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I'm going to take the command.com file off one of my rescue
disks that I made for this computer (alas, they can't restore the dos)
and my hope is that that'll be clean.
And now the kicker.
There's also a text file in that directory that wasn't there
before. It contains 3 words. STAR TREK RULES!
Fortunately, I caught it before too much damage was done.
jms