or each team and base onto every team's GPS map screen, as
well as provide for some sort of two-way communication, however
rudimentary. For instance base could put a "recall" object onto the
map just ahead of a team that it wants to recall but can't reach on
the voice
e some extra win.
Yea. This one's pretty much a bulletproof solution if you test it
periodically, keep the battery charged, and built it with
waterproofness and toughness in mind.
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ut what the
practical limits are. Can also get other people with regular APRS
non-digipeating stations on the same frequency for the experiment.
There are other T2's in the area as well, a few T2-135's in
Alinco's, and at least one other OT2M up in Canada (which is part of
our backy
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Steve Huston wrote:
> What's stopping him from adding the answer first? Except maybe those of
> us who know how to read the history page and see when the answer was
> added... :>
So that's what you guys are good for! I'm learning new ways t
well,
> so I would look into it.
Nope. D7A(G) won't digi.
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t; antenna on the Rino.
Agreed. _Perhaps_ one could make a tracker work with 300mW or so in
some cases, but replacing the antenna with something better that
didn't use the human as the ground plane and worked better than a
dummy load would certainly be the first step. ;-)
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re's the TinyTrak4 project which is also in beta-test, and
might have the capability in software to do similar things someday.
Worth keeping an eye on.
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> I blew it, those are WinLink stations, not APRS stations. Try this
> one instead:
>
> <http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/near.cgi?&last=1&rate=1&lat=45.0&lon=-92.4>
FWIW: The "CW" stations are citizen's weathe
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Try something like this:
>
> <http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wl-near.cgi?lat=45.0&lon=-92.4>
I blew it, those are WinLink stations, not APRS stations. Try this
one instead:
<http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/near.cgi?&last=1&rate=
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote:
> We are in Burnett County, Wisconsin, USA The county's limits are N46.159
> to N45.641 and W92.034 to W92.886.
Try something like this:
<http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wl-near.cgi?lat=45.0&lon=-92.4>
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ne or both of them to show other stations nearby.
As far as the loading, tell us where you're at roughly and someone
on here may have direct experience in your area.
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as
(Puget Sound/Seattle), and travel mostly in a county with no
digipeaters of it's own plus lots of hills/canyons/mountains. There
are digi's within range if I don't have a lot of dirt between me and
the hilltops, but only if you're running enough power to compete
reasonably w
of Tom's response was spot-on. Just had to get my slight
disagreement stated above.
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om Garmin so that you get the positioning out
at the higher power level? If your units are older, you might want
to do that. Older units send the positioning out at FRS power
levels instead of GMRS.
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ter-in-a-backpack sort of thing takes off, we _might_ be able
to get by with less, perhaps 1-5W.
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
> Another possibility is to look at Byonics.com. They make units that work
> great for APRS trackers.
Or OpenTrackers/Tracker2's, which in my opinion work better.
They're also open-source.
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it system or go now with one of the Rino options. I
> don't know what is available as far as funds.. I am just trying to
> get a good picture of the impact of the choices.
I think I'd avoid the Rino option, as it limits you in several ways,
not the least of which is the Xastir/G
nux. It is a solid desktop (or laptop)
> environment with good support.
I haven't used Ubuntu or Kubuntu, but Ubuntu is what Dell is now
offering as an option to Windows, which means it must be pretty
good. Kubuntu is Ubuntu but with the KDE desktop instead of Gnome.
Both are based off of the Deb
d mile range here in the western U.S. RINO's
can't do this. You have to use Amateur Radio APRS plus have an
amateur radio license to do it.
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&
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, ac7yy - Kim wrote:
> Curt, I have a Treo 650 you can have if you want it. Should be worth a
> beer though !
Huh? An extra one? That means I could put Linux on #2!!!
Yea, that'd be worth a beer. Or five. When are you going to be at
our favorite beer joint agai
to head, once I get more money,
time, and the Tracker2's get into production. Hopefully surface
mount tracker2's for size/weight considerations.
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ces
(including a 2-meter radio), another cable, and a battery to
integrate in. I don't think I'd go the RINO route. With APRS (as
opposed to RINO) you'll need at least once ham radio licensee in
order to maintain the control function, but you _don't_ need a ham
radio guy to carry
'm using it heavily for it's Cell-phone, PDA, and MP3/OGG player
functions as it is under PalmOS5. Sure would be nice to have an
APRS program other than PocketAPRS and SmartPalm on it though...
