I wrote:

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> I too use v3.50. It appears the corruption in my FileInfo2_bin file 
> occurred
> at around the time I updated (Nov 2005). I hope this isnt significant..
>
> The good thing for me about all this hassle has been that Ive gone 
> through,
> and almost entirely re-written, my boot files (rather than just adding to
> and/or patching the existing ones) for the first time since about 1990 ;o) 
> I
> believe even Hercules, after mucking out the Augean stables, could not 
> have
> felt more pleased with himself ;o)

Well, Im not quite as pleased as I deserved to be after all that shite. 
There is still some problem, though the symptoms keep moving around like a 
spasm in a hypochondriac's colon.

Ive probably blamed just about everyone whos ever produced software for the 
QL (myself included) so please excuse me for lashing out at all and sundry. 
At the present moment suspicion has reverted back to FileInfo2, specifically 
v3.50.

System QPC2 v3.33, SMSQ/E v3.13:

1 REMark lrespr'win2_debug_qmon'
2 LRESPR 'win2_rxt_Menu_rext': rem V7.66 Latest released version (?)
3 lrespr 'win2_util_file_qpac2': rem V1.45 - latest released version
4 rem lrespr 'win2_hdw_dzeta_FileInfo2_bin': rem MyFI2
5 lrespr 'win2_rxt_fi2_FileInfo2_bin': rem Original, V3.50 umodified file
6 LRESPR 'win2_sed_QD': rem v B.01
7 data_use 'win1_'
8 exep 'files'

With the simple boot file above, when I execute my boot file from Qpac2 
Files, - no pwoblem. When I execute the same (or any other) file a second 
time: Bang! QD starts up with 'QD_exe' in the box that should contain the 
file name, ie it should say - and load - 'win1_boot', but in fact says 
'QD_exe' and loads nothing.

I get lots of other crazy problems, such as Scrap not working etc, when I 
load my entire, newly refurbished, boot file. But common to them all is that 
if I omit loading FileInfo2_bin they all vanish - poof!

I hasten to add that I confirmed the validity of this test by re-downloading 
FileInfo2 from source. Qpac2 was also recently renewed from source, as were 
QPC2 and SMSQ/E. QD is rather old, but that was a deliberate choice as I 
didnt like the upgrade, however, thats the only usable version I have.

Please confirm and advise!

Per 
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