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- Version history for FileRunner.
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- 2.5 - 1998-06-02
-
- News
-
- - Created new configuration browser, to ease browsing and editing
- the rather long list of options. Invoked with Configuration->Edit
- Configuration.
-
- - Automatically saves configuration (incl. hotlist) on
- exit. Configurable through config(save_conf_at_exit) in the
- configuration browser.
-
- - Mouse buttons used for wheel on wheelie-mice are now configurable
- through config(mwheel,neg) and config(mwheel,pos) in the
- configuration browser. These default to 4 and 5, respectively and
- corresponds nicely with the following kind of "Pointer" section in
- an Xfree 3.3.2 (or later) XF86Config file:
-
- Section "Pointer"
- Protocol "Auto"
- Device "/dev/mouse"
- # Choose button events for wheel up/down actions
- ZAxisMapping 4 5
- BaudRate 1200
- Resolution 100
- EndSection
-
- - FileRunner will now create relative links (as default) instead of
- absolute links when using the S-Link and S-LnAs
- buttons. Configurable via the config(create_relative_links)
- option. (A relative link is one that points to something of the
- form "../../foo". An absolute link looks like "/a/b/c/foo").
- Thanks to Norbert Erkeland for this code.
-
- - FileRunner now has the option of whether or not to run "pwd" after
- cd'ing to a new directory to check where it ended up. This is
- controlled by the variable config(cd_pwd) which is per default on
- (which mimics the behaviour of older FileRunner releases). If you
- set it to off, FileRunner will infer the new path from the old
- path. This makes a difference if you cd to a link that points to a
- directory. There is a similar config option config(ftp,cd_pwd) for
- the FTP case.
-
- - You can now colorize the middle command buttons in a supported
- way. Look at the config(middle_button_colors) in the configuration
- browser.
-
- - Added FTP resume background (async) download. See Utilities menu.
-
- - Added ForEach button that runs a command for each selected file.
- This command is very close to "Utilities->Run Command On Selected..."
- but instead of running one command on many files it runs one command
- per file.
-
- - Added "Etc->Recurse Command...". This runs a command recursively
- in the current directory and downwards using the Unix find utility.
-
-
- Fixes
-
- - ~/.fr/tmp is now used for temporary FTP files (primarily used when
- you "view" a file in an FTP directory). Using /tmp/USER_fr_tmp was
- a security risk, since anyone could create /tmp/USER_fr_tmp and
- put soft links in here that would get wiped when the user viewed a
- file by that name.
-
- - FileRunner no longer does a CD to the root directory when logging
- in to a remote FTP site.
-
- - Last downloaded filename through HTTP is saved for next download.
-
-
- Changes
-
- - FileRunner is now explicitly a part of the Open Source movement,
- as shown when choosing "File->About...".
-
- - "Settings" is now called "Configuration" consistently within
- FileRunner. I've done a search/replace in the User Guide but
- I'm sure it's not perfect...
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.4.2 - 1998-02-15
-
- Fixes
- - Bug: "Error in startup script: can't read "glob(gui,color_cursor)": no such
- element in array"
- - Wrong date displayed in FTP listings sometimes.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.4.1 - 1998-01-04
-
- News
- - FileRunner is now distributed under the GNU General Public License.
- Let's hope it turns up in even more places. Redhat, are you listening? :-)
- (Btw: No one ever bothered to pay $20 for a commercial license, but I have
- received a bunch of cool postcards. Keep 'em coming :-)
- - Support for "wheel"-mice. Scroll lists and text using the mouse wheel.
- Thanks to Colas Nahaboo for this. Config parameter: config(mwheel,delta)
- determines how many lines to scroll for each wheel click. Shift-wheel
- scrolls one line.
- - You can now change the color of the cursor.
-
- Fixes
- - Fixed "checkowner" function when copying/deleting files.
- - Can now parse FTP site reactor.actlab.com (yucky WinNT host :-).
- Doesn't read dates from this site correctly, but who cares...
