From: Ben <samman@CS.YALE.EDU>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 94 18:44:14 PST
To: Don Melvin <storm@marlin.ssnet.com>
Subject: Re: Need program pointers
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On Sat, 26 Nov 1994, Don Melvin wrote:
> 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?

Norton has a decent wipefile. I don't know if it exists with the current
distribution, but with 4.5(which I have) it has it.

> 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.

PCTools Compress for PCTools 7.0 would do this, if you specified the
option.  AGain an old version, I don't know anything about the current
versions.

Ben.