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<title>RCML - Status</title>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="39">
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<tr>
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<td><a class="logo" href="http://RCML">RCML</a> <span class="logodot">.</span>
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<span class="logohead"><a href="http://rcml/product.htm">the product</a></span> <span class="logodot">.</span>
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<span class="logohead">Status</span></td>
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<h1> </h1>
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<span class="section">Status Ending: 2 July 99</span>
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<blockquote>
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<font SIZE="2">
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<blockquote>
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<p>Start to implement the new extended schema, and integrate the generator
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into the DLL - Work is going well here, but we'll not integrate into the DLL
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for M0.</p>
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<p>Work on M0 deliverables : clipping text, and resizable property sheets
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(re-architecture required) - on track for M0.</p>
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<p>Work on Slide deck for first 'big' review - first pass on review done,
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we'll need an hour, so review moved, date TBD.</p>
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<p>Start to convert the RCML schema to use the "XML Schema
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schema". A more formal schema definition, big customer win.</p>
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</font>
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<hr>
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<span class="section">Status Ending: 25 June 99</span>
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<p>Big news is that the Exchange Server (Peter Beinhardt) team loved RCML, and
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they said they'd sign up to be a customer. They asked hard questions, and we
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had the answers. They'll even supply a dev to help with the migration!</p>
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<p>New schema implementation in design stages..</p>
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<p>Met with CWD (consumer windows division) to extol the virtues of using GML.
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Good meeting, they seemed more interested in the features of RCML than GML.
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JeffBog was in attendance, and said Neptune would probably have something
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different to RCML.</p>
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<p>Substitutable text is in (entity replacement). Has partial blessing from
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the XML team, but they're OK given our customer set.</p>
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<p>Work on Slide deck for first 'big' review is progressing.</p>
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<p>Started work on converting the RCML schema doc to use the XML schema schema
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with XSL for rendering - takes a while.</p>
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<p>Did some memory investigation work, nothing looked TOO scary, we're cost
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the application about 80K or so.</p>
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<p>Focussing on M0 (July 8th) deliverables.</p>
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<span class="section">Status Ending: 18 June 99</span>
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</p>
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<b><font SIZE="2">
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<p>Last Week:</p>
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<p>Produced concrete dates for code deliverables, M0 July 8th. http://rcml/scheduleupdate.htm</p>
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<p>Improved the clipping text (single and multi line) with support for bigger,
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smaller font sizes for MSAA.</p>
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<p>Complete removal of CString with LPCTSTR done and MSVCRT linkage.</p>
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<p>Perf numbers, we continue to clear out the low hanging fruit before we
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publish numbers.</p>
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<p>Last GML and Text+ meetings were a success, these two teams will own the
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localizable strings in RCML.</p>
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<p>Had our first pure C customer use our stuff (JulieB), produced good feedback
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which we are rolling into our generator and SDK.</p>
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<p>
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<span class="section">Status Ending: 11 June 99</span>
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</p>
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<p>Meetings:
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<ul>
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<li><font SIZE="2">Met with Text+ and designers about layout systems.
