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| | Unix-like - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dennis Ritchie, one of the original creators of Unix, has expressed his opinion that Unix-like systems such as Linux are de facto Unix systems. | | | Meanwhile, the GNU Project was launched in 1983 with the goal of making GNU, an operating system which all computer users could freely use, study, modify, and redistribute. | | | The term can include free software / open source operating systems inspired by Bell Labs' Unix or designed to emulate its features, commercial and proprietary work-alikes, and even versions based on the licensed Unix source code (which may be deemed so "Unix-like" that they are certified to bear the "UNIX" trademark). |
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| | UNIX and UNIX variant information |
| | UNIX which is not an acronym was developed by some of the members of the Multics team at the bell labs starting in the late 1960's by many of the same people who help created the C programming language. | | | The UNIX today however is the not just the work of a couple of programmers. | | | Because the UNIX operating system is an open operating system you will discover that there are various shells. |
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| | Once the Unix kernel was coded in C, it would become possible to implement Unix on different computers without having to rewrite the majority of the code. | | | The contributions to the evolution of Unix by researchers at Bell Labs and then by those at the University of California at Berkeley, and other users and programmers around the world who continued the development of Unix, are an important achievement in the development of the process of software creation. | | | Contributing to the value of Unix during its early development, was the fact that the source code was open and available. |
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| | UNIX-like |
| | From the get-go, UNIX was designed as a multi-user, multi-tasking OS—hence its use as a server. | | | MachTen by Tenon Intersystems is a UNIX implementation for m68k and PowerPPC based Macs. | | | There is a lot of software available for UNIX operating systems, and knowing UNIX is an important computer skill. |
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| | Unix-like Definition |
| | BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), the version of UNIX developed at UCB in the 1970s and early 1980s, was widely considered to be a type of UNIX, as are its modern day descendants. | | | Moreover, developers of such systems generally feel that UNIX branding would not provide any significant advantage, as their users are generally well informed and are interested in the intrinsic values of the systems rather than in their names. | | | The functions and behavior of the UNIX clones are so similar to those of the early (and later) versions of UNIX, in fact, that many knowledgeable users consider them to be UNIX. |
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| | The Unix Operating System |
| | Unix has tried intentionally to keep the operating system extremely simple: at the simplest level which can abstract all the hardware. | | | FLEX-ES that is an IBM 370 emulator that runs on SCO Unix systems. | | | If done over a network, a mere byte of data input and a couple bytes of output also results in on the order of 50-60 bytes of data transfer with associated network load. |
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| | Apple - Mac OS X - UNIX |
| | UNIX users will feel at home in Darwin, the robust BSD environment that underlies Mac OS X. That environment is accessible at any time from the Terminal application. | | | Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation hard at work to ensure that your computing experience remains free of system crashes and compromised performance. | | | Mac OS X provides a robust set of optimized libraries, making it easy to port your existing UNIX code. |
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix
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| | A Brief History of Unix |
| | UNIX is nearly the unanimous choice of operating system for computer companies started since 1985. | | | As UNIX was ported onto more and more different types of computer hardware the UNIX networking allowed many different types of systems to share and mutually use data. | | | In UNIX because the C language was written to be used to implement an operating system rather than a traditional "input-processing-output" application, use of these sophisticated features is quite easily done from the C language without writing any assembly language. |
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http://vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/unix_history.html
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| | oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition, Second Edition |
| | UNIX in a Nutshell is the most comprehensive quickref on the market, a must for any UNIX user. | | | For all but the thorniest UNIX problems, this one reference should be all the documentation you need. | | | You may have seen UNIX quick-reference guides, but you've never seen anything like UNIX in a Nutshell. |
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| | RFC 2783 (rfc2783) - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, |
| | One convenient means to provide a PPS signal to a computer system is to connect that signal to a modem-control pin on a serial-line interface to the computer. | | | The mode in which the UNIX file descriptor was originally opened affects what operations are allowed on the PPS handle. | | | Abstract RFC 1589 describes a UNIX kernel implementation model for high- precision time-keeping. |
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| | What is UNIX? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Created by just a handful of programmers, UNIX was designed to be a small, flexible system used exclusively by programmers. | | | This meant that it could be installed on virtually any computer for which a C compiler existed. | | | Since the introduction of the Single UNIX Specification, there has been a single, open, consensus specification that defines the requirements for a conformant UNIX system. |
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| | The UNIX System -- What about all those "flavors"? |
