>>>>Good luck digging this one out. You'll need it :).
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>>>Thanks. Yes I asked if they'd upgraded their puter lately or not, but not. This system is used by customers on m/cs from Pentium Xs, under XP through to Intel 8086 boxes, under iRMX (only joking about the latter - but there IS a large range of disparate m/cs being used :-)
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>>The last time I saw "m/c" it meant "machine code", i.e. assembler.
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>Well you've never read any of my messages then, cos I use it a lot for machine (as I assumed many people did).

When you start spilling funny abbrvs arrnd, I usually read that vvf.