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This week we have a review of the just-released MacWeb WWW
   browser, the real story on using America Online over the
   Internet, and a review of a high tech joke book. Mark
   Anbinder writes about Connectix's new RAM-doubling version
   of their Maxima RAM disk software, and Mel Park passes on
   some great stories about the original Colossal Cave -
   remember ADVENTURE?

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Topics:
    MailBITS/06-Jun-94
    AOL & Internet - The Real Story
    Twice The Maxima
    Colossal Cave Revisited
    High Tech Humor
    MacWeb
    Reviews/06-Jun-94

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MailBITS/06-Jun-94
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  The URL for the TidBITS World-Wide Web home page has changed
  slightly due to some changes on the server. It is now:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/Pages/TidBITS/TidBITS.html


**Internet Providers!** -- In an attempt to provide more complete
  information about Internet providers in the second edition of
  Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, I'm seeking information about
  providers around the world who are **not** listed in Peter
  Kaminski's excellent PDIAL list. (To request a copy of the PDIAL
  list, send email to <[e-mail]> with "Send
  PDIAL" in the Subject line.)

  I'll post the results to the net as well, and feel free to forward
  this to providers who might not otherwise see it. Please send me
  <[e-mail]> four (and only four) pieces of information:

* Provider name
* Your <[e-mail]> address for additional information
* Your voice phone number
* A list of the area codes you cover for local access (and the
  country if outside the U.S.) [ACE]


**Pythaeus notes** in relation to our question about what happens
  to the LC line now that Performas can be sold into the higher
  education channel that the LC line (including a new one numbered
  636, so they're not ditching the line entirely) will stick around
  only in the K-12 market. Curious. [ACE]


AOL & Internet - The Real Story
-------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Thanks to Art Sanderson <[e-mail]> and Sunil Paul
  <[e-mail]> at America Online, we finally have the real
  details on accessing America Online via the Internet. From what
  they tell us, the information about the beta program provided over
  the phone and then reported to us is almost completely wrong. The
  telephone tech support folks know nothing about this (or any
  other) beta program and ideally shouldn't answer questions about
  it at all. Once the software is released, the telephone support
  folks should be trained on it.

  If you have problems accessing America Online over the Internet,
  send email to <[e-mail]>, or if you use the Windows TCP
  software, <[e-mail]>. Even if you haven't been accepted
  into the beta program, you can report bugs and other problems.

  The first thing to note is that you will not be expelled for using
  the beta software. However, America Online asks that you sign up
  online (keyword = Internet Apply) so they can keep track of how
  many people use the system, inform testers of any major bugs, give
  them access to the beta discussion areas on America Online, and so
  on.

  Second, although America Online has not yet finalized pricing for
  TCP/IP users, it's likely that it will be the same as for a local
  call - $9.95 for the first five hours and $3.50 each hour after
  that. Those who pay additional surcharges for connecting from
  overseas or Hawaii, for instance, should not face those surcharges
  over the Internet. However, international users, while welcome on
  America Online, must use America Online's billing, which requires
  a major credit card or U.S. bank account.


Twice The Maxima
----------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  Last month, Connectix introduced a new version of Maxima, its
  popular RAM disk management software. Maxima 3.0 supports all
  Power Macintoshes, in addition to all 68030 and 68040 Mac models,
  and incorporates Connectix's proprietary RAM doubling technology
  (as seen in RAM Doubler) to create a RAM disk twice the size of
  the physical memory allocated.

  Speaking of RAM Doubler, Connectix says the two products can be
  used together seamlessly; a Mac with 32 MB of physical RAM, for
  example, could be set up with a 16 MB RAM disk and still have 48
  MB left for system and application memory.

  Maxima provides a "non-volatile" RAM disk, a Macintosh volume that
  acts like a hard disk on the Mac desktop but works at the far-
  higher speed of memory. The contents of the RAM disk stick around
  through shutdowns, restarts, and even system crashes. Only a power
  failure will result in the loss of data from a RAM disk. (If this
  sounds like a bad idea to you, we suggest you add a UPS, or
  uninterruptible power supply, to your setup - and avoid tripping
  over power cords.)

