Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

2005-09-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
Sorry about the mislead on XML -- my FileMaker Pro experience with  
7/8 is only just starting. You could do it with FileMaker 5.5 ;-)


On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Peter Reid wrote:

Er, what's not true - that you're forced to see FM Pro do its  
stuff when using AppleScript or that you need activate at the  
start of each script?  I'm happy to believe the latter isn't  
required, but I don't think it helps since if this is left out I  
still see FM Pro screens flashing away.  However, I'm fairly  
convinced of the former!


I didn't make the suggestion, but even so --

What happens if you start your script with:

tell application FileMaker Pro
  hide
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RE: Rebranding a Revolution .exe

2005-09-21 Thread Scott Kane - Reptile Software Consultant


 I am thinking of writing a separate Rebrander
 application that will allow this.  Would appreciate
 any pointers on how this could be achieved - would I
 have to put the AffiliateID field in a separate
 substack,  or is there some way that I can access the
 internal fields of the compiled Main App from my
 Rebrander app.
 
 Hope my requirement makes sense,  and excuse me if I
 am missing a simple solution to this.

All you need to do is create an external stack file
(see the list archives for how + there is a demo
in the RevOnline Viewer) storing your preferences,
in this case the brand details for the product.
Then all you've got to do is create a little app
that can also open this file and use it as the
rebrander.  Then when the real program runs it
can read this external stack file and gather together
any information it needs.  No need to rename the exe
(which is complex and pointless).  You could even assign
the bitmap for the splash screen doing this.  The only
thing you can't do (on Windows and Linux) is change the
icon.  However - in OSX you can by opening the application
package and overwriting the existing icons in the resource
folder with the new ones.

HTH 

Scott


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Re: CS Notification Center

2005-09-21 Thread david bovill

On 21 Sep 2005, at 03:10, James Spencer wrote:



Take a look at XcodeClientServer Sample Code from Apple for a real  
simple example of how it works but the basic idea is your other  
application posts notifications to the distributed notification  
center and your client program can register to receive them.  The  
other applications necessarily need to be written so as to post  
those notifications and your application needs to be written to  
receive them.


What is the difference to Bonjour? That is what extra do you do with  
the notifications that you do not or cannot do with announcing  
services over Bonjour?

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Rebranding a Revolution .exe

2005-09-21 Thread Ivan Wong
Thanks Scott.

I'll explore the option you've suggested.


Ivan

 All you need to do is create an external stack file 
  
 (see the list archives for how + there is a demo
  
 in the RevOnline Viewer) storing your preferences,  
  
 in this case the brand details for the product.   
  
 Then all you've got to do is create a little app
  
 that can also open this file and use it as the  
  
 rebrander.  Then when the real program runs it  
  
 can read this external stack file and gather
together  
 any information it needs.  No need to rename the exe
  
 (which is complex and pointless).  You could even
assign   
 the bitmap for the splash screen doing this.  The
only 
 thing you can't do (on Windows and Linux) is change
the
 icon.  However - in OSX you can by opening the
application 
 package and overwriting the existing icons in the
resource 
 folder with the new ones.   
  
 
  
 HTH 
  
 
  
 Scott   
  

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Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-09-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
A very late contribution to this thread.

Way back in 2005-07-04 kee nethery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If you are running Hypercard on the startup volume, it runs fine  
 until you try to edit a script. That does not work.
 
 If you are running externals in Hypercard, no clue whether they still  
 function or not, I imagine they do, mostly.
 
 If you want to edit scripts in Hypercard just create a small disk  
 image and plop Hypercard and the home stack into that virtual disk.  
 Then you can edit scripts just fine running that copy of Hypercard.
 
 The offending code appears to me to be the script editor that is  
 separate code inside Hypercard.
 
 The Apple tech support folks at WWDC had the following response when  
 I mentioned the problem Hypercard is not supported, OS9 is not  
 supported, we cannot help you.

I upgraded to Tiger a month or two ago, and indeed found that creating a disk
image for HyperCard allowed me to carry on using it in the limited ways I 
needed.

Recently a museum client replaced a network of touchscreen workstations, running
a large and complex installation that we created about 7 years ago in C++,  with
Mac minis.  We tested the app first on a Mac mini (running Panther) - no probs.
By the time the order was made, we ended up with 14 Mac minis running Tiger; and
we're getting some intermittent problems.

