>i have a situation where on a linux server i m running
>a middleware system which is to invoke a COBOL
>application on a windows 2000 server on the same
>network.
same network???
>how can i do it ? RMI ? or some listening application
>needs to be installed on the win2K m/c that will
>listen to linux servers request to run a program ?
thats one possible way... but its too bad..
what language are u doing ur middle ware in? If you are using JAVA
which I assume u must be using... try doing Native Methods and use
a C wrapper for ur application...
lengthy route... but you get a tight system.
Regards,
Rolla.
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 SP wrote :
>I am using 7.2 with XFS.
>The GNOME login screen does not allow root login.
>I need to login as any other user and then always "su"
>to root.
>Any help on this please.
>
>--SP
I'd recommend 7.2 only on a P4... The problem is unuasual... I
couldn't even replicate it.. :P. SP next time please give your
mail a subject.
Regards,
Rolla.
I don't seem to fathom the fixation of comparing Desktops?
To put it very simply Desktops are for personal users!
In govt / educations / business uses the stress should be on purpose built
applications. There is no need for fancy desktops!
MS is a PERSONAL COMPUTER user (CONSUMER) oriented product. I have seen
friends and colleagues buying upgrading their pcs just so that they can talk
about it with your friends / colleagues who have just got it. Its like your
wife demanding a fully loaded BMW to drop the child to the school just
because your neighbour does it in her fully loaded MERC!! It the MO thing,
MO GRAPHICS, MO MULTIMEDIA, MO MONEY .......
I bet 90% of the users don't use 90% of its features.
Specially in case of India S/w for govt / education / etc it should be no -
nonsense, no frills attached, lean and trim and think Linux fits the bill.
Parimal Shah
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:07:28 +0530 (IST)
From: Philip S Tellis <philip.tellis(a)iname.com>
To: Linux Users <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Keyur Shroff wrote:
> "Linux India Initiatives"
>
> Information may kindly be furnised under the following heads :
> 1. Linux - The need;
> 2. Demand profile segments - such as Home, Education, Research, Govt,
> Defence, Business, Embedded systems etc.
India is a developing country, and as such, we should look to finding low
cost solutions while not compromising on quality. While our software
industry has been successful world-wide in providing solutions for
business consumers, software as a product remains too costly within our
own country. We must also realise that much of the software in use within
our country comes from outside. This in turn translates to a large sum of
Indian Rupees flowing into foreign companies.
Most proprietary software comes with a licence agreement that restricts
the redistribution of the software. Persons who do redistribute the
software, in violation of the licence, are labelled as software pirates.
While it is accpeted that software piracy is a problem and must be
curtailed, it is also possible that we aren't striking at the cause of the
problem.
What most software consumers fail to realise, is that software is not a
product that one buys off the shelf like a tube of toothpaste. The
reproduction costs of software are negligible and there are no raw
materials involved. The software industry is therefore falls into the
services sector rather than the manufacturing sector. More time is spent
in providing support for software than is spent in developing it.
Once this is understood, it becomes clear that the software itself should
not be priced highly, but after sales service and support should be
charged for.
This is where the GNU/Linux system fits in. The licencing terms of this
system state clearly that anyone has the right to obtain and redistribute
copies of the system. The software is provided free of cost.
This immediately affects the business of software pirates, as there is no
way for them to sell at a lower price that which is already free. Further
more, it translates into greater cost effectiveness for the consumer.
There then arises the question of support and services, which is what this
sector is all about. As mentioned earlier, software falls in the services
sector, and therefore, the primary business for linux vendors is in
providing services.
This is one area in which India can play a big role, and provide these
services to the rest of the world.
As consumers too, one must realise the difference between support
contracts for proprietary software and free software. Proprietary
support agreements give you support only for the systems that you have
purchased support for. In other words, if you own ten systems, but only
have licences for five of them, you will get support for those five only.
With free software, this is not the case. Any software contract that you
sign with your vendor is independent of the number of copies of the
software that you own. Most vendors will most likely just require that
the distribution that you use was one published by them.
There are several segments in which linux can play a major role, and is
ready to do so at present.
Linux and other free Unixen like *BSD have been very popular as servers.
