>  the web server next week.  Testing pages will soon be made public
>>  where the list can see what mchttp can do.
>>
>>  We have lots of *goodies* planned for this, and if Kevin offers the
>>  same service then we'll just have ourselves some good'ol competition!
>>
>>
>>  >I would be very interested but haven't got much money to spend.
>>  The problem
>>  >is I don't know how to do it yet so I really need some way to practice
>>  >before I go telling clients what I can do. It would be good if you could
>>  >host a practice CGI bin or a demo script that we could post to
>>  and recieve
>>  >email results from. Once I learn I will be able to get money for
>>  this kind
>>  >of service. Sorry for being overly demanding but I think there would be
>>  >others in my situation.
>>  >
>>  >-Original Message-
>>  >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>  >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
>>  >Sent: Friday, 12 January 2001 9:35 AM
>>  >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>  >Subject: Running MetaCard based CGIs
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >Hi,
>>  >
>>  >We are considering launching a service to allow hosting of MC based CGIs.
>>  >If anyone would be interested in such a service, please could
>>  they email me
>>  >off list with a brief list of the sort of requirments you might
>>  expect.  How
>>  >much would you expect to pay?  What would the CGI do?  Would you want to
>>  >host your entire site with a domain name pointing to our IP
>>  address or would
>>  >you host the site elsewhere and refer CGI requests to our site?
>>  What kind
>>  >of disk and processor requirements might be involved?
>>  >
>>  >The idea is still up in the air, just trying to nail down what kind of a
>>  >demand there might be out there.  If this is something you might be
>>  >interested in then please do send me an email - obviously no demand = no
>>  >service! :-) Thanks for any info anyone provides...
>>  >
>>  >Regards,
>>  >
>>  >Kevin
>>  >
>>  >Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>  >Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing).
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>>  Cheers,
>>  Simon
>>
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Windows Question...

2001-01-25 Thread Richard MacLemale 

On the Mac, you have type and creator settings to tell the Mac which app
created which file.  On Windows, you have those 2 or 3 character DOS
extensions (MetaCard's being ".mc").  My question is this:  If I create an
app for Windows, what do I do about the DOS extension?  How do I know what
has and has not been used?  What do I have permission to use?  Apple has a
database online of creators.  Does Microsoft have a similar database for
Windows and DOS extensions?  Do I have to fart around with modifying the
registry?  Yuck.  Thanks in advance for any replies...


:)
Richard MacLemale
Instructional Technology Specialist
James W. Mitchell High School


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Re: Free movable images and players

2001-01-25 Thread David Bovill 

Sounds like a good and useful "group". I would be happy to work on it with
you, as the project I am working on involves a similar feature...  that's
unless Scott is planing to implement embedded images in fields within the
next few weeks -:)

Feel free to mail me off list.

> From: "Sjoerd Op 't Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:00:45 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Free movable images and players
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Someone wants to step over to MetaCard from Delphi, but he wants to be sure
> that one thing is possible in MetaCard before that.
> 
> He wants to have a text field in which you can 'insert' pictures and movies,
> and move and scale them freely through space. A workaround is legal.
> 
> In a perfect world, MetaCard fields would accept 'real' HTML, but
> unfortunately they don't. So, I thought of this workaround:
> To have a hidden field which contains the whole text, and make other
> fields over which I spread the text like this: (set your font to a
> mono-spaced one, like Courier)
> ¬
> |  Field 1  |
> |   |
> ¬
> |  Image 1  |  Field 2  |
> |   |   |
> |   |---¬
> |   |  Image 2  |
> ¬
> |  Field 3 | I|  F  |
> |  | 3|  4  |
> -
> This is everything but a neat solution, and it will stay to have some
> bugs, and will be very difficult to program, but maybe doable.
> 
> Does anyone else have an other solution (workaround, external) for this?
> 
> Are there other with the same problem so that we can share the solution and/
> or the work?
> 
> Regards and thank for any help in advance,
> Sjoerd
> 
> 
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Re: Free movable images and players

2001-01-25 Thread David Bovill 

Sounds like a good and useful "group". I would be happy to work on it with
you, as the project I am working on involves a similar feature...  that's
unless Scott is planing to implement embedded images in fields within the
next few weeks -:)

Feel free to mail me off list.