I've traced at least one of the problems to the fact that a call to the Mac
toolbox routine PBGetCatInfoSync, to obtain the directory id of a folder at the
top level of a volume, returns 'fnfErr' (file/folder not found), under Tiger, if
the volume is the boot volume.  It's fine under Panther, as under all previous
systems for the last 7 years; it's fine if it's not the boot volume (eg a disk
image).

I can't be sure if this is the same bug that messes up the script editor in HC,
but the symptoms are obviously related.

As for Apple's comments: that's just bull.  It's true that HyperCard is not
supported; but they sell Tiger with the ability to run Classic apps, and they've
just screwed this up.  I'm sure it's accurate that they've no intention of
fixing it; but the fact is that they've recently introduced a new bug into the
Classic layer; thereby causing a great deal of inconvenience and expense to some
of their more loyal customers.  Bah humbug, etc.

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Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-09-21 Thread Charles Hartman
Well, I think the point is that _Classic_ is on the verge of not  
being supported any more.


Charles Hartman


On Sep 21, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

As for Apple's comments: that's just bull.  It's true that  
HyperCard is not
supported; but they sell Tiger with the ability to run Classic  
apps, and they've
just screwed this up.  I'm sure it's accurate that they've no  
intention of
fixing it; but the fact is that they've recently introduced a new  
bug into the
Classic layer; thereby causing a great deal of inconvenience and  
expense to some

of their more loyal customers.  Bah humbug, etc.



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Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

2005-09-21 Thread Bruce Robertson
 I use AppleScript to send hide yourself to FM Pro whenever
 possible, but this doesn't help when I'm trying to access the
 database since I have to start my AppleScripts with 'activate'.
 
 Bruce Robertson:
 Not true.
 
 Er, what's not true - that you're forced to see FM Pro do its stuff
 when using AppleScript or that you need activate at the start of
 each script?  I'm happy to believe the latter isn't required, but I
 don't think it helps since if this is left out I still see FM Pro
 screens flashing away.  However, I'm fairly convinced of the former!

It is not true that you need to activate Filemaker to do useful things with
applescript and FileMaker.

There may be some things - go to layout for instance - where of course you
will in fact go to the layout as requested and therefore it will be visible.

I don't think I've seen any descriptions of what you are trying to
accomplish. But certainly you can get and set data, create new records,
perform finds, etc without making the window visible.

And of course you can also set the bounds of the window to an off screen
location.

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Re: Tiger breaks hyperCard?

2005-09-21 Thread Pierre Sahores

Hi,

HC 2.4.1 is still working as expected under Tiger 10.4.2 / Classic /  
PWB G4 there.


Best,

Le 21 sept. 05 à 18:00, Charles Hartman a écrit :

Well, I think the point is that _Classic_ is on the verge of not  
being supported any more.


Charles Hartman


On Sep 21, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:


As for Apple's comments: that's just bull.  It's true that  
HyperCard is not
supported; but they sell Tiger with the ability to run Classic  
apps, and they've
just screwed this up.  I'm sure it's accurate that they've no  
intention of
fixing it; but the fact is that they've recently introduced a new  
bug into the
Classic layer; thereby causing a great deal of inconvenience and  
expense to some

of their more loyal customers.  Bah humbug, etc.




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Resources on OSX

2005-09-21 Thread david bovill
Been trying to work out how to get the resource infor out of webloc  
files using Rev and found this article about using Applescript and an  
OSX command line tool:


http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040728185233128

I am looking to be able to create and access the url inside these  
webloc files. This seems to be stored in the resource fork - so I  
though I'd use the built in Rev commands but these return empty for  
webloc files - not too up on resources in OSX - are the Rev commands  
only for OS9?


Here is the AppleScript:

property devToolsPath : /Developer/Tools/ -- path to free Apple  
Developer Tools


on open draggedFiles
  local theFile, weblocPath, urlPath, theURL, cmd
  repeat with theFile in draggedFiles
if (theFile as string) ends with .webloc then
  -- get full paths
  set weblocPath to quoted form of POSIX path of theFile
  set urlPath to text 1 thru -9 of weblocPath  .url'
  -- 1) get URL from .webloc file
  set cmd to devToolsPath  DeRez -e -only 'url '
weblocPath  ¬
 | grep '\\/\\* .* \\*\\/' | sed 's/^.*\\/\\* //;s/ \\*\\/ 
$//' | tr -d '\\n'

  set theURL to do shell script cmd
  if theURL begins with http then
-- 2) write URL to file
set cmd to echo '[InternetShortcut]  (ASCII character 10)  
 ¬

  URL=  theURL  'weblocPath
do shell script cmd
-- 3) rename file using MvMac now that we have Developer  
Tools anyway

set cmd to devToolsPath  MvMac   weblocPath urlPath
do shell script cmd
  end if
end if
  end repeat
end open

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Pulling list-items up and down in a scrollable list-field in a standalone.