| | Since it began to escape from ATandT's Bell Laboratories in the early 1970's, the success of the UNIX operating system has led to many different versions; Universities, research institutes, government bodies and computer companies all began using the powerful UNIX system to develop many of the technologies which today are part of the IT environment. | | | Soon all the large vendors, and many smaller ones, were marketing their own, versions of the UNIX system optimised for their own computer architectures and boasting many different strengths and features. | | | In September 1996, The Open Group announced that OS/390 had been awarded the X/Open UNIX brand, enabling IBM to identify its premier operating system to be marked UNIX 95. |
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http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/flavors_of_unix.html
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| | UNIXGEEKS.ORG |
| | For those of you who have never heard of Unix, stick around to learn about some operating systems that may change the way you interact with computers. | | | Our goal is to provide a free Unix resource to newbies, old-timers, and everything in-between. | | | Anyone who has ever operated a keyboard (and those who haven't, yet want to learn) can install and administer Linux on their home computer. |
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| | O'Reilly Network -- 20 Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable |
| | With the commercialization of Unix, the researchers at Bell Laboratories were no longer able to act as a clearing-house for the ongoing Unix research. | | | Although 32/V provided a Version 7 Unix environment on the VAX, it did not take advantage of the virtual memory capability of the VAX hardware. | | | Professors Eugene Wong and Michael Stonebraker were both stymied by the confinements of the batch environment, so their INGRES database project was among the first groups to move from the batch machines to the interactive environment provided by Unix. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/03/17/bsd.html
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| | OtherUnix |
| | UNIX® was registered by Bell Laboratories as a trademark for computer operating systems. | | | Evidently, there are various products bearing the Unix name that are completely unrelated to computer software, and their manufacturers seem to have invented the same name independently. | | | None of this has anything to do with Unix computers. |
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http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html
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| | UNIX and UNIX-like Operating Systems for PCs and Macs |
| | SCO: This is another commercial version of UNIX, one of the first on the Intel platform. | | | If you would like your PC to run the same version of UNIX that you use at SEASCF, it may be possible if you have the right hardware. | | | Linux is a UNIX lookalike operating system which is basicall SystemV-flavor because it tries to be POSIX-compliant. |
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http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~seascf/unix/pcmac.shtml
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| | Basics of the Unix Philosophy |
| | In our discussion of what Unix gets wrong, we observed that the designers of X made a basic decision to implement “mechanism, not policy”—to make X a generic graphics engine and leave decisions about user-interface style to toolkits and other levels of the system. | | | Under classic Unix, as many programs as possible are written as simple filters, which take a simple text stream on input and process it into another simple text stream on output. | | | And indeed this is happening within the Unix world, though outside it most applications shops still seem stuck with the old-school Unix strategy of coding in C (or C++). |
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| | bsdforums.org - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, Darwin, Linux, BSD Unix forums, message boards, discussions and ... |
| | BSD is a Unix descendant, an heir, a true blue-blood, tracing it's history to the original ATandT UNIX version 1. | | | The original UNIX code is nothing more than a piece of history. | | | There is no connection between Linux and Unix, other than they appear to work in a similar manner. |
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http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/printthread.php?threadid=12094
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| | PowWeb Community Forums - UNIX-like |
| | Unix is a trademark owned by Sun, however, FreeBSD, BSDI, OpenBSD, NetBSD are commonly referred to as Unix. | | | Sun and Sun varients are SystemV Unix's and FreeBSD is a BSD Unix varient. | | | Think of the word UNIX as a Tree. |
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| | "Flavors of UNIX" refers to Unix-like operating systems |
| | The widely used term flavors of UNIX refers to the many Unix-like operating systems that have been developed based on the original UNIX that was written in 1969 by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs. | | | What saved the Unix-like operating systems as a whole (but not the proprietary UNIXs) was the rapid maturation during the latter half of the 1990s of a new flavor -- Linux. | | | Fragmentation of UNIX occurred almost from the beginning. |
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| | 9 - Migrating to OpenBSD |
| | If you learned Unix from any of the good books on general Unix, understanding the "Unix philosophy" and then extended your knowledge to a particular platform, you will find OpenBSD to be a very "true" and familiar Unix. | | | If you learned Unix using a "type this to do that" process or a book such as "Learn PinkBeenie v8.3 in 31.4 Hours", and told yourself you "know Unix", you will most likely find OpenBSD very different. | | | Instead we use the Soft Updates feature of the already very robust Unix Fast File System (FFS) to accomplish the goals of performance and stability. |
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| | Wikinfo Unix-like |
