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Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:52:17 -0800
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From:	Mike Sensney <msensney AT owt DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Beware of PTS-DOS
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At 10:11 AM 11/20/2000 -0200, Alain wrote:
>two coments: (1) it showed a message saying that the copy was being
>made in binary, (2) this time it was not the FAT that was corrupted, but
>the file contents. I checked with FreeDos's COMP and there were a few
>bytes (first time it was 4 and second time it was 5) that were changed.
>I didn't check the FAT after this operation, only after a few more

Have you checked your RAM memory? 
Problems like this could be caused by bad RAM. 

My favorite RAM tester can be found at 
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86

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