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echo: wperfect
to: FREDERICK SOHN
from: AUKE REITSMA
date: 1996-07-29 21:27:00
subject: fax autoexec.bat

Hi Frederick,
On 25 Jul 96, 13:03, Frederick Sohn wrote to Gary Cooper
 FS>    I responded privately to Raymond Myers, offering a choice of
 FS> three REBOOT.COM files.  Two do a warm reboot; the third a cold
 FS> reboot.  Each is 16 bytes.  Whereupon you come along with a
 FS> four-byte *.COM file to do a cold reboot.
 FS>    I wonder if you've any idea why they should be four times as
 FS> long as yours'?
The larger reboot.com's probably do a disk reset. This flushes the cache with 
most cache programs. If that isn't done in time you'll have corrupted files 
and lost clusters ...
(Hm, that could be read in two ways. Both are valid though.)
Greetings from
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