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<p>Amiga2000@bigpond.NOSPAM.com wrote:
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<br>OK, well thanks for the help, I'll assume there something wrong with
the
<br>disks etc...
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Another possibility is&nbsp; that when you download ROOT, the system thought
it was a text file and converted all the linefeeds to CRLF strings. It
happened to me with exactly the same symptoms you describe.
<br>Go back to where you pulled the files from and check the sizes it your
ROOT is larger than the online document good bet that's what happened.
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