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one which also helps. Also
run Rxvt instead of Xterm. Lot's of little tricks like that.
Anyway, it _can_ be done.
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commercial on Windows, but that's about it. Well, not
actually limit, but require paying licensing fees for that platform
in that instance.
Wouldn't help on the N800 though. It's Gtk+. So which would we
want to support? Gtk+ or Qt? I'd rather stick with the least
restrictiv
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
> On 21/06/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Now... This is not to say that Xastir couldn't be made to run on
> > such devices. You'd have to compile OpenMotif or Lesstif and get
> >
fix it.
We've coded around it now, so the default transparent colors in the
WMSRadar.geo file cover the changing background. If other colors
appear, we can add yet more transparent values to the .geo.
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Binary and
> installed it, modified configure, etc... still no go.
Make sure you install ImageMagick and ImageMagick development
package.
I heard a while back that the Cygwin GraphicsMagick package was
broken, but perhaps they've fixed it by now. If so, installing the
GM and GM-devel
on't see each transmit for each TNC
interface.
The received packets should be displayed there though, if the TNC(s)
are sending them to Xastir. If there are errors in the packet as
received then Xastir will never get them. At my location I get very
few stations direct, and get a lot of bad p
elieve that'll be the case.
If you send it with the same callsign/SSID, then Xastir should adopt
it as it's own and (I need to check the code on this though)
transmit it out periodically.
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Memory")) {
// Not enabled in Xastir yet
}
else if (strstr(drv_name,"GML")) {
// Not enabled in Xastir yet
}
else if (strstr(drv_name,"PostgreSQL")) {
// Not enabled in Xastir yet
}
".
You'll also need to turn on Xastir's server port before you can
inject UDP objects: Interface->Enable Server Ports
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stif and get
one installed on the device, or modify the Xastir GUI to use GTk+
(for the Nokia N800) or Qt (several other devices including the
Sharp Zaurus) in order to port Xastir to them.
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ly not being done right.
>
> I agree that this could be a useful feature for other purposes, though.
Done. Unlimited TRANSPARENT lines can be used now. I tweaked
WMSRadar.geo to make two blacks and white transparent now too.
Latest CVS.
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Hmmm... We _could_ change that by adding a fixed length table or a
> linked list of transparent values found in the .geo. This would
> slow down the rendering code a bit if there were several values
> listed, but it doesn't sound terr
listed, but it doesn't sound terribly difficult to add this feature.
This could also allow some neat stuff like removing removing water,
railroads, green areas, etc. from other maps.
If implementing this I'd probably recommend a linked list so that
the number of transparent values possible was
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote:
> This is for vector layers, especially shapefiles.
Add a bunch of this stuff to the Wiki? Then you can say "RTFM" next
time. ;-)
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"The world DO
e's also View->GPS Status, which will tell you if
you're actively decoding GPS sentences.
There's no way that I can recall to see the actual NMEA sentences
though. I don't recall them appearing in the Incoming Data dialog.
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lename and start with a fresh slate. Or just rename your
~/.xastir directory to something else before starting it up.
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ject/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=516341>
or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link:
<https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=516341>
Homepage: <http://www.xastir.org>
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in the map load
too, before it tries to fetch the remote map. Starting Xastir in
debug mode and checking the resulting file should give us some clues
there.
(xastir -v 4095 2>&1) | tee debug.log &
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s here with no problems lately. Not the same
as the INET servers, but connected to them nonetheless.
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n, but due to the
simplicity of this option compared to learning how to use a
debugger, it's sometimes worth trying for the newer Linux user.
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messages turned on, which may or
may not help you track down where the problem is.
(xastir -v 4095 2>&1) | tee debug.log
Watch the messages in the xterm that you start Xastir from. They'll
also go to debug.log if you invoke it as listed.
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What port did you use from Linux? /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1?
Linux/Unix typically start numbering their ports at 0, not 1.
/dev/ttyS0 -> COM1
/dev/ttyS1 -> COM2
etc.
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ank you all in advance for your support
If you keep it _out_ of KISS mode and create your own startup file,
you should be able to do WIDEn-N digipeating and Xastir at the same
time. Plus igating if you wish. Just make sure you check with the
locals before putting up a WIDEn-N digipeater. Ordi
if you're using any maps
that have the REFRESH option enabled, or Xastir could have been
drawing weather alerts at the time. Another possibility is that
there was some sort of network transport problem between the two
machines, or even that the Windows machine got too slow and
something got
ath, you can go to
Map->Configure->Map Intensity and turn down the intensity of the
maps underneath. That'll make the weather alerts stand out more.
