> steve, we were testing your changes and they errored. can you pls 
> look at these tracefiles?
> cam

You dolt, you set HPLX_PARAMETER_7=A0, but it should be set to AO. 
Please re-run the test.

> steve, we were testing your changes and they errored. can you pls 
> look at these tracefiles?
> cam

Hi, Cam!

You dolt, you set HPLX_PARAMETER_7=A0, but it should be set to AO. 
Please re-run the test.

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