Hello Mark, I wish you a nice day!

 ML> in that case, yes, that's the (supposedly) "non-existant"
MS-DOS 7 ;)

        Hey ! I was right .

 ML> i didn't understand that you were running BW while booted from an
 ML> ERD... if you were, then you should have been able to locate the file
 ML> that got deleted.

        No I was not. I got out of BW to DOS to try to find this
  deketed .rep. As you mentioned:

 ML> if, however, you rebooted from a normal boot, then
 ML> it is very possible that windows normal shutdown routines did overwrite
 ML> the file in question.

        In my Commodore days, we called it "houskeeping", Yeark,
  probably what took place. I will know better next time as there
  probably will be a next time.

        Canada Day today !

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