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The following properties of C[0,1] are proved here. Let T: C[0,1] → Y be a disjointness preserving bijection onto an arbitrary vector lattice Y. Then the inverse operator $T^{-1}$ is also disjointness preserving, the operator T is regular, and the vector lattice Y is order isomorphic to C[0,1]. In particular if Y is a normed lattice, then T is also automatically norm continuous. A major step needed for proving these properties is provided by Theorem 3.1 asserting that T satisfies some technical condition that is crucial in the study of operators preserving disjointness.