From: roy@cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 94 12:03:42 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Need program pointers
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In list.cypherpunks, storm@marlin.ssnet.com writes:

> 
> Hey all!
> 
> I'm looking for some program recommendation and locations pointers.
> Both for MS-dos.
> 
> First, a good secure delete program.  These I know exists, which are good?

I've had good experience with Norton Wipefile.

> Second, I don't know if this exists.  I've never heard of one but it should!
> I want a program to go through a DOS hard drive and zero out all the unused
> sectors.  It would also be nice if it zero'ed the tailing disk block after
> the end of a file.

Norton Wipedisk (in the same utils collection with Wipefile) will do
this, including wiping the trailing bytes from unfilled clusters at the
end of files.
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