Wayne Freno wrote:
> 
> Whenever I try to run this proggie it makes a mess of
> my screen, sort of vertical lines in the upper left,

Works for me. You need to have mouse support in DOS to use it.
When you've started the prog you get help by hitting ? or h,
and quit with "q". Vertical lines are supposed to be there, 
random ascii chars not.
It's somewhat documented in the winhelp.