> From: "Sjoerd Op 't Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:00:45 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Free movable images and players
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Someone wants to step over to MetaCard from Delphi, but he wants to be sure
> that one thing is possible in MetaCard before that.
> 
> He wants to have a text field in which you can 'insert' pictures and movies,
> and move and scale them freely through space. A workaround is legal.
> 
> In a perfect world, MetaCard fields would accept 'real' HTML, but
> unfortunately they don't. So, I thought of this workaround:
> To have a hidden field which contains the whole text, and make other
> fields over which I spread the text like this: (set your font to a
> mono-spaced one, like Courier)
> ¬
> |  Field 1  |
> |   |
> ¬
> |  Image 1  |  Field 2  |
> |   |   |
> |   |---¬
> |   |  Image 2  |
> ¬
> |  Field 3 | I|  F  |
> |  | 3|  4  |
> -
> This is everything but a neat solution, and it will stay to have some
> bugs, and will be very difficult to program, but maybe doable.
> 
> Does anyone else have an other solution (workaround, external) for this?
> 
> Are there other with the same problem so that we can share the solution and/
> or the work?
> 
> Regards and thank for any help in advance,
> Sjoerd
> 
> 
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RE: launch browser problem

2001-01-25 Thread Monte Goulding 

Yes very useful and one to put in the scrap book.

> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Rossi
> Sent: Friday, 26 January 2001 8:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: launch browser problem
>
>
> Recently, I wrote:
>
> >> FWIW, I've found you have to do a lot more jumping through
> hoops than what
> >> is available in the sample stack due to quirky behavior of
> >> Internet Explorer
> >> and possibly DDE in general.  The problem is IE doesn't always
> make itself
> >> known to the appsopen external on certain systems, so in my
> case, I had to
> >> use a combination of the launch command and DDE to make sure URLs got
> >> launched appropriately in this browser.
> >>
> >> Also, this may be a Windows thing or MetaCard thing, but rapid
> successive
> >> attempts to launch a URL can fail, making the launch process
> useless and
> >> requiring a restart of the browser and/or MC (I can't recall
> which).  If
> >> there is any chance of a user repeatedly clicking on a launch
> control, you
> >> would be wise to prevent these multiple launch requests using a
> >> timer and/or
> >> busy cursor.  In my experience a delay of 2 to 3 seconds
> appeared to work
> >> consistently under testing on Win95, 98 and 2000 systems.
>
>
> Then, Monte Goulding wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible for you to post the script to the list.
>
>
> The following script is what I wound up using.  One thing that developers
> may forget is that not only do users have a default browser but
> they have a
> "currently running browser" which may or may not be the default.  It would
> be silly to launch IE if Netscape was currently active, and vice versa, so
> the script tries to take this possibility into account and launches
> appropriately.  As mentioned above, this requires Tuviah's excellent
> externals collection.
>
> In our case, we knew that users would primarily use IE or Netscape, and
> since Netscape appears to behave better than IE, I tested for
> Netscape first
> and defaulted to IE if Netscape wasn't the default browser or running.
>
> The global variable gLaunchBusy must be tested by any control
> making a call
> to the browser launch handler; if the global is true then the call to the
> handler should be canceled to prevent multiple DDE requests and possible
> browser launch failures.
>
> (Note: queryRegistry line is wrapped)
>
>
> # BROWSER LAUNCH HANDLER
> launchBrowser tURL
>   launchDelayTimer
>   put word 1 to -2 of queryRegistry("hkey_local_machine\software\
> classes\http\shell\open\command\") into defBrowser
>   # CHECK IF BROWSER IS ALREADY OPEN AND LAUNCH URL
>   if "Netscape" is in ext_appsopen() then
> ext_ddeexecute "NSShell","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
> exit to metacard
>   end if
>   if "Internet Explorer" is in ext_appsopen() then
> ext_ddeexecute "IExplore","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
> exit to metacard
>   end if
>   # LAUNCH BROWSER WINDOW
>   launch tURL with defBrowser
>   if "already open" is in the result then
> if "IExplore" is in defBrowser then \
>ext_ddeexecute "IExplore","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
> else ext_ddeexecute "NSShell","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
>   end if
> end launchBrowser
>
>
> on launchDelayTimer
>   global gLaunchBusy
>   set lockCursor to true
>   set cursor to watch
>   put true into gLaunchBusy
>   send "resetDelayTimer" to me in 2 seconds
> end launchDelayTimer
>
>
> on resetDelayTimer
>   global gLaunchBusy
>   put false into gLaunchBusy
>   set lockCursor to false
>   # THIS GOOFY WORKAROUND FORCES AN UPDATE OF THE CURSOR
>   # WHICH DOESN'T AUTOMATICALLY OCCUR ON SOME SYSTEMS
>   get the screenMouseLoc
>   set the screenMouseLoc to item 1 of it + 1,item 2 of it + 1
> end resetDelayTimer
>
>
> Hope this is useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
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RE: launch browser problem

