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Back in the days of shareware, around 1985, I wrote a program called TXT2COM. It was a simple way of turning a text file into an executable. All a user had to do was run the converted com file and the text file appeared on the screen with full scrolling, search and save. I had my name and phone number embedded in the program.<p>My first problem was when someone converted the Constitution of the United States into a COM file, but made some typos. I got hundreds of calls.<p>Then someone converted a entire library of gay porn text files which resulted in some uncomfortable phone calls to my wife while I was at work.<p>I released another version without my name and phone number, but the damage was done. I can still find my name embedded on com files in old archives.<p>The program was eventually bundled with an edition of &quot;The Art of Computer Programming&quot; by Donald E. Knuth. He used it to wrap some of the text files on the disk that came with the book. He paid me with a signed copy of the book and a very nice letter.