- - Various minor stuff.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.4 - 1997-09-07
-
- News
- - Supports Tcl/Tk 8.0 only. Get it! :-)
- - Added Batch FTP download. This is useful when you want to select a
- number of files for downloading when the files are not in the same
- directory or even on the same site. You can now browse any FTP site,
- add the selected files to the batch list, then later start the batch
- download and go do something else while the files download. See the
- Etc menu.
- - HTTP downloading. This was just too easy to implement for me to be
- able to resist :-) Just choose "Etc->HTTP Download" and enter an
- URL to download. You don't have to bother with adding "http://"
- if you don't want to. Then choose a filename to save the download to.
- You can also enter an HTTP proxy in the config(http,proxy) parameter.
- (Do a "Settings->Save Settings..." followed by a "Settings->Edit
- Settings..." to see this parameter)
- - Added Help->Tips menu. This contains a few tips on usage, like how to
- color your command buttons if you want to.
- - Foreground color for selection is now configurable.
- - User-configurable button commands now get an extra argument: The mouse
- button that was used to press the button. This means you can let your
- buttons do different things if pressed with different mouse buttons.
- Unfortunately this also means you need to add a new argument to the
- command. (Values: 1:Left 2:Right 3:Middle) See chapter 7 in the User's
- Guide.
- - Added the following entry to the config(view,extensions) parameter:
- { {rpm -qilp {%s}}
- {*.rpm}
- -viewtext }
- This lets you view .rpm files. You'll have to put this in yourself
- if you already have a config file.
-
- Fixes
- - FileRunner now handles file names with any characters allowed by the
- file system. EXCEPTION: When copying directories the directory names
- (source and destination) must not contain tick-marks "'" since this
- is used as an escape character. I doubt this will be a problem in
- the real world, though.
- FileRunner used to have a real problem with file names containing ", },
- ], $ etc. You don't want to know what a headache Tcl gave me with its
- evaluation rules... AARGH!
- - "Show All Files" now also correctly shows file beginning with a dot . in the
- hyper-menu.
- - Miscellaneous fixes.
-
- Changes
- - Because of the new improved file name handling I've had to change the
- config(cmd,arc) command. This is now gone and replaced with
- config(cmd,archive). (The change was made only so I could enforce
- a new default value for this variable, which I cannot if people already
- have this variable in their .fr/config file.) The format for this command
- is now simply "archive-command {%s}" where {%s} will be substituted with
- the directory name at runtime. Do a Save Settings followed by Edit Settings
- and see the config file for more info on this.
- - The system wide config file is now called "config" and should be placed
- directly under the FileRunner installation directory.
-
- Stupid stunts
- - There are bits and pieces here and there in the code referring to WIN32...
- Well, I started to port FileRunner to Windows but I just got rather fed up
- with it after having received a prolonged exposure to Windows programming...
- It shouldn't be too hard to finish, though.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.3 - 1997-03-30
-
- New stuff
- - FileRunner will now cache reads from FTP directories. (If you go to a
- previously visited FTP directory, it will fetch it from the cache.) The
- cache (all of it) will be invalidated when you press the refresh button (the
- one with two arrows chasing each other). The number of directories
- cached is configurable via the config(ftp,cache,maxentries) parameter.
- I have a feeling this feature will come back and bite me... Tell me if
- you see something fishy. :-)
- - Shows estimated time of arrival in both relative and absolute time.
- (I discovered relative time estimate wasn't very useful when it showed
- something like 1200 minutes...:-). Estimate is now calculated over the
- average transfer speed during the last two minutes.
- - New command line argument "-iconified" will start FileRunner in iconified
- mode.
- - Config files are now saved under ~/.fr/ (which is now a directory). The
- .fr file is called .fr/config, the .fr_cmds file is called .fr/cmds and
- so on.
-
- Fixes
- - Couldn't handle files with the characters " { } in the file name. This
- fix unfortunately will have the effect of incorrectly sorting files with
- spaces in them last in the list.
- - If you run FR as root, having done "su" in a user shell, FilerRunner now
- shows the correct "user@machine" in the top status line.
- - Doesn't barf anymore if it detects a socket or a pipe in an FTP listing.
