Ultrasound Daily Digest     Wed Jun 16 00:37     Volume 4: Issue  16  

Today's Topics:
            Another bug with Recording Session?  Not sure.
                     Another in a long series...
                             CDROM drives
                              Flashback
                 Gravis Stock... Whats going on guys?
                       Installing 2.06 update 
                       MOD player for Windows?
             New Gravis Disks - Question on Rec. Session
                      Problems with 2.06 release
                     Recording Studio bugs (more)
                             Some Answers
                            Stunt Island?
          The Gravis Ultra Sound sound board! (fwd) (2 msgs)
                        The Power Chords Blues
                  ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST V (2 msgs)
               Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #15  (2 msgs)
                              X-Wing...

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 10:52:34 -0500 (EST)
From: sjm@se01.elk.miles.com (Scott Mark)
Subject: Another bug with Recording Session?  Not sure.
Message-ID: <9306151552.AA16060@se01.elk.miles.com>

I'm not sure what the MIDI standards are, so I could be wrong on this one.
If so, I'm sure that someone will point it out to me just as delicately as
those who have expressed their views about Recording Studio... 

I was trying to figure a way around the 1/32th note problem I'd seen in
Chinese.mid, and I thought that I could change the time signature.

No dice (but no bug, yet).  You can set the number of beats per measure,
but a quarter note gets one count, forever and ever amen.

Now, when I was in band, "quarter note gets one count" meant that each quarter
note got one beat on tempo, no matter how many beats there are in a measure.

But when I set the time base to be 2/4 (two beats per measure, quarter note
gets one count, the song played twice as fast!

My understanding was always that it doesn't matter how many beats there are
in a measure- the speed of the song goes the same unless you either change


the tempo or change the number of beats that a quarter note gets.

Or did I learn it all wrong or forget it since then?  Doesn't the bottom
number mean how many beats a quarter note gets?

Am I crazy?  Can someone tell me what's wrong with my thinking?

Scott
Scott Mark		(219) 262-7452		8:00 - 4:30 EST
sjm@se01.elk.miles.com

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 11:18:34 -0400
From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Another in a long series...
Message-ID: <9306151518.AA15068@magick.tay2.dec.com>

...I got my upgrade disks here in bucolic Stow, MA on Monday...I like the
little note from Gravis included with the disks.

DDA

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 20:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pete Kilcullen <pmk@access.digex.net>
Subject: CDROM drives
Message-ID: <199306160047.AA15929@access.digex.net>

OK! I'm ready to buy a CDROM internal drive. I think the GUS has a SCSI
interface to hook up the drive. What do I need to know or do??? 

Pete

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 09:26:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Philip Andrew Nemec <blackdiamond+@cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Flashback
Message-ID: <0g7QryO00iUzE1bWN9@andrew.cmu.edu>

Yeah - the game IS great...  Too bad I didn't learn quite all that
useful vocabulary in MY French classes...

Anyway - I pretty much beat through the music as fast as possible since
it doesn't sound so hot, and at least on the opening has lots of
crackling.  In the actual game I just have music turned off (stick with
the nice samples).  That works okay - the samples seem to do fine.

Getting the music sounding right would be nice tho!  :)

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 09:52:27 -0500 (EDT)
From: Mike Ellis <mikee@seas.gwu.edu>
Subject: Gravis Stock... Whats going on guys?
Message-ID: <9306151352.AA12521@sparko.gwu.edu>

Hey Folks, whats up?

Was wondering Gravis Stock has been trading like MAD! over the last couple
of days. The prices didn't change much, but the volume traded increased by 
like 300%.

Gravis? Whats going on? In the US. we dont get that much info. Care to
let us know whats up?

Thanx,
	MikeE 

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 11:16:55 -0400
From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Installing 2.06 update 
Message-ID: <9306151516.AA15057@magick.tay2.dec.com>

> My problem (probably) stemmed from the fact that I run Norton's cache program,
> and my solution was to wait about 70 seconds between disks to give my cache
> time to flush.  It worked like a champ.