2001-01-25 Thread Monte Goulding 

Thanks thats what i needed ;-)

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> Sent: Friday, 26 January 2001 2:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: launch browser problem
> 
> 
> 
> >PS to anyone that's interested. I still am not 100% sure about those
> >registry entried I posted the other day but they are what is placed into
> the
> >registry if you follow Tuviah's instructions which are in the old
> archives.
> >I don't know if I was clear about my intention. I was hoping that a guru
> who
> >had done this may confirm these entries before i go and crash my
> computer.
> 
> You need to replace the forward slash with a backslash, or strangely it
> will crash your computer(at least it did on NT4)
> 
> on mouseUp
>   get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyProgram\shell\open\ddeexec\","[FileOpen(
> %1]")
>   get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyProgram\shell\open\ddeexec\application\"
> ,"EXT")
>   get
> setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyProgram\shell\open\ddeexec\topic\","My_T
> opic")
> end mouseUp
> 
> Tuviah
> 
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empty clipboard

2001-01-25 Thread Mark Talluto 

Hello.  How do you empty out the contents of the clipboard?  Have tried
various things, but have found no better way then to copy a blank space from
a field.  Is there another way?

-Mark


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Re: QT audio problem

2001-01-25 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay 

Jack Rarick wrote:

> Okay - are you running the app from a CD - or is it resident on the HD?

It's still a stack, located on the hard drive. The aiff files are very
large and being stored on and read from a CD.

> How much memory have you allocated to the app? or to Metacard if NOT
> running as a standalone? 

MetaCard has the default 5 megs but as I understand it, QT will draw RAM
from the system as needed. Note that on my Macs, that 5 megs is enough
to produce flawless audio playback. It is only the client's machines
that have a problem. I've asked him to try running with only the base
extension set to see if there may be some other background operation
going on at the same time (like virus checking, for example) but I
haven't heard yet how that went.

> I am using multiple movies and adding music and
> get barely a hiccup when one stops and the other starts - while several
> different videos are playing in succession.  I've set my memory on my
> standalones to 15000.  Are you playing video at the same time?

No, these are just aiff files. No video. They are not displayed either;
the player object remains invisible.

> This really sounds like a
> processor/memory issue.  Check and make sure the buffer of the player is
> NOT set to alwaysbuffer.  That's a pain!

AlwaysBuffer is false. I would think it was a processor issue too,
except that HyperCard can play these files just fine with the Movie
XCMD. It may be that the XCMD doesn't allocate as much time to other
processes though as MC does.

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Re: launch browser problem

2001-01-25 Thread Scott Rossi 

Recently, I wrote:

>> FWIW, I've found you have to do a lot more jumping through hoops than what
>> is available in the sample stack due to quirky behavior of
>> Internet Explorer
>> and possibly DDE in general.  The problem is IE doesn't always make itself
>> known to the appsopen external on certain systems, so in my case, I had to
>> use a combination of the launch command and DDE to make sure URLs got
>> launched appropriately in this browser.
>> 
>> Also, this may be a Windows thing or MetaCard thing, but rapid successive
>> attempts to launch a URL can fail, making the launch process useless and
>> requiring a restart of the browser and/or MC (I can't recall which).  If
>> there is any chance of a user repeatedly clicking on a launch control, you
>> would be wise to prevent these multiple launch requests using a
>> timer and/or
>> busy cursor.  In my experience a delay of 2 to 3 seconds appeared to work
>> consistently under testing on Win95, 98 and 2000 systems.