| | The Open Group, which owns the UNIX trademark, considers "UNIX-like" to be a usage problem, and believes that a better alternative term would be the term "POSIX-conforming system". | | | With the rise of Linux and its strong competitive showing against certified Unix, Unix certification is becoming less relevant to the marketplace. | | | The first "Unix-like" operating systems were developed because of AT&T's licencing of Unix, which prevented the sale of Unix to commercial organisations. |
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| | mc(1): Visual shell for Unix-like systems - Linux man page |
| | To those of you who don't know what links are: creating a link to a file is a bit like copying the file, but both the source filename and the destination filename represent the same file image. | | | Find file command is for simple queries only, while using External panelize you can do as mysterious searches as you would like. | | | The virtual file system switch allows the Midnight Commander to manipulate files not located on the Unix file system. |
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| | The Creation of the UNIX Operating System: For more information |
| | On using UNIX, there are many books available at book stores and libraries, such as: | | | The Creation of the UNIX Operating System: For more information | | | On the history of UNIX in general, see: |
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| | freeware |
| | If you like one of these programs you can make a donation to support free software. | | | Cron for Windows 9x/NT/2000 is a flexible program to schedule execution of DOS commands and Windows-programs (e.g. | | | "This article will discuss using a Cron type system, as used on Unix and Linux systems, to bring the flexibility, scalability and a need for more out of a task automation tool, to the Win32 environment." |
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| | Security Forums :: View topic - The Definitive Guide to UNIX and UNIX-Like Operating Systems |
| | A propreitary UNIX solution from Silicon Graphics inc., it has been designed for SGI's range of graphics workstations and servers, and contain tools and other features which help in development of cutting edge graphics and multimedia solutions. | | | This document is written to serve as a *comprehensive repository about UNIX and related operating systems. | | | This popular UNIX version from SUN offers very good features, and runs on a variety of hardware - including x86 and SPARC architectures. |
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http://www.security-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12513
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| | Print - Windows XP to Sport Unix-like Raw Sockets |
| | Then only users with a need and hopefully an understanding of what they are adding and how to secure their machines will have it and the internet will be a safer place for the family computer to do homework on. | | | Further, the operators of these Windows PCs are much more likely to be novices, or even extreme beginners - making them far more succeptible to attacks. | | | But I do not believe this is true simply due to the fact that Windows PCs far outweigh the amount of VMS, Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX PCs in the marketplace. |
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| | Not-quite-Unix-Like OSes |
| | Runs atop Unix variants; could arguably be thought of as a "microkernelled" single server... | | | If you throw in "database servers," this is a scheme that leads in a natural way to look like "3 tier Client/Server" computer systems. | | | Filters, which may be connected in to rewrite inputs, much as with |
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| | Linux faces Unix-like fragmentation - TechUpdate - ZDNet |
| | My company was the first large software company to endorse Windows NT back in the mid 90s when we shifted off our proprietary Unix platform (known as Clix). | | | My prediction (and I'm not breaking new ground here) is that Linux will become the next version of the old AT&T/Bell Labs Unix kernels that were made public and proliferated in the 80s and 90s. | | | However, prior to that, we joined the OSF and embraced Motif (X-windows, you know) along with our Unix brethren at HP, Sun, IBM, etc. If you know your history, then you know where that went. |
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| | Hacking Linux Exposed |
| | Showing the countermeasures for each of these Unix flavors would be unweildy to say the least. | | | First, you must ask yourself which Unix-like systems would be likely topics. | | | In our book we wanted to show you both the attacks available to the malicious hacker and also the countermeasures you can implement. |
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| | freshmeat.net: Welcome to freshmeat.net |
| | About: DARE is a small Linux kernel patch to the VFS (virtual filesystem) which transparently moves files into a special directory on each filesystem instead of removing them. | | | It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS. |
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| | Unix like MS-DOS programs and material |
| | Descriptions of the files in the unix directory | | | Tiny Unix expr like integer expression evaluator, V.Iyer | | | Computes Unix compatible sum -r of input file, w/s |
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| | UNIX and UNIX-like systems |
| | http://www.busybox.net/: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. | | | Rosetta Stone for UNIX [management tool equivalents on various Unix flavors] | | | Sun Solaris Community Software Project [binary distributions of many packages] |
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| | UNIX-like software for DOS |
| | I wanted to be able to run programs like vi, GNU Emacs, LaTeX, etc. at home, so I looked around a bit. | | | Late 1996, when I got into college, I had a 486/4MB computer with DOS on it. | | | Turned out there is much useful UNIX-like software available for DOS if you look for it. |
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| | grash: a unix-like shell for your JVM |
| | The expressions in a pipeline currently evaluate one after another, but in order to behave like Unix, concurrent evaluation of the commands in a pipeline would be desired. | | | The Unix command line grew around an ecosystems of simple programs that use pipes and redirection. | | | On Unix and MacOSX you can simply use the arrow keys to navigate round your most recent commands (on Windows you will have to use CTRL-N/CTRL-P due to an issue in jline). |