Our weather alerts used to be quite a bit more intrusive and we
toned them down quite a bit a while back so that the underlying maps
co
n the Configure->Defaults dialog). If I remember
correctly we disable SmartBeaconing if it's a fixed station.
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"Allow Transmitting" turned on.
Make sure you enter a passcode corresponding to your callsign.
Don't type in the keyword "filter" in the filter box. Xastir puts
that in for you behind-the-scenes.
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&
e/xastir directory (and others) but
changed to directories more compatible with the linux filesystem
standard quite a while back. I'm thinking 2 or 3 years ago at
least?
Anyway, if you've ever run one of the older Xastir's, it saves that
info in your config file and therefore it'
something else and
restarting Xastir without the symlink in place.
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g
(refusing to use that particular library) in order to prevent
crashes. It alerts you to this fact in the startup messages in the
xterm you started it from.
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ontinue the build. At
that stage you can look at the config.log file and perhaps we can
help you figure out what it's complaining about.
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"Wind
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Xastir's Help->About. Look for "map_caching" in the "Libraries
> used:" line.
Here's what mine looks like, with EVERYTHING compiled in:
Libraries used: AX25 Festival GPSMan GraphicsMagick libProj
GeoTiff GD
;s Help->About. Look for "map_caching" in the "Libraries
used:" line.
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I don't recall whether Landsat data is useful to us, but just in
case, here's something new coming available. I received this off
one of the SAR lists. See below.
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omising, as in I don't think I'm going to
head that way at this time.
W.R.T. Xastir-2, we'd have to add support for some simpler database
for the back-end 'cuz I don't think PostgreSQL or MySQL would work
well on such devices. There are simpler databases that should wor
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Ones that come to mind:
>
>
> Sharp Zaurus (runs Linux, but with Qt instead of Motif, no X11)
> Nokia N800 (runs Linux, but with GTk instead of Motif)
> Palm Treo Smartphone (runs PalmOS, but can boot Linux too)
Here's a good
y. It has a full keyboard,
touchscreen, bluetooth, IrDA, USB, cellphone, etc. It also has a
card slot. As I understand it, Linux can be run from memory and it
only touches the card slot and the peripherals, so PalmOS and all of
its apps would remain relatively safe.
It's nice to think ab
This will cause terraserver to serve up the image
faster.
And the last but probably most useful suggestion: Go to
File->Configure->Timing and increase the slider for "Internet Map
Timeout", which is the one at the bottom-right.
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believe the Xastir code is format-independent w.r.t. IM/GM, but
your GM version may have a bug w.r.t. BMP files.
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ceives one. This can be used to restart a remote instance, for
instance after changing some config file value.
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mestamp occurs on one of the
backup files, so you know they just switched around.
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nts that could piece all of them together into one object.
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"The worl
on
in a manner such that the remote station has an exact copy of the
info. Since we're calculating area enclosed and such, it'd be nice
if the representation of the object at the remote end was identical
to the original and not just a look-alike.
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tion: Would multiple clients talking to a central SQL database
(thereby getting the same information and generating similar views)
suit your purpose, or do you have a need to transmit the info across
APRS channels? Both?
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speed/minimal memory usage, which is why I use such a
minimal memory manager. Gives me the virtual consoles and extreme
speed, which is what I'm after.
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patible with any other APRS
application. There's no reason why we couldn't request our own
user-defined packet from Bob, then define all kinds of special stuff
just for us.
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ultiline_Protocol.html>
But we'd have to add more to it so that we could send the parameters
across.
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ing to 16-bit color-depth may
solve this problem.
Fairly recent Xastir code I presume?
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t off the bat
then it can't do the other checks. On my system that executable is
in /usr/local/bin/, just like yours. Perhaps add that directory to
your $PATH and try again?
It looks like my GraphicsMagick is installed in /usr/local/* as
well so that appears to be a fairly standard place for
WIDE1-1 digipeater with callsign substitution, if you're
running it on a Serial KISS Interface or an AX.25 interface.
Another option would be Digi_ned, which runs under DOS or Linux. If
you have a DOS emulator running or the Linux version will compile
under MacOSX, that might work for you
ag in the .geo.