Yup. This sounds very much like the drive change hardware on your floppy
either isn't working correctly or is confusing NCACHE. You can test this by
putting a floopy in the drive, doing a director, changing the floppy and do
another directory. If you get the old directory, the drive-change hardware
ain't working (or is being ignored by the cache). If you can disable the
cache, run the test again. If it's the cache, bitch to Norton. :-) If not,
you can use the DRIVEPARAM (I think) command in config.sys to "fix" the
problem...

DDA

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 10:25:49 -0500
From: John Dillenburg <dillenbu@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
Subject: MOD player for Windows?
Message-ID: <199306151525.AA05124@bert.eecs.uic.edu>

  Does anyone know of a MOD player for the GUS that works in
Windows?  I've tried Win Pro MOD, but it doesn't seem to
work.

John



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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 08:10:49 EDT
From: warrenl@graphics.rent.com (Warren Lieuallen)
Subject: New Gravis Disks - Question on Rec. Session
Message-ID: <qoV55B1w165w@graphics.rent.com>

   I just got my update disks this Friday, and was surprised to find
them actually worth it!  I've always tried to keep up to date by
grabbing the latest set of patches, SBOS, etc., but this new set of
disks really puts everything together smoothly, and the automatic
installation was really slick (it even makes all the Windows stuff
a "no-brainer"!).
  
   Now I've got a question, though.  My son is trying to enter some
sheet music into Recording Session, and we can't find a way to "slur"
two notes together (to connect them so that the pitch changes, but
the notes are not played as two separate notes).  Can this be done?
We've managed to tie to notes together (as long as they are the same
pitch), but haven't found the much-touted on-line help to be very
helpful.  It explains what things are, but not how to do them.

  ======================The Graphics BBS @ (908)469-0049=====================
  Dr. Warren G. Lieuallen    R.W.Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute
  InterNet: warrenl@graphics.rent.com
  ===="Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein ====

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 08:28:44 EDT
From: cg-atla!yfandes!pasky@ima.ima.isc.com (Bob Pasky)
Subject: Problems with 2.06 release
Message-ID: <9306151228.AA18990@yfandes.agfa.com     >

Finally got my 2.06 release in the mail Monday, Jun 14.
I installed it "over top of" [sic] the previous release (2.05?
from the "epas" archive) and everything completed without a hitch.

Here are some problems I ran into -- starting with the first
thing I tried (not a good sign!):

1) Running GMODDEMO.BAT the first time tells you to run
   the SETUP.EXE in the MOD directory. I cd'ed there and
   ran SETUP. All the numbers looked good so I just saved
   the configuration (F1) and (Q)uit. Ran GMODDEMO (from
   C:\ULTRASND) and it still complains. Looked at the .BAT
   file to discover it's looking for a MOD\GUSMOD.CFG.
   Guess what? There's no GUSMOD.CFG. Running MOD\SETUP.EXE
   several times, "pushing" all the buttons, never produced
   a .CFG file.

   My solution: Since I've been running GUSMOD 2.11 for a
   while now with no problems, I just hacked up the


   GMODDEMO.BAT file to ignore the missing .CFG file error.
   Of course, it works even without a .CFG file (I just
   remembered I have an enviornment variable for GUSMOD since
   I first installed it, but I don't think it's pointing to
   a strange place! In any case, the non-production of a 
   .CFG file from SETUP still applies.)

2) PLAYMIDI still doesn't work. This has been true since the
   last version which added the graphic display. The display
   comes up, but the song either plays very slowly or hangs
   playing one note forever or, more often, doesn't start at
   all. Usually, running PLAYMIDI with the -video (no graphics)
   option works, though I've found one or two .MID files,
   probably with large single tracks, which hang it as well.
   (These same .MID files work fine under Windows Windjammer,
   MediaPlayer, etc.) However none of them, including your
   demo files work with the graphics display enabled.

3) SBOS fails to load. I get an "Interrupt Time out" from
   LOADSBOS (displays: GF1 SBOS V2.08, etc.) and then the
   following message:

     Error on load of patch library(C:\ULTRASND\SBOS\sboslib.sbs)

   I looked at the dates of SBOSLIB.SBS and it is the latest one
   (May '93). I tried loading SBOSDRV several ways and always
   LOADSBOS fails the same way.

