Hello Charles, I wish you a nice day!

 CJ> if exist g:\sx\techndrm.rep copy g:\sx\techndrm.rep g:\spare

        This is lost art on me. I got to binary art too late in
  life. I get the jest of your line but for me to build anything
  like this would be step by step effort and really too much time
  taking.

 CJ> If as you described, you deleted the rep BEFORE you exited the
 CJ> reader, I don't know of an easy solution that problem when using
 CJ> BW.  Most of my experiences with lost reps involved problems while
 CJ> interacting with the BBS.

        It was a finger problem here, Charles. You see, when BW
  comes on-screen, it will present you with the choice of reading
  your personal mail first and you can say (Y)es or (N)o. Any
  reply will next bring you to an offer of reading the mail (Y)es
  or deleting a previous .rep with a (N)o. I reacted to the (N)
  from the delete screen as for the (N)o reading the personal mail
  and that is where my fingers were too fast on the KB. BW does a
  fine job of deleting a file, as you can see. It was really gone.
  No bad interaction here with Doc's Place.

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