diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 1dfe20d..7551466 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 This is the "Rectangular Project". As you will see this may have 
 been a bad choice of naming.
 
-This is also a file to keep Windows Zip program happy. Windows Zip
-will not include an empty directory.
+Step 8 renames a mis-spelled program rectanglar-solid.py to
+rectangular-solid.py  using the git mv command.
 
 Ed
diff --git a/rectangle01.py b/rectangle01.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41a62c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rectangle01.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+length = 4
+width = 3
+
+areaOfRectangle = length * width
+
+print("Area = ",areaOfRectangle)
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