Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #846
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 23:13:12 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #846, Volume #2                Thu, 29 Sep 94 23:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  Re: xfree 3.2 (Andrew Robert Ellsworth)
  Are Micron Powerstations good Linux machines? (Chris Harris)
  Re: pkzip for dos? (Cave Newt)
  Re: pkzip for dos? (Cave Newt)
  Re: 3D CAD for Linux? Help! (Michael James Porter)
  Adeptic 1522 vs. 1542... (Derrik Walker II)
  where to get the texbook (Hans Petter Fasteng)
  Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? (Mitchum DSouza)
  Where to get iBCS (Mike Jagdis)
  Mosaic dies (Dongxiao Yue)
  Re: How Old Is Linus? (Terence S. Murphy)
  Re: Maple V for linux! (William Huang)
  Re: Tierra on Linux (carl patterson)
  Re: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev) (Janne Kukonlehto)
  Re: Assembler for LINUX??? (Drew Eckhardt)
  efax problem? (Udaya B. Vemulapati)
  PPP chat script (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan)
  Re: 256 colors on laptop X (Dan Pop)
  Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD? (Dan Pop)
  Re: Maple V for linux! (Harald Milz)
  Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD? ("Eric Jeschke")

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Robert Ellsworth)
Subject: Re: xfree 3.2
Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:50:34 -0500

>Ok when and where will this be availble.....

Chances are it'll be a while, since XFree86 3.1 is supposed to be out in a
couple of days....

Andy Ellsworth
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Harris)
Subject: Are Micron Powerstations good Linux machines?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 00:56:40 GMT

Hello Folks,
      I'm considering buying a P90PCI or P66PCI Powerstation from Micron 
as a new PC.  I'd like to run Linux as the primary OS, so I first wanted
to make sure it is an okay machine to run it on.  The machine I'm looking
for has the following components:

Intel 90MHz/66MHz Pentium

256K 15ns cache

16MB 70ns RAM, expandable to 192MB

4 ISA slots, 2 PCI slots, and 1 ISA/PCI slot

Phoenix flash BIOS

Intel's Neptune PCI chipset

3.5" floppy

Mitsumi 280ms double-spin CD-ROM (IDE)

527MB (10ms) IDE hard drive (Connor)

15'' Micron 15FGx SuperVGA, non-interlaced screen, 1280 x 1024, .28dp

1 parallel port, and two 16550-compatible serial ports

Diamond SpeedStar 64 PCI 2MD DRAM video card

      I'd be primarily be using the machine for development, and running 
X full-time would be nice too.  The reviews of the machine seem to be 
quite good, at least when windows places are reviewing it.  Basically, 
I'm looking for any additional thigns I should take into consideration 
for running unix or Linux in particular.
      There are a few gotchas I can see with the bundle, and if you can 
point out any others, that'd be great.  First, the diamond card is 
obviously not supported by XFree86.  Therefore, I need to find a 
replacement.  For a bit more $, they offer a Matrox MGA II+ PCI 2MB card, 
which looks like a good buy, except it doesn't look like that's supported 
either.  Does anybody know if it is being worked on, or how hard it would 
be to add support?  If that's not a feasable option, they allow you to 
drop the monitor and video card and save $350.  Would it be better to buy 
a more standard setup from a local store?
      It also doesn't look like Linux supports any IDE CD-ROMs, so I'd 
probably need to replace it with a SCSI equivlent.  They offer a Plextor 
DM-3028 SCSI-2 2X drive, which sounds like it'd be okay, but I'm not sure.

      Any ideas or suggestions would be appriciated.
      
Thanks!

-Chris
-- 
"If patterns of 1s and 0s were 'like' patterns of human lives and death,
if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer by a
long string of 1s and 0s, then what kind of creature would be represented
by a long string of lives and deaths?"  --Thomas Pynchon

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Cave Newt)
Subject: Re: pkzip for dos?
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:24:24 GMT

[email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin) writes:

>What's about unzipping multi-volume pkZIP-files? Until now the only way
>to unzip them was using dosemu. Or am I missing something?

No, multi-part archives are still not supported.  But why are you using
PKZIP for that anyway?  ARJ's multivolume support currently is much better.

Greg Roelofs
Info-ZIP (obviously not an ARJ fan)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Cave Newt)
Subject: Re: pkzip for dos?
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:18:19 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:

>: Does Linux have a utility to pkunzip DOS .zip files?  If yes, would
>: you tell what site it is on?  

[email-masked] (Christopher M. May) writes:

>It's on sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/utils/compress/unzip51.tgz

Actually unzip512.tar.gz (sources/docs) and unz512x.tar.gz (exes/docs).
Also in ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/LINUX (home site).