2005-09-21 Thread Kresten Bjerg
I have 12 scrolling list-fields (of 12 selfmade icon-fonts), from which users 
of standalone can select one or more items, and produce moveable buttons 
reflecting the letter selected  in the list, and  subsequently clickable can 
write its letterinto a time-indexed line on the daycard of the electronic 
diary. Going to publish the standalone, with only 450 icons, I want to make it 
possible for users to update with new, expanded, versions  of the fonts, 
without having to abandoned the accumulated diary, and private layout in the 
first standalone ( with an average of app 38 items in each list). 
The solution will be to include all 256 ascii characters in each list. In that 
way - having installed future expanded icon-fonts - the new characters should 
appear in their 12 list-fields. but they will be scattered down in the 
list, - and difficult to access.
Therefor the user of the standalone shall have a way , when scrolled to the 
very bottom, to move up to the first (last) new item, select it, and pull it 
upwards (preferably with the arrow-up key) all the way to the top, or leave it 
e.g. just under the original items, - or somewhere between them.  The potential 
should also be for the standalone users to move the preliminary items down or 
up, as they choose.  I see such functionality implemented in the menu-editor.   
How can we script this ?
 
Kresten Bjerg (WWW.psy.ku.dk/bjerg)
 
 
items.

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TEST - please ignore!

2005-09-21 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis

I said ignore it!

:-)
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FTP gotcha - how do you ignore a socket error?

2005-09-21 Thread Jim Ault
I am working on two trusted computers, getting a successful file transfer,
but then the following error on the Windows client (Mac OSX Jaguar ftp host)
about 8 seconds later
---
226 Transfer complete.
QUIT
221-
Data traffic for this session was 1700 bytes in 1 file.socket error
24.234.190.204:21|6930
Error 10053 on socket
Total traffic for this session was 2342 bytes in 1 transfer.221
Thank you for using the FTP service on localhost.
CLOSED 24.234.190.204:21|6930
CLOSED 24.234.190.204:21|6930
-

Client  Win XP Pro, McAffee, Rev 2.5.1  (plus compiled versions)

Firewall FTP 21-22 was tried as [ON + OFF = same error] [McAffee]
compiled app was registered as trusted source [McAffee]
host static IP registered as trusted IP [McAffee]

The transfer is good, and I would like to just ignore the error and let a
loop continue about once every 60 seconds.

Note: FTP works fine from another (Mac) and using (XP Pro in VirtualPC on
Mac G5 OSX Panther)

Thanks

Jim Ault
Las Vegas
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Re: FTP gotcha - how do you ignore a socket error?

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Cragg


On 21 Sep 2005, at 20:44, Jim Ault wrote:

I am working on two trusted computers, getting a successful file  
transfer,
but then the following error on the Windows client (Mac OSX Jaguar  
ftp host)

about 8 seconds later
---
226 Transfer complete.
QUIT
221-
Data traffic for this session was 1700 bytes in 1 file.socket error
24.234.190.204:21|6930
Error 10053 on socket
Total traffic for this session was 2342 bytes in 1 transfer.221
Thank you for using the FTP service on localhost.
CLOSED 24.234.190.204:21|6930
CLOSED 24.234.190.204:21|6930
-

Client  Win XP Pro, McAffee, Rev 2.5.1  (plus compiled versions)

Firewall FTP 21-22 was tried as [ON + OFF = same error] [McAffee]
compiled app was registered as trusted source [McAffee]
host static IP registered as trusted IP [McAffee]

The transfer is good, and I would like to just ignore the error and  
let a

loop continue about once every 60 seconds.


I think you can probably ignore it. (The 226 line signals the end of  
the transaction.) But things like that make me nervous. :-)


Error 10053 on socket is a Windows error, and means something on  
the local computer caused the connection to close.