Then, Monte Goulding wrote:

> Would it be possible for you to post the script to the list.


The following script is what I wound up using.  One thing that developers
may forget is that not only do users have a default browser but they have a
"currently running browser" which may or may not be the default.  It would
be silly to launch IE if Netscape was currently active, and vice versa, so
the script tries to take this possibility into account and launches
appropriately.  As mentioned above, this requires Tuviah's excellent
externals collection.

In our case, we knew that users would primarily use IE or Netscape, and
since Netscape appears to behave better than IE, I tested for Netscape first
and defaulted to IE if Netscape wasn't the default browser or running.

The global variable gLaunchBusy must be tested by any control making a call
to the browser launch handler; if the global is true then the call to the
handler should be canceled to prevent multiple DDE requests and possible
browser launch failures.

(Note: queryRegistry line is wrapped)


# BROWSER LAUNCH HANDLER
launchBrowser tURL
  launchDelayTimer
  put word 1 to -2 of queryRegistry("hkey_local_machine\software\
classes\http\shell\open\command\") into defBrowser
  # CHECK IF BROWSER IS ALREADY OPEN AND LAUNCH URL
  if "Netscape" is in ext_appsopen() then
ext_ddeexecute "NSShell","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
exit to metacard
  end if
  if "Internet Explorer" is in ext_appsopen() then
ext_ddeexecute "IExplore","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
exit to metacard
  end if
  # LAUNCH BROWSER WINDOW
  launch tURL with defBrowser
  if "already open" is in the result then
if "IExplore" is in defBrowser then \
   ext_ddeexecute "IExplore","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
else ext_ddeexecute "NSShell","WWW_OpenURL",tURL
  end if
end launchBrowser


on launchDelayTimer
  global gLaunchBusy
  set lockCursor to true
  set cursor to watch
  put true into gLaunchBusy
  send "resetDelayTimer" to me in 2 seconds
end launchDelayTimer


on resetDelayTimer
  global gLaunchBusy
  put false into gLaunchBusy
  set lockCursor to false
  # THIS GOOFY WORKAROUND FORCES AN UPDATE OF THE CURSOR
  # WHICH DOESN'T AUTOMATICALLY OCCUR ON SOME SYSTEMS
  get the screenMouseLoc
  set the screenMouseLoc to item 1 of it + 1,item 2 of it + 1
end resetDelayTimer


Hope this is useful.

Regards,

Scott

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Re: Creating Menus for the Mac OS

2001-01-25 Thread Gary Rathbone 

After 18 months of using Metacard on the Mac I'm just getting round to this
myself.

Kevin (runrev)  has kindly produced 'MetaClass' at

http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/metaclass.htm

'Lesson 8' on this list is "Doing Menus in Metacard", which also includes
instructions on Mac usage etc.

The rest of the MetaClass lessons are also excellent !!!
Big Thanks the Kevin (again !!)

Gary Rathbone


on 25/1/01 1:05 PM, Gregory Lypny at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could point me to where in the MetaCard
> Reference I could learn about creating standard Mac menus (e.g., File,
> Edit, ... ) which would appear at the top of the screen, as opposed to
> the top of a stack.  I found some material on Menu Panels, but there are
> no examples.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Concordia University
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Re: QT audio problem

2001-01-25 Thread Jack Rarick 

At 09:55 AM 1/25/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Jack Rarick wrote:
>> 
>> Are you using "Idle" statements while it runs?
>
>No, there aren't any idle handlers.
>
Okay - are you running the app from a CD - or is it resident on the HD?
How much memory have you allocated to the app? or to Metacard if NOT
running as a standalone?  I am using multiple movies and adding music and
get barely a hiccup when one stops and the other starts - while several
different videos are playing in succession.  I've set my memory on my
standalones to 15000.  Are you playing video at the same time?  and if you
are, what is the rect of the video? This really sounds like a
processor/memory issue.  Check and make sure the buffer of the player is
NOT set to alwaysbuffer.  That's a pain!