Greg Roelofs
Info-ZIP UnZip guy

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From: [email-masked] (Michael James Porter)
Subject: Re: 3D CAD for Linux? Help!
Date: 29 Sep 1994 13:28:07 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
P. Enrico <[email-masked]> wrote:
=>Hi all,
=>
=>I'm desperately looking for a good 3D CAD for Linux, doesn't matter (well..) 
=>if is free or not. So far I've only found Siscad, but it's first a 2D CAD 
=>and then it's also (unfortunately) in german!

I was able to run DesignCad under DOSemu.  This isn't entirely a joke
either.  One of the slow things to do under DesignCad is printing.  It
was much faster to print to a postscript printer and have ghostscript
convert it to Cannon BubbleJet output than have DesignCad rasterize the
drawing in DOS.  (DOSemu will route LPT: output to Linux 'lp'.  lpr can
run ghostscript...)

I didn't try the 3-D version of the program, but I can if you are
seriously interested.

Mike

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From: [email-masked] (Derrik Walker II)
Subject: Adeptic 1522 vs. 1542...
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:26:49 GMT

[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage ]
[ Author was Derrik Walker II ]
[ Posted on Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:21:07 GMT ]

Since it appears that I can get a 1522 for around $80.00 and a 1542 for 
around $200.00, what I want to know is why I should get the 1542?  Is it 
better or more realiable than the 1522?

I will be using this in a 486 linux work station.

any advice appreciated..

-Derrik
===============================================================================
 Derrik Walker II                                 Student of Computer Sciences
 Cleveland State University                  Automation Assistant, Law Library
 [email-masked]                            [email-masked]
===============================================================================
        http://pclab19.law.csuohio.edu:8099/html/dwalker/home.html

--

-Derrik
===============================================================================
 Derrik Walker II                                 Student of Computer Sciences
 Cleveland State University                  Automation Assistant, Law Library
 [email-masked]                            [email-masked]
===============================================================================
        http://pclab19.law.csuohio.edu:8099/html/dwalker/home.html

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From: [email-masked] (Hans Petter Fasteng)
Subject: where to get the texbook
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:30:55 GMT

I hope to learn how to make docs in tex, I also hoped to make info pages and
I think I need the texbook to do this.  Where can I get this book or books?

-Hans

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
Date: 28 Sep 1994 10:50:51 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Frank B.
Brokken) writes:
|> [email-masked] (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
|> 
|> >Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
|> >The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
|> >post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.
|> 
|> >So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
|> >with zero problems).  What is this other AMD?
|> 
|> >RNA
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> >In article <[email-masked]>,
|> >Sean Watkins <[email-masked]> wrote:
|> >>
|> >>Hi,
|> >>
|> >>After labouring several hours to get AMD working, I have come to the
|> >>ultimate conclusion that AMD coupled with NIS under Linux is broken.
|> >>Following example summarizes:
|> >>
|> >>Let the auto.home map be equal to:
|> >>
|> >>gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
|> >>www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
|> >>other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other      
|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
|> >>ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
|> >>staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff
|> host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
|> >>cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust        
|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
|> >>
|> >>
|> >>NIS Querys of this map anywhere succeed --
|> >>
|> >>pc06 ~ % ypcat -k auto.home
|> >>gopher type:=link;fs:=/home/other/gopher
|> >>www type:=link;fs:=/home/other/www
|> >>other host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/other      
|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/other
|> >>ftp type:=link;fs:=/home/other/ftp
|> >>staff host!=server02;type:=nfs;rhost:=server02;rfs:=/staff
|> host==server02;type:=link;fs:=/staff
|> >>cust host!=dns;type:=nfs;rhost:=dns;rfs:=/scsi/cust        
|> host==dns;type:=link;fs:=/scsi/cust
|> >>pc06 ~ %
|> >>
|> >>
|> >>Amd -v reveals:
|> >>pc06 ~ % amd -v
|> >>Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
|> >>Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
|> >>Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
|> >>Unofficial patch level 67.
|> >>amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-beta #0: Mon Aug 29 11:39:51 MDT
|> 1994
|> >>Built by root@pc01 for an i486 running linux version 1.1.34
|> (little-endian).
|> >>Map support for: root, passwd, union, file, error.
|> >>FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, pcfs, program, union, auto,
|> >>    direct, toplvl, error.
|> >>    Primary network: primnetname="x.x.x.x" (primnetnum=x.x.x).
|> >>No Subsidiary network.
|> >>pc06 ~ %
|> >>(x.x.x.x have been replaced)
|> >>
|> >>Invocation of amd reveals:
|> >>pc06 ~ % amd -a /tmp_mnt /home auto.home
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[412]/info:  My ip addr is 0x100007f
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info:  file server localhost type local
|> starts up
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: type nfs
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: version 1
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: fd 6
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: hostname 127.0.0.1
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: port 1023
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: fsname pc06:(pid413)
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: type (mntent) auto
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: opts
|> intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[414]/info:  linux mount: dir /home
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/user:  No source data for map auto.home
|> >>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> >>Sep 25 10:59:33 pc06 amd[413]/info:  auto.home mounted fstype toplvl on
|> /home
|> >>pc06 ~ %
|> >>
|> >>Ideas??? If I ypcat -k auto.home > /etc/auto.home then do amd -a /tmp_mnt
|> >>/home /etc/auto.home it is successfull...
|> >>