Something you might want to check. The ftp QUIT command is issued by  
libUrl if, after a transaction completes, there is no activity on the  
socket for 15 seconds. In case there is something on your machine  
that doesn't like the socket remaining unused for so long, you can  
change the delay to less than 15 seconds by using libUrlSetFTPStopTime.


   libUrlSetFTPStopTime 2 ## put somewhere before your ftp call

This will reduce the delay to 2 seconds.

You might want to see if it makes a difference.

Cheers
Dave
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Re: Pulling list-items up and down in a scrollable list-field in a standalone.

2005-09-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/21/05 2:15 PM, Kresten Bjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have 12 scrolling list-fields (of 12 selfmade icon-fonts), from which users
 of standalone can select one or more items, and produce moveable buttons
 reflecting the letter selected  in the list, and  subsequently clickable can
 write its letterinto a time-indexed line on the daycard of the electronic
 diary. Going to publish the standalone, with only 450 icons, I want to make it
 possible for users to update with new, expanded, versions  of the fonts,
 without having to abandoned the accumulated diary, and private layout in the
 first standalone ( with an average of app 38 items in each list).
 The solution will be to include all 256 ascii characters in each list. In that
 way - having installed future expanded icon-fonts - the new characters should
 appear in their 12 list-fields. but they will be scattered down in the
 list, - and difficult to access.
 Therefor the user of the standalone shall have a way , when scrolled to the
 very bottom, to move up to the first (last) new item, select it, and pull it
 upwards (preferably with the arrow-up key) all the way to the top, or leave it
 e.g. just under the original items, - or somewhere between them.  The
 potential should also be for the standalone users to move the preliminary
 items down or up, as they choose.  I see such functionality implemented in the
 menu-editor.   How can we script this ?

If you're talking about providing drag-reordering of items in a list field,
Scott Rossi did a cool implementation called Get In Line that you can
download from his TMPanel by typing the following into the message box and
executing it:

  go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/tmpanel.rev;

Perhaps you can use that or get some ideas from it...

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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We are a Sponsor on Renderosity's Dawn of the Dark Contest

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi,

Just in case anyone here does a lot with 3D artwork and is interested, I
thought I'd let you know we're sponsoring this contest:

http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewStory=11628

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.runrev.com/
Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools

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Re: We are a Sponsor on Renderosity's Dawn of the Dark Contest

2005-09-21 Thread Richard Gaskin

Kevin Miller wrote:


Just in case anyone here does a lot with 3D artwork and is interested, I
thought I'd let you know we're sponsoring this contest:

http://www.renderosity.com/index.ez?viewStory=11628


Excellent!

What's the tie-in?  Does Rev have hooks for a 3D engine now?

--
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 Managing Editor, revJournal
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Re: Rebranding a Revolution .exe

2005-09-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 9/21/05, Ivan Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Greetings from a new Revolution user (I'm not totally
 new,  but upgraded recently from Dreamcard to Studio).

 I am trying to create an software application which
 will allow users to personalize the software.
 Basically,  I hope to allow users to insert their own
 userid into a field named AffiliateID in the
 application Main App.

 I am thinking of writing a separate Rebrander
 application that will allow this.  Would appreciate
 any pointers on how this could be achieved - would I
 have to put the AffiliateID field in a separate
 substack,  or is there some way that I can access the
 internal fields of the compiled Main App from my
 Rebrander app.

Hi Ivan,

It sounds like all you really need is a way to store the user entered
data, as a preference or in a separate sub-stack. I wrote an article
for revJournal about saving data in standalones which may give you
some ideas.
http://www.revjournal.com/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html

Cheers,
Sarah
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Re: custom properties help

2005-09-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 9/20/05, Paul Salyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dear RunRev Programmers,

 Can sopme1 help me with this stack, I'm trying to learn how to save program
 information in custom properties.

 Thank you!

Dan Shafer gave a scripting conference on the subject of properties
which included information about custom properties. You can download
the stack with the log of the conference from here:
http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/
It was conference #5.

HTH,
Sarah
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Re: Resources on OSX

2005-09-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 9/22/05, david bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Been trying to work out how to get the resource infor out of webloc
 files using Rev and found this article about using Applescript and an
 OSX command line tool:

  http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040728185233128

 I am looking to be able to create and access the url inside these
 webloc files. This seems to be stored in the resource fork - so I
 though I'd use the built in Rev commands but these return empty for
 webloc files - not too up on resources in OSX - are the Rev commands
 only for OS9?