Jack Rarick
Braintree Athletic Systems


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Re: QT audio problem

2001-01-25 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay 

Jack Rarick wrote:
> 
> Are you using "Idle" statements while it runs?

No, there aren't any idle handlers.

> At 10:51 PM 1/24/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Remind me again -- what would cause an aiff file played via a QT player
> >object to stutter or stop playing? I can't reproduce the problem on my
> >G4, but a client says on his Mac 7300 the audio stutters, and on his G3
> >powerbook it plays for a few seconds and then stops entirely. The same
> >files, played from the same CD, play fine in HyperCard on both machines
> >using the Movie XCMD.
> >
> >He has plenty of RAM on both machines and the CD-ROM drives appear to be
> >fast enough, at least for HyperCard. The files play okay in QT Player
> >too, but I know that isn't a fair test since Player takes over most of
> >the system resources.
> >
> >Stuttering and stopping problems are not consistent. A file will play
> >okay two out of three times, and then stall. The length of the audio
> >files doesn't matter; short files are just as apt to error as long ones.
> >
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Re: launch browser problem

2001-01-25 Thread diskot123 


>PS to anyone that's interested. I still am not 100% sure about those
>registry entried I posted the other day but they are what is placed into
the
>registry if you follow Tuviah's instructions which are in the old
archives.
>I don't know if I was clear about my intention. I was hoping that a guru
who
>had done this may confirm these entries before i go and crash my
computer.

You need to replace the forward slash with a backslash, or strangely it
will crash your computer(at least it did on NT4)

on mouseUp
  get
setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyProgram\shell\open\ddeexec\","[FileOpen(
%1]")
  get
setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyProgram\shell\open\ddeexec\application\"
,"EXT")
  get
setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyProgram\shell\open\ddeexec\topic\","My_T
opic")
end mouseUp

Tuviah

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Free movable images and players

2001-01-25 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land 

Hello all,

Someone wants to step over to MetaCard from Delphi, but he wants to be sure
that one thing is possible in MetaCard before that.

He wants to have a text field in which you can 'insert' pictures and movies,
and move and scale them freely through space. A workaround is legal.

In a perfect world, MetaCard fields would accept 'real' HTML, but
unfortunately they don't. So, I thought of this workaround:
  To have a hidden field which contains the whole text, and make other
fields over which I spread the text like this: (set your font to a
mono-spaced one, like Courier)
¬
|  Field 1  |
|   |
¬
|  Image 1  |  Field 2  |
|   |   |
|   |---¬
|   |  Image 2  |
¬
|  Field 3 | I|  F  |
|  | 3|  4  |
-
  This is everything but a neat solution, and it will stay to have some
bugs, and will be very difficult to program, but maybe doable.

Does anyone else have an other solution (workaround, external) for this?

Are there other with the same problem so that we can share the solution and/
or the work?

Regards and thank for any help in advance,
Sjoerd


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Re: QT audio problem

2001-01-25 Thread Jack Rarick 

Are you using "Idle" statements while it runs?

At 10:51 PM 1/24/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Remind me again -- what would cause an aiff file played via a QT player
>object to stutter or stop playing? I can't reproduce the problem on my
>G4, but a client says on his Mac 7300 the audio stutters, and on his G3
>powerbook it plays for a few seconds and then stops entirely. The same
>files, played from the same CD, play fine in HyperCard on both machines
>using the Movie XCMD.
>
>He has plenty of RAM on both machines and the CD-ROM drives appear to be
>fast enough, at least for HyperCard. The files play okay in QT Player
>too, but I know that isn't a fair test since Player takes over most of
>the system resources.
>
>Stuttering and stopping problems are not consistent. A file will play
>okay two out of three times, and then stall. The length of the audio
>files doesn't matter; short files are just as apt to error as long ones.
>
>-- 
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>HyperActive Software   | 612-724-1596
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Creating Menus for the Mac OS

2001-01-25 Thread Gregory Lypny 

Hi Everyone,

 I was wondering if someone could point me to where in the MetaCard 
Reference I could learn about creating standard Mac menus (e.g., File, 
Edit, ... ) which would appear at the top of the screen, as opposed to 
the top of a stack.  I found some material on Menu Panels, but there are 
no examples.

 Regards,

  Greg




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Concordia University

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