Grep for "IMAGESIZE" in README.MAPS and it should tell you about it.
Basically: Find the size of the image and put it into the .geo.
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've just turned on
the executable bit for each but it won't hurt anything. Won't hurt
anything if there's no executable code in there at least.
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k of the IM code
from a few years back. It seems (to us) to be more stable than IM
over time, particulary the API we have to program to.
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The new stable release is out: Xastir-1.9.0
I hope to have the SuSE-10.0 RPM's and the LSB-binary out shortly.
The scripts to create them are running now.
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
> On 27/04/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
> >
> > > which doesn't really tell me about GPS support. So I am guessing it
> > > doesn
that
controls the serial ports. Another option would be to change the
permissions on the serial ports to 666.
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rection of how to get support for my
> serial GPS (connected via a Keyspan Serial-USB converter). Its a
> Garmin eTrex model (the old yellow cased, monochrome display).
Interface->Interface Control->Add->Serial GPS
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us?
Are there any changes that need to take place in our code? Perhaps
the way we decode NWS alert packets or how we bring up alerts from
the Shapefiles? New Shapefiles to download when the switchover
takes place?
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"Lott
to restart
Xastir to reload that file.
*) If it's a per-map dbfawk that's located with the map file itself,
loading the map reloads the dbfawk.
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my filesystem.
Something like:
cd /usr/local/share/xastir/maps
ln -s /usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS
Then just do a reindex of your maps and you should see them in the
Map Chooser from then on.
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M-2.gnis OR.gnis USA.geocode.bz2 WA.gnis
HI.gnis MT.gnis NM.gnisplaceholder WA.geocode
I could compress and upload them somewhere if they might be useful.
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27;t* work we need to know that
> *AND* fix our configure script so it *does* work with newer versions.
Yep. Don't know of any cases like this yet. Usually when things
break with newer version they fix it, provide and update, and _our_
problem goes away. It's _almost_ like they'
exact error plus other missing file/bad config file sorts of
problems. Add/revise the text there as necessary.
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t part is that the build works and the executable works too!
Another nice thing is that I just took our entire QSO from this
morning and put it into the FAQ as question 4.29. Now I can just
say "RTFM". ;-)
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g.status: WARNING: config/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir
> setting
Don't recall seeing that one before. I suspect you might need to
upgrade or downgrade your autoconf/automake packages in order to
make this work. These two packages are somewhat version dependent
on ea
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> When I compile Xastir, each GCC line has this somewhere in it:
>
> -DXASTIR_DATA_BASE=\"/usr/local/share/xastir\"
>
> What does yours have?
This is set in configure.ac:
# Set XASTIR_DATA_BASE in CPPFLAGS due to Gnu codi
CC line has this somewhere in it:
-DXASTIR_DATA_BASE=\"/usr/local/share/xastir\"
What does yours have?
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able to start up ok. If so, you have a corrupt config file
in ~/.xastir.save/config/xastir.cnf
To get back to where you were before you tried the above, do this:
cd
rm -rf .xastir
mv .xastir.save .xastir
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stir looks like it's the one you
just compiled.
ls -l /usr/local/bin/xastir
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n_US; xastir -geometry -0-0 &
If LANG is set to something else, it messes up the
sprintf/fprintf/printf/scanf/sscanf/fscanf functions in libc. We
use those functions to read/write files in Xastir, including the
config files.
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SELECTED_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
SYMBOLS_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols
SOUND_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
GNIS_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.gnis
GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.geocode
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it one
> of these days.
It's open-source. You can "unfix" it. ;-)
Or refuse to update your version.
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two votes for OpenMotif-2.3.0 not working properly. I may
have to upgrade one machine to 10.2 sometime soon to see if I can
reproduce and then fix the problem. Perhaps the same fix might help
some of the Lesstif problems as well.
Again I'll report that OpenMotif-2.2.3 on OpenSuse-10.0 is
This was rejected by the list server. I'm forwarding it on to the
list 'cuz it's just cool...
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Tom Russo wrote:
> I will open a bug report on Sourceforge, and anyone who wants to play with
> it is welcome to dive in.
Bug 1698474. Filed it last week.
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busy. Anyone else willing to
do a bit of debugging is welcome to contact either of us for
specifics on the problem we're seeing. If someone else can beat us
to a bug-fix, we won't mind at all. ;-)
As far as the release goes, I can push it out in 1/2 hour or less.
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