These systems are robust and have average uptimes that run into years.
Add to this the ability of linux to emulate legacy file servers like
Windows NT and Novell Netware (using samba and mars-nwe), and you have a
system that can do well to replace any server running these systems.
Businesses could do well to adopt it if only on the server side. The
reduction in costs would be tremendous, and uptime would increase.
One also needs to consider that a well set up linux system needs almost no
system administration or maintenance.
When considering client side applications of linux, we would need to
divide the business sector into those that develop software, and those
that use it. Software developers may need to use systems for which they
develop, ie, someone developing for Windows would have to test his
software on Windows.
For persons who simply use software, it is much easier to use a linux
based system. All software needed can be installed centrally, with client
machines acting as simple X displays. This can significantly reduce the
hardware requirements of the company, while also ensuring that a sysadmin
needs to maintain only a single machine rather than the fifty machines
that the company has.
Most office productivity tools are available for linux. Word processors,
spread sheets, and presentation utilities exist with several variants
avaialable depending on your preferences. Legacy applications written for
DOS or Windows can be run in emulated environments like dosemu or Wine.
For research institutes, the main appeal of linux would have to be the
large community that uses it and the spirit of sharing ideas between
groups. In many ways, the development of the GNU/Linux system has
proceeded in much the same way as science has progressed over the last two
centuries. There is open collaboration between groups at distant
locations with everyone benefitting.
With large numbers of universities around the world using some variant of
unix or linux as their base systems, persons in India could benefit from
the existing knowledge and experiences of these.
This large community of scientific users has resulted in a plethora of
software written specifically to aid in research, and built to run on
linux based systems.
Educational institutes, at least those running courses on engineering and
computers benefit for the same reasons. Additionally, students of
computer science and engineering benefit from having the source code of a
working operating system to look at and experiment with. Regardless of
the field of computer science that they specialise in, having access to
the source code for the tools they use and possibly try to develop will
help them eventually.
Another place where educational institutes can benefit is from the ready
availability of projects that can be given to students as classroom
assignments or semester projects. By working on an existing project,
possibly collaborating with other developers around the world, the student
gets a good idea of what it is like to work in a team and develop quality
software, rather than writing the same old ten line assignments every
year. Building a working software that is actually used by people, and
then providing support to them builds in the student a sense of
achievement and responsibility.
This can only work towards producing a much more capable work force
graduating from college every year.
School education can also benefit from the use of linux. Cost reduction
would be the primary reason. Schools would however benefit from the large
amount of educational software available for linux. Students of higher
classes can even be recruited to write software for students of lower
classes. Computers are already taught in school at all levels, but what
is taught leaves a lot to be desired.
At present students learn to use specific software, as a result of which,
they are none the wiser when confronted with a new system. Giving
students some variety in what they learn, or even allowing them to learn
how to get the job done rather than how to use a tool would leave them
better off later in life.
There is of course a lot more that I could write about this topic, but
right now my eyes are closing and I can't stay focussed any longer.
Will try and write something about why developers benefit from developing
for free software.
Ciao,
Philip
--
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:19:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Girish Hanchate <girishhan(a)yahoo.com>
To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] qmail book
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi,
can anybody suggest same good book on qmail on linux
or any informative sites on qmail.
Rgds
girish
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Message: 3
From: "nici bhatt" <nici_bom(a)hotmail.com>
To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:51:30 +0000
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi
It is really good to know that out government is willing to promote linux ,
it will be really good idea to push this at extreme level so no doubt can
cause this idea a premature death.
Here I have some points to raise my voice for, and they are as we should
not make any point which make this operating system is nice for
email,firewall and proxy...etc. specific as I have seen lots of people use
linux for this purpose so my request to all of you is dont try to prove
that by doing this we can save lots of money because we know that this true
but on other side you are doing injustice to all open source developers who
have put their efforts for porting other application and this full scal os
limits to one corner.
So moral of story please come out of this mind frame that this is all linux
can do. There are lot many things that can be done. So keep vary general
attitude and try to justify it commercially as well as technical aspect of
the operating system, I mean limitation of other operating system,
commercial and technical comparison chart and availability.