 Here is the AppleScript:

snipped

 Anyone got an idea how to do this in Transcript?

For starters, you could try just using the AppleScript from inside your Rev app.
Looking further into the script, I see that it uses a shell command
within the AppleScript, so you could call that directly from
Transcript.

Using the Rev resource commands, I can see 4 resources in the webloc
file I tested, but I can only see their names, not their contents. The
AppleScript uses one of the developer tools to extract the contents of
the resource, so it would have to be installed for this to work.

HTH,
Sarah
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Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

2005-09-21 Thread Jim Ault
I don't have FMkr, so cannot test, but will the database respond and run if
it is 'minimized' on the dock?  hidden dock?
-layouts will still function, even if the window is 10x10 pixels
-not sure about hidden databases running FMkr scripts
-paste and image that looks like the desktop, so when it comes forward, the
user can really tell it it FMkr.

I used to use FMkr to export data called by Applescripts, but user interface
was no concern since this was a server.
Does the FMkr database have to be on the same Mac?  Being frontmost will not
be an issue in that case.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 9/21/05 10:50 AM, Bruce Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I use AppleScript to send hide yourself to FM Pro whenever
 possible, but this doesn't help when I'm trying to access the
 database since I have to start my AppleScripts with 'activate'.
 
 Bruce Robertson:
 Not true.
 
 Er, what's not true - that you're forced to see FM Pro do its stuff
 when using AppleScript or that you need activate at the start of
 each script?  I'm happy to believe the latter isn't required, but I
 don't think it helps since if this is left out I still see FM Pro
 screens flashing away.  However, I'm fairly convinced of the former!
 
 It is not true that you need to activate Filemaker to do useful things with
 applescript and FileMaker.
 
 There may be some things - go to layout for instance - where of course you
 will in fact go to the layout as requested and therefore it will be visible.
 
 I don't think I've seen any descriptions of what you are trying to
 accomplish. But certainly you can get and set data, create new records,
 perform finds, etc without making the window visible.
 
 And of course you can also set the bounds of the window to an off screen
 location.
 
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Windows check boxes

2005-09-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi all,

I've run into a weird problem with the Windows version of an app, and
I'm sure this didn't happen before. I have a Preferences stack that
has several check boxes.  I can check them OK, but as soon as the
mouse pointer moves out of the button, it unchecks itself. This
doesn't happen on the Mac OS X build.

I'm using Windows XP Home and Rev 2.6. Any ideas anyone?

TIA,
Sarah
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Re: AppleScript - Silent Running?

2005-09-21 Thread Bruce Robertson
 I don't have FMkr, so cannot test, but will the database respond and run if
 it is 'minimized' on the dock?  hidden dock?
 -layouts will still function, even if the window is 10x10 pixels
 -not sure about hidden databases running FMkr scripts
 -paste and image that looks like the desktop, so when it comes forward, the
 user can really tell it it FMkr.

Just did a few simple tests, yes it can be scripted while minimized. There
were a few things I had to do when scripting a hidden window that I do not
have to do when scripting a minimized window, so this looks like a good
technique.

 I used to use FMkr to export data called by Applescripts, but user interface
 was no concern since this was a server.

Doubtful. There is no way to get data from FileMaker Server, assuming  you
are talking about days before Filemaker 7. Maybe you're just talking about
Filemaker client with nobody operating it.

 Does the FMkr database have to be on the same Mac?  Being frontmost will not
 be an issue in that case.

That is probably doable.

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The Deadly Sins

2005-09-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Sinners-

I've had this filed away for a while and just rediscovered it...

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/sins.html

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Re: The Deadly Sins

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Shafer

Mark...

Thanks for sharing. I've seen that but not for a long time.

When I first saw it, I proposed a 14th deadly sin of which virtually  
every compiler of that era was guilty:


The fourteenth deadly sin is informing the user of a compiler error  
your compiler was smart enough to fix without his help


I always _hated_ missing semicolon on line 13. If you know there's  
a semicolon missing, why the heck don't you just PUT IT THERE! You're  
the freaking computer!


There. I feel better now.


On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:


Sinners-

I've had this filed away for a while and just rediscovered it...

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/sins.html

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-Mark Wieder
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