  Using a RAM disk to store active system software, applications,
  and even documents can dramatically improve performance by
  replacing relatively slow disk accesses with much quicker memory
  accesses. Maxima enables you to copy your active System Folder to
  the RAM disk and then reboot from that; subsequent restarts are
  lightning-fast, and the Mac runs much faster with its system
  software in memory. You can balance between speed and memory
  requirements by keeping some, but not all, of your extensions and
  fonts in the RAM disk. (The rest can still be accessed via a
  clever alias arrangements.)

  On a PowerBook, running from the RAM disk has the further
  advantage of keeping the hard drive spun down, to lesson the
  annoyance of having it spin up and conserve battery power.
  Connectix says Maxima is particularly useful to software
  developers, who can benefit from dramatically shortened compile
  times on large programming projects.

  Maxima requires at least 8 MB of real memory in order to run on
  Macintosh computers that support RAM disks already. (Of course,
  the more memory the better.) On Macs that don't support a RAM disk
  in the system software, you must have more than 8 MB of RAM.
  Memory "created" by RAM Doubler doesn't count! The software runs
  on any 68030, 68040, or PowerPC Macintosh, or on an 68020 Mac that
  has a PMMU added. This means almost every Mac introduced since
  1990, including every PowerBook save the 100, can use Maxima. (And
  the PowerBook 100 already has a completely non-volatile RAM disk
  built in.)

  Maxima is the first member of the Connectix product line to take
  full advantage of the PowerPC performance of the new Power
  Macintosh line. The "overweight software" (in Connectix's words)
  contains both 680x0 and PowerPC code. All of Maxima's time-
  critical sections have been rewritten in native PowerPC code for
  optimal performance.

  Registered owners of previous Maxima versions may obtain a $19.95
  upgrade by telephone, fax, email, carrier pigeon (NoDropping
  protocol only, please), smoke signal, or message in a bottle
  (allow 4-128 weeks for return bottle delivery). Connectix accepts
  Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover for upgrade
  orders.

    Connectix -- 800/950-5880 -- 415/571-5100 -- 415/571-5195 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    Connectix propaganda
    Roy McDonald, Connectix CEO


Colossal Cave Revisited
-----------------------
  by Mel Park <[e-mail]>

  I just received my copy of Apprentice, the CD of source code put
  out by Celestin Company (mentioned in TidBITS #228_). My CD came
  so soon because I am one of the hundreds of authors whose work is
  contained within.

  Looking through the CD's contents, I was pleased to see that the
  source code for Advent is on the disk. Advent is the successor to
  the game of ADVENTURE, which in one form or another has been known
  to the computing community for 30 years. On one hand, having
  ADVENTURE still distributed in 1994 pays homage to the tradition
  of this first of all the text-based computer games. On the other
  hand, I am pleased even more to see it because of my close
  association with the real cave on which the game is based and
  because of the tradition within the caving (call it spelunking if
  you must) community that the game ADVENTURE represents. How many
  know that the world you explore in ADVENTURE is a real place? The
  online help for Advent gives this brief description:

>         *** THE HISTORY OF ADVENTURE (ABRIDGED) ***
>                   ** By Ima Wimp **
> ADVENTURE was originally developed by William Crowther, and later
> substantially rewritten and expanded by Don Woods at Stanford Univ.
> According to legend, Crowther's original version was modeled on an
> a real cavern, called Colossal Cave, which is a part of Kentucky's
> Mammoth Caverns.  That version of the game included the main maze
> and a portion of the third-level (Complex Junction - Bedquilt -
> Swiss Cheese rooms, etc.), but not much more....

  "According to legend" - Hah! ADVENTURE is based on a real cave,
  one that is, indeed, now part of the Mammoth Cave System in
  Kentucky. The cave is not Colossal, however, but Bedquilt Cave. In
  our small circle, Willie Crowther is a famous, as was his wife
  then, cave explorer of the 60's and 70's when Colossal, Bedquilt,
  Salts, Crystal and the other caves under Flint Ridge, Kentucky
  were mapped together to become the longest cave in the world. In
  1972 the Flint Ridge caves were joined to Mammoth Cave, over on
  the next ridge, in a series of difficult trips in low, half-water-
  filled passages under Houchin's Valley. That connection is still
  called the Everest of speleology. The total known length of the
  Mammoth Cave System exceeds 350 miles and exploration is still
  going on.

