The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software,
purely for historical purposes.
If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming,
you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully
out of date.
SYS1997
SYS1997Explanation
An error occurred while the file was being read into storage.
Action
Copy the file or a backup of the file to a different disk and retry the
command.