I will defiantly like to write some article on this issue but that will take
some time so till then you people can contribute lots .
Happy usage of linux.
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Message: 4
From: ranjeet(a)nttindia.com
To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:11:26 GMT
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Re: qmail book
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi girish.
http://www.qmail.org/http://cr.yp.to/qmail.htmlhttp://www.lifewithqmail.org/
our trevor's SITE : (works very well)
http://www.qmailtheeasyway.com/
now before posting always make sure that u have checked the LIST archives,
www.google.com/linux.
Don't just get spoonfeeded by others ..... they will like it if u do some
part on ur own and come up with the difficulties while
installing/configure/tweaking or something like it .....
if I'm wrong, please correct me luggers..
Regards,
Ranjeet
Girish Hanchate writes:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody suggest same good book on qmail on linux
> or any informative sites on qmail.
>
> Rgds
> girish
>
>
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Message: 5
From: "Parag Mehta" <pm(a)linuxindia.org>
To: "linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:29:01 +0550
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] qmail book
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi Girish,
lifewithqmail.org
or book on qmail from sams publichers
very good book..
best regards,
pmehta
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:19:36 -0700 (PDT), Girish Hanchate wrote:
>Hi,
>
>can anybody suggest same good book on qmail on linux
>or any informative sites on qmail.
>
>Rgds
>girish
>
>
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:35:55 +0530 (IST)
From: RNS <shastrakar(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in>
To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi group,
Trevor good work , but as Keyur said , try not to defame MS ( though they
deserve to ) , remember who your audience are ( Somewhere u mentioned
M$crosoft-please remove it). Moreover, few stuffs which ppl think makes
win score over gnu-linux (atleast on thier desktop ) is user-
friendlyness, though this hurdle has been tackled to large extend-
ppl dont realize it. I think that has to b stressed more
, along with linux strong points like security and upgradibility. Other
stuffs seems to b fine.
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:21:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Keyur Shroff <keyur(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in>
To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi Guys,
Thanks for your valuable inputs. I have just sent them mail
requesting them to give us one more day to send final draft. So
tomorrow I'll reorganize contents given by many of you and then send
it. By that time if you still want to add something please send your
mails by tomorrow before 1 PM.
Thanks,
Keyur
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Message: 8
To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux
From: Darshan.Wakchaure(a)lntinfotech.com
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:14:30 +0530
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
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Hi,
A little more from my side too. Linux is/should be treated just like
anyother Desktop OS. Like Unix and Windows , Linux can be made as a server
with much more flexible environment . At the same time this OS has more
more power as a Desktop OS as compared to any other operating system in
the market. The strength lies in understanding and working with the
utilities provided by the open source community. These are simple
marvellous.
Also the graphics resolution on the desktop of this os is far better
than Windows. Linux gives the feel of Unix and the easy of Windows- a
perfect os.
Cheers,
Darshan
The trouble with life is, you're half way through it before you realize
it's a "do it yourself" thing.
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">A little more from my side too. Linux
is/should be treated just like anyother Desktop OS. Like Unix and Windows ,
Linux can be made as a server with much more flexible environment . At the
same time this OS has more more power as a Desktop OS as compared to any
other operating system in the market. The strength lies in understanding and
working with the utilities provided by the open source community. These are
simple marvellous.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Also the graphics resolution on the
desktop of this os is far better than Windows. Linux gives the feel of
Unix and the easy of Windows- a perfect os. </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cheers,<br>
Darshan</font>
<br>
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through it before you realize it's a "do it yourself" thing. <br>
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:05:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Trevor Warren <trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux......a la carte
To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
--- Keyur Shroff <keyur(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in> wrote:
> From: Keyur Shroff <keyur(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in>
> To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
> Many many thanks Mr Trevor Warren. You have >nicely
[snip]
hello there Mr. Keyur,
Trevor here.........
U can just say sir, i am just doin my bit for the
community that has given me somethin that i live for
and i am proud to be part of.
I think Philip has put forward some very good points
wich you could make incorporate in ur presentation abt
Linux advocacy.