- - I got a question on how to use the "-remote openFile()" argument to netscape
- if you wanted to have a default rule for viewing .html files. The answer was
- trickier than I though because of tclsh's hairy quotation and evaluation
- rules. Anyway, here is how you do it: First, add the following to your
- config(view,extensions) variable:
-
- { {viewhtml {%s}}
- {*.html} }
-
- Then create a script called viewhtml that looks like this:
-
- #!/bin/csh -f
- netscape -remote openFile\("$argv"\)
-
- That should do it. The problem was that tclsh won't do the normal evaluation
- on lists inside ( ). That's why you have to do this work-around with the
- external script.
- - Should now correctly work with Windows based ftp deamons. Thanks to
- Colas Nahaboo for this fix.
- - Misc bugs fixed.
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.2.1 - 1997-01-18
-
- Fixes
- - The "Find file" function now behaves better. It was stupid sometimes.
- - Now handles trouble converting FTP dates gracefully. If you have the
- timezone set to GMT+xx on your computer, there seems to be a bug in
- "clock scan" that prevents it from converting date strings with GMT+xx
- in them. The result is that dates might be wrong. Work-around: Use
- another way of denoting the time zone, like MET or PST or whatever.
- - Select-all button didn't update the status line with selected/total...
- - A couple of other small bugs fixed.
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.2 - 1997-01-14
-
- Features
- - "Find file" function added both for unix files and ftp sites. (Uses the
- "site exec locate" command to search FTP sites).
- - Added chmod button and GUI requester. Should be fairly intuitive.
- - Copy with resume for FTP added. Let's you continue an FTP transfer that
- was aborted. Great when Netscape drops an FTP download for no reason...
- - History is now saved to disk between invocations of FileRunner.
- - Shell commands are now always executed in the background. A small
- "R" to the right of the command line will turn red when one or more
- commands are executing. More than one command can be executed
- simultaneously, output will be intermixed in the output window.
-
- Changes
- - FTP transfer speed measurement is now more correct.
- - New chapter on which files FileRunner uses added to the online guide. (10.2)
- - Minor smaller things mainly affecting the GUI.
-
- Bug fixes
- - Fixed: Mixes dates for ftp files (thinks some files are created 1997, when
- they were created late 1996).
- - Fixed: "Copy As" for directories: "can't read "destfile": no such variable"
- - Fixed: Error when copying FTP files that are links.
- - Fixed: Searching in the viewer or internal editor affected the selection.
-
- Notes
- - Don't run FileRunner 2.1.3 on Tcl/Tk 8.0a1. It's too buggy. Tcl/Tk that is.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.1.2 - 1996-12-08
-
- Features
- - Fully user-defined bindings for to the View, UnPack and UnArchive
- operations. Re-generate the .fr settings file and see how they work.
- Warning: your old changes to the config(cmd,unarc,xx), config(cmd,unpack,xx)
- and config(cmd,arclist,xx) variables will not be used any more. See also
- below on "New config default values".
- - You can now FTP to non-default ports. The format is
- ftp://ftp.foo.com:8080/pub/bar
- Just leave the port stuff (:8080) out if you connect to port 21
- (normal FTP).
-
- Bug fixes
- - Stupid "Can't find $USER variable" bug should be gone. FR will now look
- for the $LOGNAME variable if $USER cannot be found.
- - FR now correctly resets iconname after an aborted FTP transfer.
- - Matching on file name extensions are now case insensitive.
- - FTP file listings now a little more robust. (Couldn't handle wuarchive
- listings before).
- - Sometimes FR came up with incorrect left/right start directories.
- - Won't run the file panel updater if you're entering text in a text
- entry. (Since this will take the focus away from the entry widget
- and you don't notice you'll start typing keyboard shortcuts for
- FR commands... Bad :-)
-
- New config default values:
- - You HAVE to fix your config(view,extensions) variable to reflect the new
- settings in this variable. For example, the rule for viewing .tar.gz
- files is now in this variable. If you just want to get the default
- value for this variable into your .fr file, 1: edit the FR settings,
- 2: delete the parameter and 3: save, then 4: exit. 5: restart FR, 6:
- save settings. Now the default value for this parameter will be in your
- .fr file. If you're running FR for the first time you don't have to
- bother with this.