It is widely recogonized that YP with AMD is not a very good idea. As you
can provide AMD with commands on the startup line then I suggest something like

        % amd -a /tmp_mnt -- /home `ypcat -k auto.home`

Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Where to get iBCS
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 19:52:00 +0000

* In message <[email-masked]>, Zeke Miller said:

CM> I have seen iBCS mentioned in several threads and would like
CM> to know where I can get the emulator.  Thanks for any help.

tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2

                                Mike  

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Dongxiao Yue)
Subject: Mosaic dies
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:56:26 GMT

When I run xmosiac for linux, it spit out
Connect:no such file or directory
and aborted.

I suppose this happens when it can to open a file named "Connect:",
can someone tell me what is this file and where to put it? 

Dongxiao

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From: [email-masked] (Terence S. Murphy)
Subject: Re: How Old Is Linus?
Date: 28 Sep 1994 02:35:05 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
H. Peter Anvin <[email-masked]> wrote:

>His exact birthdate is encoded in the kernel.  (I am not telling
>where, though.)

Holy cow!  I just downloaded the Linux News #3 which Lars Wirzenius just
mentioned, and in it Linus says, "I'm 22 (as some avid kernel source
readers have already found out: there is a hidden clue in there somewhere...)"
So is anybody going to give some details on exactly where I can find
this piece of information?  I grepped through the source for things such 
as 69 but couldn't find it.  Hmm...  It probably has something to with
the time starting at 1/1/70 since he would have been born within a few
months before that.  

-- 
Terry Murphy | UIUC Frosh/CS Major  | "The whole world has been made again" -
Marillion | There ought to be an alt.fan.linus-torvalds! |  "The S.A.T is not
geared for the lower class so why waste time even trying to pass?"-Gang Starr
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude"-H.D.Thoreau

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From: [email-masked] (William Huang)
Subject: Re: Maple V for linux!
Date: 28 Sep 94 23:15:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (NightHawk) writes:
!William Huang ([email-masked]) wrote:
!: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Shannon Hendrix) writes:
!: [email-masked] (Scott Weinstein) writes:
!: !
!
!: I'll be really impressed when they get Matlab working for Linux.
!
!Matlab was ported to Linux more than a year ago in Mar. 1993. But for
!whatever reason, it was not released. Please send emails to 
[email-masked].
!
!Please don't send emails to me.
!
!Thanks.
!
!
!NH

Knowing mathworks, they're probably perfecting their liscense
manager for Linux, so that if you tried to violate their liscence,
your SCSI disk drive head will gouge the magnetic media.

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From: [email-masked] (carl patterson)
Subject: Re: Tierra on Linux
Date: 28 Sep 1994 12:02:06 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (zachary brown) says:
>
>Hi! Has anyone got Tierra (or any other AI/ALife program) working under
>Linux, and if so could you tell me where to get it and how to build it
>(if it requires special building for Linux)?
>
Tierra itself runs fine, I think I just used the sysv5 def in the makefile.
I haven't tried working on the graphical browser for a bit, but my first couple tries 
didn't work. I remember thinking it would take a bit of time and haven't gone
back to it yet.
You can get it from the alife site alife.santafe.edu along with plenty of other
goodies.

enjoy it,
carl

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From: [email-masked] (Janne Kukonlehto)
Subject: Re: Beers for Linus (was: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev)
Date: 28 Sep 1994 18:05:17 GMT

David K. Merriman <[email-masked]> wrote: 
> In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
> >(One of the obvious things to work on is electronic transmission
> >of bottles & alcoholic contents by internet)
> 
> You mean uuencoding or MIME don't work?  Bummer.
> 

MIME does work. Take a look at RFC 1437: "The Extension of MIME
Content-Types to a New Medium" which discusses about matter transport.