If there is anyway i may help to push Free Software
usage in our upcoming policies of E-governance
.........just mail me nd let me know. Attack will b
the buzz word...;)
Trevor Warren
> put your
> thoughts. It seems to me that not many people on
> this list are
> really interested in promoting Linux. Or that they
> have not taken this
> very seriously. Or they don't have much faith in our
> Government.
> Thanks and regards,
> Keyur
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:46:14 +0530 (IST)
From: Philip S Tellis <philip.tellis(a)iname.com>
To: Linux Users <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Promoting Linux
Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say:
> Open source software is different from traditional software in that
> it holds no secrets -- the software's 'source code' is free for the
> end user to examine, modify, or build on. With traditional
Not true. Open source simply gives you access to the source code. It
makes no provision for the modification or redistribution of that code.
Free software gives you that freedom.
> The Internet itself is Open Source Software's poster child, since
> it was constructed of components built almost exclusively under the
> Open Source model. Many, in fact, have likened Linux today to the
> Internet in 1990 (used only by the technically savvy, seeing yearly
> exponential growth, completely open, and perhaps poised to take over
> the world).
The seeds for the Internet were sown in 1969. It grew as a large
experiment and yes, was used by geeks and scientists only.
> Open Source is doing what God, government, and market have failed to
> do. It is putting powerful technology within the reach of cash-poor
Well, not what God, or government have failed to do. It's just that
corporates have tried to stop it forever. The concept of free software
has been around as long as there have been programmers. Proprietary
software is only about 30 years old.
Philip
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End of Linuxers Digest
I am using 7.2 with XFS.
The GNOME login screen does not allow root login.
I need to login as any other user and then always "su"
to root.
Any help on this please.
--SP
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I don't seem to fathom the fixation of comparing Desktops?
To put it very simply Desktops are for personal users!
In govt / educations / business uses the stress should be on purpose built
applications. There is no need for fancy desktops!
MS is a PERSONAL COMPUTER user (CONSUMER) oriented product. I have seen
friends and colleagues buying upgrading their pcs just so that they can talk
about it with your friends / colleagues who have just got it. Its like your
wife demanding a fully loaded BMW to drop the child to the school just
because your neighbour does it in her fully loaded MERC!! It the MO thing,
MO GRAPHICS, MO MULTIMEDIA, MO MONEY .......
I bet 90% of the users don't use 90% of its features.
Specially in case of India S/w for govt / education / etc it should be no -
nonsense, no frills attached, lean and trim and think Linux fits the bill.
Parimal Shah
--- Keyur Shroff <keyur(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in> wrote:
> From: Keyur Shroff <keyur(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in>
> To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
> Many many thanks Mr Trevor Warren. You have >nicely
[snip]
hello there Mr. Keyur,
Trevor here.........
U can just say sir, i am just doin my bit for the
community that has given me somethin that i live for
and i am proud to be part of.
I think Philip has put forward some very good points
wich you could make incorporate in ur presentation abt
Linux advocacy.
If there is anyway i may help to push Free Software
usage in our upcoming policies of E-governance
.........just mail me nd let me know. Attack will b
the buzz word...;)
Trevor Warren
> put your
> thoughts. It seems to me that not many people on
> this list are
> really interested in promoting Linux. Or that they
> have not taken this
> very seriously. Or they don't have much faith in our
> Government.
> Thanks and regards,
> Keyur
=====
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Hi,
A little more from my side too. Linux is/should be treated just like
anyother Desktop OS. Like Unix and Windows , Linux can be made as a server
with much more flexible environment . At the same time this OS has more
more power as a Desktop OS as compared to any other operating system in
the market. The strength lies in understanding and working with the
utilities provided by the open source community. These are simple
marvellous.
Also the graphics resolution on the desktop of this os is far better
than Windows. Linux gives the feel of Unix and the easy of Windows- a
perfect os.
Cheers,
Darshan
The trouble with life is, you're half way through it before you realize
it's a "do it yourself" thing.
===========================
_\ /_ mail-me-at : darshanw(a)blackcodemail.com
/ \
===========================
Hi,
can anybody suggest same good book on qmail on linux
or any informative sites on qmail.