  Bedquilt was Willie's favorite part of the cave system. I still
  have a copy of his map of it. Computer types who grew up exploring
  ADVENTURE don't realize how accurately the game represents
  passages in Bedquilt Cave. Yes, there is a Hall of the Mountain
  King and a Two-Pit Room. The entrance is indeed a strong steel
  grate at the bottom of a twenty-foot depression.

  On a survey trip to Bedquilt, a member of my party mentioned she
  would one day like to go on trip to Colossal Cave, where she
  understood the game ADVENTURE was set. No, I said, the game is
  based on Bedquilt Cave and we are going there now. Excitement!
  Throughout the cave, she kept up a constant narrative, based on
  her encyclopedic knowledge of the game. In the Complex Room
  (renamed Swiss Cheese Room in Advent) she scrambled off in a
  direction I had never been. "I just had to see Witt's End," she
  said upon returning. "It was exactly as I expected." When we
  finished with our work, I let her lead out, which she did
  flawlessly, again because she had memorized every move in the
  game. Believe me, the cave is a real maze, and this was an
  impressive accomplishment for a first-time visitor.

  A second funny incident also reminded us of the game. About three
  years ago, a party was returning from a survey trip in Bedquilt.
  When suspended in space at the most awkward point in the climb out
  of the Hall of Mists, one party member, Roger, noticed to his
  horror a copperhead snake (was it THE SNAKE?) on the ledge next to
  his right hand. This climb is more difficult than just typing "up"
  or "down" on your computer terminal. At the top of it, you are
  stretched all the way out, pressing against one wall with hands
  behind you and against the other wall with outstretched legs,
  while fervently searching for place to put your butt or back in
  order to support your weight. You can't move anywhere quickly in
  that predicament. Confronted by the snake, Roger was so beside
  himself that all he could do was yell "strike, strike" as the
  copperhead proceeded to do just that. Tom, the party leader, had
  already made the climb up (and not seen the snake). Looking around
  for something to do, he found a stick (was it the MAGIC WAND?), in
  the Bird Chamber (the room with the rivers of orange stone,
  actually a beautiful column of orange travertine). Wand in hand,
  he moved the snake away. Fortunately, the snake lacked energy from
  having been in the 55-degree cave for a while, and Roger was
  wearing gloves and heavy caving attire. None of the snake bites
  penetrated.

  An exciting and readable history of the modern exploration of
  Mammoth Cave, up to the 1972 connection, is in "The Longest Cave"
  by Roger Brucker and Richard Watson.

  As a final irony, the Apprentice CD contains a small map of
  Bedquilt Cave and it happens to be from Willie Crowther's mapping
  data. It's in the About box for Vectors, my cave-mapping
  application that I hadn't planned to be on the CD because it is
  such an esoteric program (it's okay, Paul, you have my belated
  permission).


High Tech Humor
---------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  A few months ago, my mother called to complain about not being
  able to find computer humor books. Mom doesn't have the advantage
  of living near bookstores made from (and completely filling)
  remodeled bowling alleys, but even so, people who write computer
  books don't often branch out into the humor department. In an
  effort to fill that gap, Oak Ridge Public Relations recently
  published the High Tech Joke Book (ISBN# 0-9640105-0-X), a
  compilation of jokes regarding engineering of all sorts, academia,
  red tape, and programming. The jokes were compiled by various Oak
  Ridge employees, and submitted by hundreds of people at the
  request of Oak Ridge.

