>>Hi Joe!
>>Welcome to the Linux forum on UT!
>>That little /MBR trick pulled our bacon out of the fire several times at work >when Win98 was impolite to LILO and trashed it. Also, I've noticed /MBR coming >in handy when experimenting with fdisk (Linux, not DOS's version) one >inadvertantly crossfoots partition boundries and ignores the warning messages.
>>I won't tell you who did that .....
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>Heh heh...I can probably guess...
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>Over on the VFP forum someone asked for biggest goofs, and I mentioned when I inadvertantly fdisked my C partition when I wanted to be messing with D. Gee, guess what OS I was trying to install during that debacle. Yes, Linux. Ah, the early years...
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>JoeK

About 20 years ago, not long after the new IBM PCs with the 512MB disks came out I was using a RS clone of it. I had been working for two weeks on a customer's project, in TP3.02a, and finished the project about 2am one Saturday. I was flipping through a stack of 5 1/2" floppies looking for one to back up my project on. I was repeatedly doing a dir a:*.* via the F3 key. When I found one I could use I issued a del *.* command, forgetting to include the a:\. An instant after I hit the return key I realized my mistake. My wife came running down the stairs after being awakened by a blood curdling scream. This was before PCTOOLS or other undelete programs. Luckily, I used to have a nearly photgraphic memory and was able to regenerate the code in a couple of days.
I sure miss that ability. Now I'm lucky if I remember that I wrote a particular program! 8-(