-
- set config(view,extensions) {
- { {xmikmod {%s}}
- {*.mod.gz *.s3m *.mtm *.stm *.xm *.uni *.mod} }
- { {timidity {%s}}
- {*.midi.gz *.midi *.mid.gz *.mid} }
- { {xv -gamma 2.0 {%s}}
- { *.bmp *.iff *.jpg *.pbm *.pgm *.png *.ppm *.tga
- *.tif *.tiff *.xbm *.xpm *.gif} }
- { {gzip -dc {%s} | ghostview -}
- { *.ps.gz } }
- { {ghostview {%s}}
- { *.ps } }
- { {xanim {%s}}
- {*.avi *.fli *.flc *.mpg} }
- { {gzip -cd {%s} | tar tvf -}
- { *.tgz *.taz *.tar.z *.tar.gz }
- -viewtext }
- { {tar tvf {%s}}
- {*.tar}
- -viewtext }
- { {unzip -lv {%s}}
- {*.zip}
- -viewtext }
- { {lha -v {%s}}
- {*.lha}
- -viewtext }
- { {gzip -cd {%s}}
- {*.gz}
- -viewtext }
- }
-
- - The new parameter for unarchiving stuff.
-
- set config(cmd,unarc,extensions) {
- { {gzip -cd {%s} | tar xfBp -}
- {*.tgz *.taz *.tar.z *.tar.gz} }
- { {tar xfBp {%s}}
- {*.tar} }
- { {unzip -oqq {%s}}
- {*.zip} }
- { {lha -x {%s}}
- {*.lha} }
- }
-
- - The new parameter for unpacking stuff.
-
- set config(cmd,unpack,extensions) {
- { {gzip -d {%s}}
- {*.gz} }
- }
-
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.1.1 - 1996-11-03
-
- Small features/other
- - Changed to use Tcl/Tk 7.6/4.2. You can still run on 7.5/4.1 but
- you'll have to edit the scripts.
- - Sort on reverse time added.
- - New platform support: AIX.
- - Support for system wide .fr file. (Sourced before the user's .fr file).
- - FTP sorting on time now implemented.
- - FTP: Selecting "show all files" now works.
-
- Bug fixes
- - Editing shell command color works.
- - Usage of "tar" internally now doesn't use the -B flag (for HPUX).
- - Using Tcl/Tk 7.6/4.2 seems to have fixed the infamous "grab failed" problem.
- - Misc fixes.
-
- Documentation
- - Added a FAQ file with know bugs and common Q's and A's.
-
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.1 - 1996-10-27
-
- Features
- - You can now copy both to and from an FTP site.
- - Recursive copying of directories both to and from an FTP site.
- - Makedir, Delete and Rename works in FTP. Recursive delete of FTP
- directories implemented too.
- - Rule based configuration of FTP site logins. For example always
- login with username X and password Y to sites matching *.Z.com using
- proxy P etc. See more in the online guide, chapter 8.8.
- - Icon name now shows estimated time of arrival (ETA) for FTP transfers.
- - Select All/Select None toggle button added to the lower right
- ofthe file list panes. This is the button with letter S on it.
- - If you enter a directory that doesn't exist you get the choice
- of editing the faulty directory or create it. This is a convenient
- way of creating new directories.
- - The middle mouse button in the file list now work the same way
- as mouse button 1 + ctrl. It doesn't deselect anything but just
- toggles the previous selection. Try it. See chapter 3.3.4.1
- for a list of available mouse operations.
-
- Smaller features/changes
- - When a new directory is created, all it's parent directories are created
- also if they don't already exist.
- - The escape button now works to exit the text viewer and editor.
- - The Page up/down, Home/End keys work in the text viewer and editor without
- first clicking in it.
- - Default colors are changed to a cool metallic green. Just change it if you
- don't like it...
- - The Abort button is called Stop now.
-
- Documentation
- - Reworked chapter 8 about FTP.
- - Reworked chapter 3.3.4.1 about mouse buttons in the file list. Here you
- can now find a list of mouse operations available.
- - Misc. changes.
-
- Bug fixes
- - User defined bindings from file extensions to action (e.g. .jpg ->
- launch image viewer) are now searched before the built-in bindings.