  If you've been on the nets for long, particularly if you've read
  rec.humor.funny or if you've been electronically befriended by
  someone who does, you've seen many of the jokes. The book includes
  lots of jokes that start along the lines of, "an engineer, a
  physicist, and a mathematician are asked to suggest an efficient
  method for changing a light bulb." The book ranges far and wide
  with sections on Murphy's Laws, other people's laws ("Shaw's
  Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a
  fool will want to use it"), if operating systems were cars, if
  operating systems were U.S. political candidates, wacky but real-
  life quotes from professors ("Now this is a totally brain-damaged
  algorithm. Gag me with a Smurfette"), various glossaries defining
  programming and engineering terms, and more. The book finishes
  with a section of high-tech poetry, which generally serves to
  demonstrate the lack of literary computer poetry, though I did
  like the last poem in the book, which starts, "Hubble, hubble,
  toil and trouble, NASA burn and Congress bubble / Twist of cable,
  too much slack, Mirror testing out of whack."

  The Oak Ridge press release describes High Tech Joke Book as
  "compact, measuring 5.5" x 8.5" x .5." It is enclosed in a rugged
  multi-color paper chassis. The unit comes fully loaded with all
  features required for use, including backlit screen simulation
  using high resolution black type on a white background. No
  battery, cabling, or additional documentation is required."

  I fully expect some people to find the book totally hilarious and
  others to be completely unimpressed. Such is life. Oak Ridge is
  offering TidBITS readers a 25 percent discount off of the $14.95
  list price for direct orders. Since the book is only sold in a few
  bookstores in the San Francisco Bay area (Computer Literacy
  Bookstores and the Stanford University Bookstore), direct order
  would be the way to go for most people.

  To direct order by email to Oak Ridge, send your name, address,
  phone number, credit card number, credit card expiration date, and
  how many books you want. Various reasonable prices apply for
  shipping to different areas and Californians pay state tax.

    Oak Ridge Public Relations -- 408/253-5042 -- 408/253-0936 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


MacWeb
------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  [Excerpted from Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, 2nd edition.]

  A few days ago, while browsing through comp.sys.mac.comm, I
  spotted an announcement for a new World-Wide Web browser called
  MacWeb, written by John Hardin for MCC's EINet group. The fact
  that there was only one stable Web browser available previously
  (NCSA Mosaic) made this announcement interesting, but the feature
  set, including the lusted-after forms support that Mosaic doesn't
  yet have (wait a few weeks for the beta of Mosaic 2.0 to appear),
  made MacWeb sound like a must. And, from first glance, it looks
  like MacWeb will be an essential program to have until Mosaic adds
  forms support, and then the competition will heat up.


**Installation and Setup** -- There's no installation or setup
  worth mentioning for MacWeb; essentially you connect to the
  Internet and then launch MacWeb. Since MacWeb comes preset to open
  a local home page that lives on your hard disk in MacWeb's
  Documentation folder, if you launch MacWeb without connecting to
  the Internet first via SLIP or PPP, MacWeb won't open MacTCP and
  try to dial.

  MacWeb has a few preferences, which you get to by going to the
  File menu and selecting Preferences. You can change the home page
  that MacWeb automatically accesses on launch to any valid URL; you
  can have MacWeb automatically open a specific hotlist of stored
  URLs at startup; and you can set little options, such as the
  window background color and Autoload Images (turn it off for
  faster performance over a SLIP or PPP connection). Despite
  MacWeb's Load Images This Page menu item, I'd prefer that MacWeb
  kept the option for autoloading images in the menus because I find
  that I often want to toggle that setting.

  If you don't like the way MacWeb assigns fonts to the HTML styles,
  you can change the fonts via the Edit menu in Styles dialog box.
  The Element pop-up menu and its sub-menus enable to you pick a
  style to edit, and since the styles are hierarchical, it's easy to
  set all heading styles to Helvetica, say, and then vary the font
  size for the different heading sizes. You can also modify colors
  as well, but I'd recommend restraint on the colors - colored text
  (and too many colors in text especially) can be difficult to read.


**Basic Usage** -- I always feel funny telling people how to use a
  Web browser, because it seems obvious. MacWeb is no exception, and
  in fact the basic window design looks much like Mosaic, as does
  the menu layout and features such as the Hotlist interface.

