Well the check engine light went away all by itself after maybe 20 restarts
or so, not counting the on-off-on-off-on sequences to check. This is the
old Tomes way of fixing things - wait a while and it goes away.....

Thanks for your help here folks.
Tomes

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> >> > OK, so it has been a couple of days now [all dried out - went to
Black
> >> > Potatoe folk music festival today] put the gas cap on and off a few
> > times,
> >> > still get the code. I looked around in a cursory manner under the
> >> > hood,
> >> not
> >> > really knowing what to look for, and see nothing out of the ordinary
in
> >> the
> >> > way of vacuum lines that I find in there.
> >> >
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> >> You have to physically reset the code, or wait for several (I think the
> >> number is in the range of ~40) start-cycles for it to go out on it's
own.
> > It
> >> will not have gone out by now, even if the gas cap was not secured when
> > the
> >> code came up.
> >>
> >
> > Well I guess that is where I am then, off to the land of the 40. I'm up
> > to
> > maybe 10 now....
> > Thanks.
> > I suppose physically setting the code is something I am not to do?
> >
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> That is a false assumption. There is no reason you can't reset the code. I
> am not sure, but I think you can do it by unplugging the battery for
> something like 5 minutes. <I'm sure somebody will tell us the actual
> duration.> Or, you can get your hands on the code reader tool, and press a
> button. In California, AutoZone stores, and others I would guess, will
allow
> you to use a code reader tool that they keep on hand for customers. The
idea
> is that a customer will come in with the Check light on, or recently on
but
> now off, and they can use the code reader to get the code(s) and reset
> it(them), then come in and buy a shopping cart full of parts worth
hundreds
> of dollars, or one part worth about $20. Either way, the store gets youir
> car parts dollars if they let you use the code reader.
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