- - FTP now correctly handles filenames with spaces in them,
- - Hopefully the infamous "grab failed: application already has grab"
- will be a little less frequent. There is still a bug inside the Tk
- menu code that can trigger this bug.
- - Move on FTP file crashed FR. (It can't move FTP files yet, but it
- shouldn't crash...)
- - The recursive directory menu now correctly handles filenames with
- spaces in them.
- - More misc. bug fixes.
-
- There are new default values for the some parameters. If you already
- have a .fr file, you can see below what the new defauls are:
- set config(gui,color_select) "#f1a9ec43aa9d"
- set config(gui,color_scheme) "#d1f0dfbebd10"
- set config(view,extensions) {
- { {xmikmod {%s}} { *.mod.gz *.s3m *.mtm *.stm *.xm *.uni *.mod } }
- { {timidity {%s}} { *.midi.gz *.midi *.mid.gz *.mid } }
- { {xv -8 {%s}} { *.bmp *.iff *.jpg *.pbm *.pgm *.png *.ppm
- *.tga *.tif *.tiff *.xbm *.xpm *.gif } }
- { {gzip -dc {%s} | ghostview - } { *.ps.gz } }
- { {ghostview {%s}} { *.ps } }
- }
- set config(cmd,touch) "touch"
- set config(cmd,du) "du -s"
-
- Known bugs
- - There is still a problem with the grab failed thing that can pop up here
- and there. It seems to be a problem in the Tk menu implementation.
- Anyone have any ideas how to get around this?
-
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2.0 - 1996-09-24
-
- Features:
- - Added shell windows. Activated by the button to the right of the up-dir
- button at the top of the file list panes. This pops up a small built-in
- shell that lets you run commands inside FileRunner. Like a simple xterm/
- shell session. The "current directory" of the left and right shell is
- always synchronized with the "current directory" of the respective file
- list panels. See the online guide for more on this.
- - Asynchronous file operations added. Instead of pressing the left mouse
- button over the command buttons (like copy, delete etc...) you press the
- right mouse button over the buttons and the command is executed
- asynchronously (in the background).
- For some buttons, this is not implemented (where the operation is very fast
- anyway, like doing soft links). This IS implemented for FTP,
- which means you can mark 25 files and press the right mouse button
- over the Copy button and have 25 parallell copyings going to the same
- server... Be careful with this!
- The drawback with asynchronous operations is that it won't tell you
- if things go wrong during a copy, etc (for some operations, though
- it will print this to the standard error output for FileRunner).
- It will also increase the risk that the file panels aren't showing
- correct information (you'll have to use the Update button). For
- ftp transfers, it will usually take longer since it has to start
- another ftp session for every file it copies (in parallell).
- - New config opttion [config(view,extensions)] that holds general rules for
- which viewer to invoke on which file. For example *.jpg launches the
- image viewer and *.avi launches the movie viewer. This is now fully
- user-configurable.
- - Abort button added. This tries to abort the current command. For normal
- file access commands (copy, move etc) it can only abort between two
- files, not in the middle of operating on a file (in the middle of copying
- a file). For FTP, you can abort in the middle of a transfer. The FTP
- link will be closed when you do this, but reopened the next time you
- access an FTP file.
- - In conjunction with the abort button, added the clone button. Only these
- two buttons may be pressed during execution of a command, like a long
- FTP transfer, for example. The clone operation is gone from the File menu.
- - Added back button (arrow left). Works just as the back button in
- Netscape.
- - Added "Settings->Edit xxx color". Changes GUI colors on the fly.
- - Added "Settings->Edit xxx font". Changes GUI fonts on the fly.
- - New interface for User-defined buttons. See online guide.
-
- Small features:
- - Selection in file list panes now produce list of files when exported
- to other apps (or inside FileRunner).
- - Close button added to text viewer and text editor. (The little cross)
- - "normal" Save option added to text editor menu. Don't use "save",
- then "quit" when editing config settings, use "save&quit"
- instead... (Or the config won't be read back in)
- - File list panes now show selected / total entries.
- - Added geometry config options that let's you set the size and position
- (in normal X11 syntax) for the main window, the text viewer window and
- the Quick-editor window, respectively.
