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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Stumpers
Summary: Ah yes, but..
Message-ID: <355@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 10 Jan 90 17:15:34 GMT
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> $2)  I have always wondered why CHKDSK, when used with the /F parameter,
> $    creates FILE0000.CHK files in the root directory.  Can anyone give me
> $    a good explanation of this?
> 

Fine, I guess that anybody who hasn't grasped that those are the 'lost
chains made accessible' by now is never going to. But nobody has explained
how they could get 'lost' in the first place. 
Computers aren't supposed to 'lose' things, or so I was told, this was
part of their raison d'etre!
-But then the same people told me that RS232c was intended to provide a
standard! How many flavours have you tasted?

Ha!

Dave E.