  MacWeb offers buttons for moving back and forth between places
  you've visited, a home button for bouncing back to your home page;
  a question mark button for Web search items; an editable URL field
  for copying URLs; and a status field that indicates what MacWeb is
  doing, along with a preview of what URL goes with any given link.
  My favorite part of the status line is that it often tells the
  size of the file MacWeb is accessing, and counts up as it
  retrieves the file.

  When you click on an underlined link, MacWeb promptly takes you to
  the appropriate page, and as it fills the page, you can scroll
  down. However, if MacWeb brings in a graphic, it pops back to the
  top of the page when it draws the graphic, which can make for a
  confusing jump. The Find command (from the Edit menu) helps if you
  hit a large page and want to jump directly to a certain part.

  If you find a Web resource that you wish to visit again, add it to
  your Hotlist with the Add This Document item in the Hotlist menu.
  The Hotlist menu also has a Hotlist Interface sub-menu with
  options for creating new hotlists, opening old ones, editing them,
  saving them, and so on.

  Of course, if you have a URL from a newsgroup or TidBITS, you can
  enter it manually into MacWeb by choosing Open URL from the File
  menu and typing or pasting the URL. MacWeb can also open local
  documents and can reload the page if it isn't up to date for some
  reason.


**Problems** -- You cannot select text in the main window, which
  means that you cannot copy it for use anywhere else. I do this all
  the time when I want to tell someone about a neat Web site or to
  send email to an address I see on a Web site. Copy & paste is
  essential for these tasks, and any Macintosh application should
  allow you to copy text from a text display window. This is the
  most requested feature and should be fixed soon.

  If you're used to the way Macintosh applications accept mouse
  clicks, MacWeb may confuse you. If you click on a link, the link
  activates when the mouse button goes down, not when it comes up,
  as is standard in Mac applications. John also noted that he plans
  to fix this problem quickly as well.

  Other minor irritations exist. Although MacWeb allows you to
  resize its window to any size you like, it doesn't remember the
  size; you must resize it each time if you don't like the default
  size.

  MacWeb doesn't always like being interrupted (although reports
  indicate that it's better than Mosaic 1.0.3) - if you press
  Command-Period to stop the transfer of data, the data transfer
  stops, sometimes along with your Mac, after which you must
  restart.

  Finally, there are many different types of data on the Web, and
  Mosaic handles them through a set of helper applications. MacWeb
  wants to do the same, but currently provides no interface for
  choosing helper applications. If you don't have the proper helper
  application, MacWeb claims it can't find the viewing application
  and asks if you'd like to launch one manually. Nice idea, but
  opening one in the a Standard File dialog box  doesn't currently
  work (but will be fixed). If MacWeb doesn't open helper
  applications at all, but does work if they're already running
  (experiment with a GIF and JPEGView), try rebuilding your desktop
  to update the desktop database.


**Special Features** -- Although relatively simple, MacWeb has a
  number of special features that complement its sparse interface.
  Although it has a History sub-menu under its Navigate menu, MacWeb
  also provides a shortcut for navigating to the sites you've
  previously visited - just click and hold on either the forward or
  back buttons. After a second or two, a pop-up menu appears,
  listing the history.

  When you choose Open URL to type or paste in a new URL, MacWeb
  provides a pop-up menu of hotlist items; selecting an item from
  that list pastes its URL into the URL field for you to edit if you
  so choose. It also remembers the last URL you've typed in that
  session, which is thoughtful. You can also type, paste, or edit a
  URL in the editable URL field in the main window. Once you do
  that, pressing Return or Enter opens that URL.

  In a nod to NCSA Mosaic, MacWeb can import hotlists generated by
  Mosaic. This simplifies switching to MacWeb if you have a large
  hotlist in Mosaic.

  If you decide to run with images turned off by default, you can
  load selected ones by clicking on them, as you would expect, but
  if you want to get all of the images on a page, the Options menu
  offers a Load Images This Page command, which does just what it
  says.

