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Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode

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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:00
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"Aaron" <chaaron@lave.net> wrote:
>...that DE saved my bacon a few
>>times.
>>
>>Tom
>
>One time me and another junior tech in my shop used it to change the
>data in Command.com on a DOS system.  When you typed DIR, it gave
>this message:
>What are you, stupid or something?
>
>My boss wasn't amused, as it was his workstation.  But we laughed our
>asses off.  Great fun.
>--
>Aaron Marks
>
>
Hee, hee...I had to use it for more serious reasons...like the time I
was housecleaning and wiped out my current copy of Netscape, including
a 100k bookmark file...used the search string LAST_MODIFIED to find
it, and pulled it out in 4k chunks, or whatever the maximum is...my
diligence in keeping my partitions defragged paid off.

Tom
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From: tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
Date: 1999/08/26
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