ML> au contraire, my friend... you were in a DOS fullscreen /task/ or a DOS
 ML> window... but you were still in windows and windows was fully
 ML> operational and running... just because you don't see it on the screen
 ML> doesn't mean that it isn't running or such ;)

 JP>         Sure has me fooled. I can understand when in Strart -> Run 
  -> Command, that we are still in Windows. But if I start/boot a
 JP>   system with an ERD for Win95, I think that I am in full DOS. 

 JP>         No ?

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

i didn't understand that you were running BW while booted from an ERD... if
you were, then you should have been able to locate the file that got
deleted... if, however, you rebooted from a normal boot, then it is very
possible that windows normal shutdown routines did overwrite the file in
question... there are numerous system files that windows flushes and
rewrites to disk when it shuts down... the main ones being the registry
files...

)\/(ark