Note that I've been using my GUS almost daily using GUSMOD and
such under DOS and Windjammer, Cakewalk Demo, MediaPlayer, etc.
under Windows 3.1 practically without a hitch since I got it
last November -- so it basically works. I don't use SBOS much,
but it was working at one time. Even the latest versions, which
some other people on this list had trouble with, worked for me.

My setup: GUS at 220,1,1,11,7 (or whatever the defaults are)
	with 768K RAM installed.
	Gateway 2000 486-DX/33, MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1,
	running 386MAX and Stacker.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 10:37:42 -0500 (EST)
From: sjm@se01.elk.miles.com (Scott Mark)
Subject: Recording Studio bugs (more)
Message-ID: <9306151537.AA15848@se01.elk.miles.com>

adhir@anywhere.umd.edu (Al Dhir) wrote:
> Subject: [GUS] Recording Studio bugs (_annoying_)
> Message-ID: <1vgu39$lh4@umd5.umd.edu>
> 
	[Problems about tracks (or is it channels??) dropping out
	 in MIDISoft Recording Studio and problems with saving


	 edited MIDI files.]

I think I've found some other problems.

First let me say that I _really_ like being able to work with a regular
score, because I think that it may help me to start finally trying my
own music, original or just pieces that I copy into the program.

The two problems I've found are that:
	1: notes in the score don't match what is played.
	2: the MIDI List View window has bad column headings.  I think.

1.	Load CHINESE.MID (wups!  they seem to have removed it from the new
	disks, which is too bad.  OK, load anything that has lots of
	quick notes.) and look at the piccolo track (track 3).

	Look at measure 11: quarter note, two eighths, four sixteenths, and
	two more eighths.  Balances out to four beats.  You'll notice that
	the four sixteenths are "chords" -- two notes playing at the same
	time like on a piano, or on two piccolos.

	_Play_ measure 11, with the speed turned way down.  Those sixteenths
	do not get played as such.  They get played as a run of 32'nd notes.

	Does MIDIsoft only handle notes that are at least a sixteenth?


	I clicked on "triplets" and entered three.  They got tied together,
	but no curve with the little 3 on it, as shown on the icon.


2.	I brought up the MIDI List View window to try and figure out what is
	going, but for some reason the MIDI List doesn't move as the song plays,
	the way that the score does (which is a nice feature, BTW).

	And I get column headings that look like this:

	..		..		Pitch	Vel On 	Vel Off
					65	A6	128

	So I figure that at _least_ Pitch and Velocity On are switched, but
	I don't know enough to guess which others.




I want to close by thanking Gravis and MidiSoft and Howling Dog for bringing
these two programs to us.  I agree that there are some shortcomings but for
free software this is terrific.  I think that Power Chords looks like it's
going to take a while to get the hang of but might make music generation a
whole lot faster than entering each note and copying it over and over, etc.
Can't wait until El-Fish can support real MIDI on the Gravis-- the
SoundBlaster MIDI doesn't come out too well.



Scott
Scott Mark		(219) 262-7452		8:00 - 4:30 EST
sjm@se01.elk.miles.com

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 9:29:01 PDT
From: godfrel@sfu.ca
Subject: Some Answers
Message-ID: <9306151629.AA25928@fraser.sfu.ca>

Ok, to the person who couldn't get music for Eco quest:

Try using the Get from MIDI file option in the Patch manager to load in
the patches from the 1024k.mid (That's not the right filename but you get
the picture)  I think it's located in the \ultrasound\midi directory.  You
can also use media player to load up the patches too.

To the person who couldn't get his installation disks to work:
 
Make sure none of the disks have volume labels.
 
Godfrey.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 08:31:46 -0500
From: John Dillenburg <dillenbu@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
Subject: Stunt Island?
Message-ID: <199306151331.AA02890@bert.eecs.uic.edu>

  I can't get GUS to work with stunt island.  The FAQ says there
shouldn't be any problem, but my computer always locks up during
the introductory sequence of the game.  I've tried SBOS 1.20 and
2.08.  My GUS has 256K and my computer is a Gateway 486DX2/66.
Please advise.