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| | UnixWorld |
| | Ray Swartz answers your Unix related questions in his column | | | Matthew and Richard Stones, joint authors of Beginning Linux Programming, answer UNIX questions. | | | How to Build a SOHO Firewall on Unix-clone Systems Like Linux |
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| | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - BEGINNERS - START HERE |
| | Unix Contributors - Leading contributors involved in the creation of Unix. | | | The Unix Filesystem - Here's how it works. | | | Introduction to the UNIX Operating System - RICE University |
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| | Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions |
| | After years of Windows users abusing administrative accounts out of necessity, Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years. |
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| | Ad-hoc monitoring of UNIX and UNIX-like systems |
| | System administrators in some organizations that use a large number of UNIX systems often use a set of home-grown (or commercially available) frameworks of automated scripts to obtain information from a large number of systems and analyse these values. | | | These environments are also limited in the types of active tests that they can perform for pin-pointing problems. | | | As briefly described before, most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems maintain a large number of statistics corresponding to various events that have occurred in the operation of the system. |
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http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/general/full_papers/banga/banga_html/node20.html
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| | OpenBSD Support |
| | I consider OpenBSD to be among the most highly evolved species of UNIX (itself the best of all commercially-available Operating Systems), particularly with regard to security and reliability. | | | Here is a list of general UNIX resources. | | | Find out why - check my (somewhat dated) review in WebServer OnLine! |
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| | Unix-like Linux OS has garnered good reputation and fed fans |
| | Dan Ridge, a member of the Goddard technical staff in Greenbelt, Md., said he prefers Linux to commercial OSes like Windows NT because his organization has access to the source code. | | | NASA's Goddard Space Center uses Linux 4.2 for its Beowulf supercomputer, which was built from commodity hardware to run earth and space science applications. | | | Users can run MS-DOS emulation under Linux, and Santa Cruz Operation Inc. Unix emulation is built in. |
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http://www.gcn.com/print/16_26/32248-1.html
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| | The X11-Files - Setting up a UNIX-like environment for OS/2 |
| | So there is no reason to still use version 09c, especially if you are developing own programs. | | | TVFS allows creating virtual drives and linking directories from other drives into the virtual tree very similar to the UNIX filesystems. | | | If you don't want to do this or simply don't have enough space on one HDD, you can workaround the problem by using the Toronto Virtual File System (TVFS). |
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http://os2ports.com/ux2/ch/unix_environment_e.html
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| | www.bsd.org |
| | A large list of UNIX commands, to get the novice started | | | A concise reference of emacs commands (we're an equal opportunity website.) | | | We're compiling a list of good books about UNIX, BSD, and good programming style. |
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| | RKTOOLS - Product of Reed Kotler Systems, Inc. |
| | Now available for downloading is version 1.0 of our complete UNIX like toolset for Windows NT and Windows 95. | | | This toolset contains the popular Emacs editor, tcsh shell, UNIX text and binary utilities, vi editor, rcs source code control system, gnu make, yacc, perl,.... | | | RKTools - Unix Like Toolset for Windows NT/95/98 |
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| | LyX - Download Links |
| | LyX has been successfully ported to non-unix operating systems, like Windows and Mac OS X (which is actually Unix, but needs special care!). | | | We have a page of links to some of the required and optional support software. | | | A quick summary: download things from the "stable" directory for stability; have a look at the "devel" directory to see what next version will look like; or live on the edge, go to the Developers page and get less stable versions via Subversion. |
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| | vsftpd - Secure, fast FTP server for UNIX-like systems |
| | In this regard, vsftpd is being a small modular component in the proper spirit of UNIX. | | | vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. | | | Finally, consider moving to vsftpd even if it means sacrificing some whacky feature of your current FTP server. |
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| | OpenVMS ask the wizard - Seeking UNIX-like tools? |
| | OpenVMS does not itself directly include a mechanism to chunk files (if that is what this UNIX "split" tool does), though one could easily be written using available example code. | | | Is there any utility in openVMS 7.2 like the split in unix?. | | | we need to transfer a 5GB file to the unix box using ftp. |
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| | MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 2.7 Installing MySQL on Other Unix-Like Systems |
| | It needs to be noted by users that the binary distribution of Connector/ODBC does NOT work with the binary distribution of MySQL Server (at least on most UNIX platforms) because the former requires 'libmysqlclient.so', while the the latter ships ONLY with the static ('.a') library. | | | This is a terribly glaring flaw in product distribution strategy. | | | groupadd may differ slightly on different versions of Unix, or they may have different names such as |
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