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To: mr.mark who wrote (3084)	4/21/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

mr.mark, let me make a crude attempt. Someone pitch in and correct me please! When working in a program, typing, or most anything, a mirror of what you are doing is being stored in memory. Should there be an interruption, power off, system freeze, any number of things to interrupt, what you were doing is stored in a File0001.CHK/File0002.CHK/ etc: If you go to C:> prompt you are supposed to open the last File and continue with the Saved portion. Doesn't usually work tho'. I delete them thus' using wildcard. C:>del *.chk, and they are all gone. Haven't run into trouble yet, not saying it cannot be done. Win/98 seems to handle this with ScanDisk. Correction Anyone? Regards, /jw

To: mr.mark who wrote (3084)	4/22/1999 1:22:00 AM
From: H Peterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Mark..... I remember when I had Norton running on my old Win 3.1 system, I would get those files: C:\FILE0001._DD after I ran Disk Doctor. I think that is what the DD is all about.

To: mr.mark who wrote (3084)	4/22/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Quick one on chk files: With the old Scandisk, when it found truncated files, lost clusters, cross-linked files and the like, it would attempt to save them in the root directory of C: drive (unless you told scandisk to delete them). They would pile up with names like FILE0001.CHK, FILE0002.CHK, etc. The variation is most likely coming from Norton's disk checking utility. You can safely delete all of these files. Besides, it's a good idea to keep your root directory clean. I make it a habit to have nothing but boot files in the root. Rich