John

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 09:07:52 +0501 (EDT)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: The Gravis Ultra Sound sound board! (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9306150952.A13106-a100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

Hey fellow GUSers I have gotten some responses to my write in campaign to
the various software houses and gotten some exciting responses  and
thought I would pass them along.

By the way if you would help me with my campaign I would be very
appreciative.  Just use the posted compuserve address and end them a


letter telling them they should have GUS support and why.  The more people
who write in the quicker they will get full GUS support (or thats the plan
any way).

Gunnar Swanson


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 14 Jun 93 09:18:41 EDT
From: "Sir-tech Software, Inc." <76711.33@CompuServe.COM>
To: gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: The Gravis Ultra Sound sound board!

Gunnar -

	We've just begun working with Gravis to fully support the board
and you can loo9k forward to such support with our upcoming products.

							Brenda

 end.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 09:12:44 +0501 (EDT)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: The Gravis Ultra Sound sound board! (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9306150944.A13106-9100000@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

Here is some more of what I have heard from my write in campaign!

Gunnar Swanson
gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 14 Jun 93 16:13:12 EDT
From: SSI/Phil <76711.250@CompuServe.COM>
To: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: The Gravis Ultra Sound sound board!

Gunnar,
	SSI is looking into supporting the GUS and hopes to do so with its 
new products.
Phil



end.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 18:36:50 EDT
From: jeffreytm@aol.com
Subject: The Power Chords Blues
Message-ID: <9306151836.tn42897@aol.com>

Finally, the great white Gravis box arrives in the center of the known
universe, Muncie Indiana!
     I installed the disks and instantly I had a couple of new icons that
knew how to use the GUS.  I played with Power Chords and Recording Session
for a while and went to bed dreaming of all the
wonderful music I was going to create the next day.
     I took the skimpy manual to work and gave it good looking over.
Then I went home and started to compose.  Decompose actually.  It
took some time but I finally realized that Power Chord allows you
only 1 melody, 1 bass, 1 Chord Rhythm, and a drum track for each
measure.  If you count the drums as one instrument, you soon discover you can
have only 4 instruments going on at one time.
That is what I always wanted.  A 16-bit Mod Composer!
     I gave Howling Dog the benefit of the doubt.  What do you expect
for free anyway?  I called Howling Dog to place that $20 dollar order
for the real Power Chords 1.1.  Being a curious customer I asked,
"How many melodies can I have in one bar?".  "Just one" was the
reply.  I then informed that Power Chords 1.1 allows me to make
my own custom instrument with up to 12 strings and 24 frets.  I always wanted
to play a martian simitar doesn't everybody.  The Pro
version for $75 that allows 16 melodies (real midi) is not ready yet!
Does this sound familiar to anyone with a GUS.
     Does anybody know what you can do with the little guitar you
can play with your mouse?  I can strum it, pick it, and bend notes
with it.  Is it just a chord tester or can you actually use it in the
wonderful 4 instrument songs you make with Power Chords.
                                  -Jeff Meyer-
     (just one man, one computer and a shidi sequencer)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 18:58:25 
From: john.smith@gravis.com
Subject: ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST V
Message-ID: <9306141858.A2264wk@gravis.com>

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 14:46:34 PDT
From: godfrel@sfu.ca
Subject: John Smith needs spelling lessons :)
Message-ID: <9306132146.AA09002@fraser.sfu.ca>

Jurassic Park
Pausing not poseing or possing
in the sbos.cfg you've got SEIRRA, i before e except after c.  It should
be SIERRA.



and in the last bulletin you posted about the midi connector box you've
got through spelled wrong.

Godfrey.

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Guess I should type slower <grin>  I do run the important stuff
through a spelling and grammar checker but the smaller stuff I usually
let slide.  Thanx for pointing out the SIERRA thing.  I've fixed it on
my end.

John
---
 ~ QMPro 1.02 05-8925 ~ CCITT- Can't Conceive Intelligent Thoughts Today

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 18:59:05 
From: john.smith@gravis.com
Subject: ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST V
Message-ID: <9306141859.A2304wk@gravis.com>

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>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 09:07:31 -0230 (NDT)
>From: Ed Reddy <ereddy@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
>Subject: Hey Advanced GRAVIS, What about US CANADIANS!!!
>Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9306120931.B3690-9100000@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>

>I have yet to see any owners where I live receive their new GUS disk,
>while Joe Blow in Siberia received his 2 weeks ago.