  MacWeb enables you to save a document as straight text (often
  strikingly ugly without the formatting you see onscreen) or as
  HTML, (useful for seeing how a certain effect has been achieved).
  If you want to view the HTML quickly, from the Options menu choose
  View Source and MacWeb generates an HTML file and opens it in
  BBEdit, TeachText, or SimpleText. Holding down the Shift key
  retrieves the page again and displays the original HTML (a subtle
  difference). Holding down the Shift and Control keys while
  selecting View Source retrieves the original HTML file and also
  retains any MIME headers sent from the server. These modifiers
  apply to all document retrieval actions, so you can load a
  document to disk, merely by Shift-clicking on a link or Shift-
  entering a URL.

  In its Navigate menu, MacWeb lists a few places that you might
  want to visit, and one of them is the EINet Galaxy, which I'm
  finding a useful launch point for finding information. EINet has
  done some interesting things, such as building a search into many
  of the navigational links, so when you see the results, not only
  do you have the few hard-coded links, but also many dynamic links
  created from the search. EINet searches a Veronica database, the
  HYTELNET database, and many places on the Web itself, so it does
  pretty well. I'd like a hard-coded link to the NCSA What's New
  page, but you can hack this one in for yourself. Edit MacWeb with
  ResEdit, and in the STR# resource, add two new fields at the end
  of the "NavigateM" resource. Call the first "NCSA What's New Page"
  and for the other, enter:

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html

  MacWeb supports two Apple events, one of which is OpenURL (OURL).
  In theory, AppleScript or another application (such as Eudora or
  NewsWatcher - plans are already in the making) could send MacWeb
  an OURL event to have it access a particular URL or respond to an
  OURL event sent from MacWeb from a mailto or news URL. EINet's
  shareware MacWAIS client supports the OURL event too, and can thus
  take special advantage of this, by handling direct WAIS
  connections for MacWeb, with the documents being sent back to
  MacWeb for viewing. You can get the necessary version of MacWAIS
  at:

ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/mac/macwais1.29.sea.hqx
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/wais/mac-wais-129.hqx

  Last, and perhaps most important at this time, is MacWeb's forms
  support. Mosaic is slated to have forms support in version 2.0,
  due out soon, but if you're impatient, you simply must get MacWeb
  and try it out. Once you run into a site with forms, you get
  fields and buttons and menus onscreen, and you can work with them
  just as though they were part of a Macintosh dialog box. For a
  sample, try searching through TidBITS with this forms-based
  interface to WAIS.

http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html


**Overall Evaluation** -- MacWeb is a excellent program in its
  early releases, and I anticipate most of the rough edges to be
  worked out in the near future. I would like to see it stray a
  little from the Mosaic model - just because Mosaic is the most
  popular Web browser out there doesn't mean that it has a lock on
  how a Web browser should look and act. In particular, the Hotlist
  feature could be improved and differentiated.

  Until the Macintosh version of Mosaic gets forms support, I expect
  MacWeb to garner a significant mindshare of the Macintosh Internet
  community. All too often I've ended up at an interesting-sounding
  Web site and then had to leave without trying it due to the lack
  of forms support in Mosaic.

  MacWeb has a surprisingly small footprint at 374K on disk, a
  welcome size given some of today's bloated applications. It
  requires less memory than many, and can run in a 700K memory
  partition (don't believe the 2,048K number in the Get Info dialog
  box). Perhaps because of its small size, it feels faster and more
  responsive than Mosaic.


**Administrative Details** -- MacWeb was written by John Hardin of
  the EINet group of MCC, the Microelectronics and Computer
  Technology Corporation (and no, I don't know how they get that
  acronym to work). MCC has released MacWeb as freeware for
  academic, research, or personal use; companies should contact MCC
  for licensing information. To report problems with or make
  suggestions about MacWeb, send email to <[e-mail]>. You
  can retrieve the current version of MacWeb on the Internet at:

ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/mac/macweb/macweb0.98alpha.sea.hqx
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/www/mac-web-098a.hqx


Reviews/06-Jun-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 30-May-94, Vol. 8, #22
    Macintosh PowerBook Duo 280 and 280c -- pg. 1
    Timbuktu Pro 1.0 -- pg. 31


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