Rgds
girish
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Hi
It is really good to know that out government is willing to promote linux ,
it will be really good idea to push this at extreme level so no doubt can
cause this idea a premature death.
Here I have some points to raise my voice for, and they are as we should
not make any point which make this operating system is nice for
email,firewall and proxy...etc. specific as I have seen lots of people use
linux for this purpose so my request to all of you is dont try to prove
that by doing this we can save lots of money because we know that this true
but on other side you are doing injustice to all open source developers who
have put their efforts for porting other application and this full scal os
limits to one corner.
So moral of story please come out of this mind frame that this is all linux
can do. There are lot many things that can be done. So keep vary general
attitude and try to justify it commercially as well as technical aspect of
the operating system, I mean limitation of other operating system,
commercial and technical comparison chart and availability.
I will defiantly like to write some article on this issue but that will take
some time so till then you people can contribute lots .
Happy usage of linux.
_________________________________________________________________
Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Hey Keyur -
This is my 2pence - (subject to critical review of the grp :))
Im sorry for the late reply, though, man -
Under the heading
Demand profile segments - Education -
Competent training in the academia demands the availability of
wide range of resources. These resources need to be in the form of example
source code, Workable Systems, whose internals can be studied. As an
example, Many US universities, have switched from Unix based classes in
Operating Systems to Linux and GNU - Based OS, because of the free
availability of source code and the opportunity for students to experiment
with a reconfigurable system. Students in many Indian universities and
colleges too are demanding the prescence of such reconfigurable labs in
their premises. If there is official coursework that enables them to use
such resources, it would be a great help.
Linux and GNU - Software provides to the academia an excellent
platform to test their skills, learn and apply them to real-time
situations. The usage of GNU - based software in scientific fields like
Supercomputing, Image Processing, AI, and other related fileds is
already very widespread - it only to be identified. Most of the toolboxes
developed by US university labs (and other universities too) includes OSC s/w.
Support for OSC is not just in the form of company-based support
as in proprietory s/w like windows. Due to the OSC nature of the
s/w resources, A large number of user and help groups are available
online. This takes education out of the classroom - Making knowledge
widely available and affordable.
Usage of Linux in the academia is not something that needs numbers
to prove itself. It is pure common sense - The academia needs the most
information and knowledge it can get - and OSC provides at every student
the support, help and encouragement of thousands of OSC programmers all
over the world. Need we say more?
Hey yes - forgot to add - Lets see a non-OSC s/w do its' thing
like OSC s/w does on a REALLY old machine - OSC software exists that can
run on very basic systems - Very cheap systems could be of great use
to educational organizations. This will enable even wider reach of
resources at a lower cost.
Action Plan -
Introduce Linux and OSC based s/w as a defacto standard in Indian
educational institutes. Developing coursework that encourages students to
use such systems, and more importantly, learn how such systems are
different from non-OSC systems.
Encourage the use and development of re-distributable toolboxes
among research organizations.
Enjoy!!!!
Bye,
SP
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Keyur Shroff
wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> A good news is that our central government is also taking deep
> interest in promoting Linux in all area. Government wants various
> agencies to give some feedback on the information related to
> Linux. They have sent a draft to NCST also.
>
> I think this mailing list is the best place where I can post the
> questions and get answers so that I can forward the information to our
> government. Please give as much input as you can.
>
> I am directing the revised information/feedback format on "Linux
> India Initiatives" for your kind consideration and input. The format
> is as follows :
>
> "Linux India Initiatives"
>
> Information may kindly be furnised under the following heads :
> 1. Linux - The need;
> 2. Demand profile segments - such as Home, Education, Research, Govt,
> Defence, Business, Embedded systems etc.
> 3. Present scenario (International) vs competing products
> 4. Issues to resolve :
> (i) Indian Language Support
> (ii) Security
> (iii) Awareness/education
> (iv) Certification
> (v) Standardisation
> (vi) Service Model vs product model
> (vii) Identification of minimal set of application
> 5. Transition strategy - Unix to Linux, legacy port
> 6. Consortium for linux based collaborative Development?
> The Li18nux, OSDL, LSB...?
> 7. Action Plan
>
> Kindly send your views/comments as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Keyur
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
>
>
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