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Some interesting things that we have to make sure to consider: Tibetan
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has big requirements in height (twice as many pixels vertically than we
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currently use). Other problems might occur if we put multiple
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languages in one control (especially Edit)</font></li>
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</ul>
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<p><font size="2">Development:</font></p>
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<li><font SIZE="2">Removal of CString with LPCTSTR - 90% done.</li>
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<li>There were some improvements on the Perf Numbers.</li>
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<li>Removed VT_VARIANT property bag to a leaner key/value pair bag - may be
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used by Text+</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Process</p>
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<li><font size="2">Will implement the attribute schema (What attributes
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correspond to what style bits)</font></li>
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<li><font size="2">Start supporting GML spec</font></li>
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<li><font size="2">Get concrete date for deliverables</font></li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p><span class="section">Status Ending: 4 June 99</span>
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<p>Meetings:
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<ul>
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<li>Met with Text+ guys to discuss DrawFormattedText. They need to talk
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with controls to figure out details</li>
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<li>Met with Control plus to determine implementation of RCML. They seem
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excited to help us out and divert some resources to the project</li>
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<li>Met with MSAA team - Very productive meeting. They are very excited
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with RCML and the advatanges it will bring them. They will be sending a list
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of requirements and features that they want RCML to support. As soon
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as we get that, we will post it to this site.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Development:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Property Sheet support is now in. </li>
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<li>We're UNICODE internally. </li>
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<li>Did some small perf improvements.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Process</p>
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<li>Perf numbers are a little bit on the weak side but it is nothing
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unusual. Should be fixed by sometime next week</li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p><span class="section">Status Ending : 28 May 99</span>
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<p>Meetings : </p>
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<ul>
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<li>Meet with MUI+ team - good meeting, they will be using RCML for the MUI+ resource format and are hoping to sign up as customers for their dialogs.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Development : </p>
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<li>Mihai got ICECap builds so we can start looking at bottlenecks etc!</li>
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<li>STYLE and STYLEEX now support hex (0x...) values.</li>
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<li>Grid can now be painted on the background of the dialog for alignment reasons (pixel only)</li>
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<li>Fixed various bugs - leaks, perf, compiler warnings etc.</li>
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<li>rc2xml.exe is now selfhosted on the rendering engine - it's our first Win32 client.</li>
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<li>Simple version stamps in the exes, and <TESTINFO> element for tracking / testing ease.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Process : </p>
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<li>Kiran has preliminary bug pages on the website</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Test:</p>
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<li>Started 'dumping' system components (taskmanager) and filing bugs.<br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p><span class="section">Status Ending : 21 May 99</span><p>
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Meetings :
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<ul>
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<li>Money Dev. They have similar functionality, though use the existing RC
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file format. They'd like to move to RCML file format, but support their own
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de-persisting and dialog functionality - as they already have this code
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today.</li>
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<li>Met again with GML (Globalization Markup Language) group (mailto:jsee)
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they are now aware that they should evangelize GML to more groups, and that
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RCML team will support this format for Localized text.</li>
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<li>Met with UIText team. They'd like to have development use RCML format as
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it allows them to do their jobs quicker. In addition they asked for side by
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side diff tools.</li>
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<li>WFC (tools) will not be using RCML as their persistance format.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Development :
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<ul>
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<li>Delay Loading of Common controls and GDI+ </li>
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<li>Met with XML development team. Since our last meeting, they are moving
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towards more Win32 support for size and speed reasons.</li>
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<li>Caching of GDI+ objects</li>
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<li>Now support <a href="designers.htm">pixel perfect dialog</a> layout and
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GRID's.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Process :
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<li>Meeting notes will now be posted here!</li>
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<li><a href="BUGS/rcml.rdq">RDQ</a> is now published on homepage. </li>
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</ul>
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<p>Testing :
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<ul>
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<li>Wohoo! We now have testing team (<a href="mailto:rcmltest">RCMLTest</a>)
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and they are ramping up.</li>
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<li><a href="BUGS/rcml.rdq">RDQ</a> is now published on homepage. </li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p><span class="section">Status Ending : 14 May 99</span><p>
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Meetings :
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<ul>
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<li>Controls (JeffBog), </li>
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<li>Product Designers and Testing.</li>
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<li> Got initial GML (Globalization Markup Language) spec from
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Localizers.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Development :
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<ul>
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<li>Added elementary Border support for Images. </li>
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<li>Fixed control clipping bug. </li>
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<li>Fixed chaining of RELATIVE positioning</li>
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<li>Talked with Neptune over XML synergy, specifically layout / positioning.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Process :
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<li>Setup this site!</li>
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<li> Setup weekly meetings, and schedule mail.</li>
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<li>Had RCML categories added to NT5 raid database (RDQ pending). </li>
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<li>First stab at Dev Schedule</li>
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</ul>
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<p><span class="section">Status Ending : 7 May 99</span><p>
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