-- 
Janne Kukonlehto        http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto

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From: [email-masked] (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Assembler for LINUX???
Date: 27 Sep 1994 19:35:07 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
greek <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is any assembler available for linux?  

Yes - Linux uses the GNU assembler, which is included in the 
binutils binary distribution from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/GCC.

>Something like Macro Assembler?  

Yes and no -

No - Linux is unix (or at least as close as you can get without 
    some one suiing you), so there shouldn't be a macro assembler
    since you can have the same effect with simpler tools.

    The Linux as is also intended to assemble compiler output, 
    and not human generated code.

Yes - take cpp, m4, or macro language of your choice to pre-process
    assembler input.

-- 
Since our leaders won't respect The Constitution, the highest law of our 
country, you can't expect them to obey lesser laws of any country. 
Boycott the United States until this changes.

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From: [email-masked] (Udaya B. Vemulapati)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: efax problem?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:26:27 -0400

Folks,
        This is my second posting about this problem. Hopefully, I'll
get advice from the fellow netters this time.
        When I run "fax wait" to keep the "efax" running always ready to
receive incoming faxes, I've trouble using the modem for out-going connections.
Yes, I set-up my "efax" as well as my "pppd" to use UUCP-lock files. Yes, I
gave "-s" switch to "efax" to release the lock file while waiting for
action on the fax.
        The problem I've is that when "pppd" dials the modem (on an outgoing
connection), I hear ***beep--beep--beep** from the modem (as if it is ready
to receive a fax, those fax beeps). Even if then kill my efx/fax processes,
and reset my modem through "minicom" at&F command, it still does that. 
        In fact, the only way for me seems to be to "re-boot" the m/c. Any
pointers are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Uday.

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From: [email-masked] (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan)
Subject: PPP chat script
Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:00:48 GMT

Please, please, please....I need a chat script for PPP login.
I am open for any contribution :-))

Thanx

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From: [email-masked] (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: 256 colors on laptop X
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:48:21 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] () writes:

>VGA16 seems to be the only mode detected by X when I start up on an NEC
>UltraLite. I looked at the sample Xconfigs and found that the toshiba
>laptop only listed VGA16 as well. Is there some inherent limitation here
>or can I get 256 colors on my laptop? I know it can handle it since
>windows runs with 256 colors.

The limitation is that your graphics hardware is not supported by the
VGA256 server. The only way to solve the problem is to write a driver
for your chipset and include it in the VGA256 server. Or hope that
someone else will do that :-)

Dan
--
Dan Pop 
CERN, CN Division
Email: [email-masked]
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.os.386bsd.misc
From: [email-masked] (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:57:17 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Po-Han Lin) writes:

>If one has a pc compatible with a 486, which OS is the best unix
>operating system?  QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?  

You forgot to tell us what you mean by "the best unix operating system".
Or specify a method of comparing two OS's. So, your question is 
meaningless.

Dan
--
Dan Pop 
CERN, CN Division
Email: [email-masked]
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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From: [email-masked] (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Maple V for linux!
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:36:40 GMT

In comp.os.linux.misc, Scott Weinstein ([email-masked]) wrote:
> I havn't seen anything on the newsgroups about this... Maple V is
> available for Linux. It looks and runs just like the Solaris version. 

Yeah, and it's not only Maple V. It's all in the Commercial-HOWTO
on ftp.ix.de. I tried to announce it in c.o.l.a, but it seems to have
vanished. Matt, you hear me?

-- 
President Thieu says he'll quit if he doesn't get more than 50% of the
vote.  In a democracy, that's not called quitting.
                -- The Washington Post
-- 
Harald Milz ([email-masked])      WWW: http://www.ix.de/editors/hm.html
iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine      phone +49 (511) 53 52-377
Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover     fax   +49 (511) 53 52-378
Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's.

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From: "Eric Jeschke" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Linux AMD Problems---WHICH AMD?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:01:43 -0500

[email-masked] (Robert Ashcroft) writes:

:Could you perhaps be a little more clear by what you mean by AMD?
:The subject line seems to imply a problem with AMD chips, but your
:post seems to have nothing to do with AMD chips.

:So far as I know, AMD chips work fine with Linux (I have one myself
:with zero problems).  What is this other AMD?

amd == automount daemon

It allows you to set up maps so that devices are mounted on demand
and unmounted after a configurable period of inactivity.

-- 
Eric Jeschke                      |          Indiana University
[email-masked]            |     Computer Science Department

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