- [config(geometry,main), config(geometry,textviewer),
- config(geometry,qedit)]
- - Added "Settings->Set left start dir", "Setttings->Set right start dir"
- that saves your position in the file list panels for next time
- you start. Quicker than editing the settings file by hand. You have
- to save your settings to store it to the .fr file.
- - Added "Settings->Set window pos/size". Sets the config variable for
- the main window geometry [config(geometry,main)]. You have to save
- your settings to store it to the .fr file.
- - Added command "Utilities->Check Size of selected..." that counts the
- size of selected files and directories and shows the result
- in kilobytes. Note that this uses the du -s command and you might
- have to add the -k flag here to get the answer in kilobytes on some
- platforms (like Solaris 2.x). Do that in the Settings->Edit Settings
- command [config(cmd,du)].
- - Added "Utilities->Swap Windows" that swaps the left and right directories
- shown.
- - Added a "little" keyboard support. If you set the config variable
- config(keyb_support) to 1, FileRunner activates keyboard support.
- Currently this is not very extensive. See online guide for more
- info on this.
- Config variable config(keyb_listb_support) has changed name to
- config(keyb_support) and changed semantics to mean general
- keyboard support on/off.
- - If you press the right mouse button in the directory entry, a requester
- pops up asking you to type a new path. This is sometimes faster than
- going to the directory entry and then clearing it, and then entering
- the new directory.
- - Changed the Update button to an iconized button. Due to lack of
- space. Sorry for this, it makes it harder to understand...
-
- Bugfixes:
- - Commands will now tell you if there are stuff they cannot do, like
- doing a soft link from an FTP file. (Instead of just doing nothing)
- - Window is repainted correctly during long FTP transfers. This also makes
- the window react to the quit-window (delete) command sent to it from the
- window manager during transfers.
- - Bugfix: When history got longer than xx entries, it got truncated
- to 0... Now only the oldest entries are deleted (as it should be)
- - Exiting FTP connections is now faster/more reliable.
- - FTP client now changes server socket for data connections on every command.
- Sometimes FTP servers had problems with using the same server socket
- every time, giving error codes 425 and 500 (?).
- - Bugfix: When deleting a directory displayed by FileRunner, it would
- crash. (Stupid bug, since it was designed to handle this...)
- - Bugfix: Sometimes FR would fail with "grab failed: another application
- has grab" It looks like the grab fails for a reason I cannot determine.
- It shouldn't fail. A workaround for this is that you now get a warning if
- a grab fails. If you don't do anything stupid (like trying to start another
- command before the first one is finished) you should be OK. Anyone got an
- idea why this happens and how to handle it better?
-
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1.2 - 1996-08-24
- - Default "unzip {%s}" command changed to "unzip -oqq {%s}"
- You have to change this in your .fr file if you already have a .fr file.
- - No more crashes when FileRunner tries to stat a file that disappeared
- between getting the directory list and the actual stat'ing.
- - Viewing .gz files now works. (Just right-click on any gzipped text file)
- - RunCmd and C-Select button moved to Utilities menu.
- - S-LnAs (Soft-Link As..) command button added.
- - Copying links: Copying a link to a file will copy the file, not the
- link. Copying a link to a directory will copy the directory, not the
- link. This is new behaviour.
- - Fixed Makefile.cc and ext.c so it will compile on Unixware and IRIX
- - Color for selection in listbox now configurable.
- [config(gui,color_select)]
- - Fixed: Choosing a list of files, then pressing Edit or View(Image).
- (This is supposed to pass the whole list of files to the editor/image
- viewer)
- - Added mod and midi extensions and mod and midi player commands.
- [config(cmd,play,sound,mod) and config(cmd,play,sound,midi)]
- - Added config option to allow listboxes to take focus when clicked. Gives
- some more control over keyboard access to the file list. Default off.
- [config(keyb_listb_support)]
- - Added config options to decide whether you want FileRunner to ask "Are
- you sure?" when deleting directories or files, respectively.
- [config(ask,dir_delete) and config(ask,file_delete)]
- - FTP transfers now show total average speed at the end of the transfer.
-
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1.1 - First public release 1996-08-11
-
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- 1.0 - Internal release
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