>It's nice to know who Gravis is serving. Great to see them playing
>Diplomatic pleasing. Do everything to please foreign customers, while
>your local and fellow Canadians can wait... NOT!

>Get off your butt Gravis and mail us those disks!

>Any other Canadians feel the same way?

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ALL the disks were mailed out way back when over a one week period.  All
the North America stuff went through the Bellingham and the
International stuff through Holland.  Guess it is just taking Canada
post a little longer to mail the stuff than the european post office.
But it DID all get mailed out.

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>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 13:51:50 EDT


>From: thduda@mosaic.uncc.edu (Tony H Duda)
>Subject: Prince of Persia 2 with the new Sbos
>Message-ID: <9306121751.AA02838@mosaic.uncc.edu>
>
>It seems that the game hangs up after 3 minutes, maybe little bit
>longer after few digital sounds play.  I am using the new sbos download
>from EPAS, gus0032.zipAny body Any Ideas?  Help!

 -----------------------------

Try getting rid of your EMM386.

John
---
 ~ QMPro 1.02 05-8925 ~ Time flies like wind.  Fruit flies like pears.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 07:40:52 -0300 (ADT)
From: Shadow Of Fear <markus@Info.UMoncton.ca>
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #15
Message-ID: <Pine.3.02.9306150751.A9616-a100000@clement>

[ About SBOS and Flashback ... ]

	I also have Flashback and that game is incredibly addictive!!!
You are right, though.  The music is awful.  Totally out of tune.  But
there's only music for the intro, some animation screens and when you
give, receive or get an object.  Most of the game deals with sound effects
and the effects are awesome!!  My sound system is cranked at max for this
game.  I love the sound of my gun and those globe-robots that shoot when
you trigger them.
	Smooth animation with no slow down at all and I have a 286.  

                            Marc Y. Paulin
     /-----------------------------------------------------------------\
     |  Fidonet: 1:255/32.0   Internet: markus@info.umoncton.ca        |
     |           1:255/33.0       Talk: markus@clemen.info.umoncton.ca |
     \--------------+------------------------------+-------------------/
                    | Gravis Ultrasound forever!!! |
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 11:40:23 -0400
From: adhir@anywhere.umd.edu
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #15 
Message-ID: <9306151540.AA05168@anywhere.umd.edu>

>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 11:07:29 +0000
>From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
>Subject: missing notes in Recording Session
>Message-ID: <0096E02C.8F90C16B.9994@lsl.co.uk>


>
>When playing 5thsymp.mid (or whatever it is called) using Midisoft
>Recording Session (supplied with new GUS disks), I noticed that some
>notes were being missed out, while WinJammer or Media Player would
>play all the notes.
>
>Has anyone else noticed this?

Yes I have.  Looks like a pretty major bug has creeped into the
release of their program.  Makes it all but useless for me (sad,
because I really like it).  Hopefully they'll release a bug fix soon.


BTW - read my post in the last digest, I mention the same problem.

Al

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 14:47:29 BST
From: MoonCat <T.D.Witten@lut.ac.uk>
Subject: X-Wing...
Message-ID: <9306151347.AA08364@hpl.lut.ac.uk>

I've just installed X-Wing + the new Gravis update disks. SBOS 2.08 seems to 
work ok - the adlib music plays and you can even occasionally hear samples. It 
does slow the game down a lot (running on a 386,33) but if you turn the 
in-flight music off things are ok - and the digital sound works fine. However, 
you can still hear the occasional parts of the music, at a low volume - 
despite the fact that it should have been switched off. And now when there is 
an explosion, I hear a couple of music chords as well as the sample. Has 
anyone else had this problem? Am using Dos 5, 4mb Ram configured to 1Mb XMS, 
Stacker, SBOS 2.08/2.09b and the ultrasound is configured to DMA channel 1.

Reply to T.D.Witten@lut.ac.uk if anyone can help at all.

Cheers,

Trevor.

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