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Re: PC disk wipe software

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Subject: Re: PC disk wipe software
From: [email protected] (Robert Hettinga)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 12:24:09 -0400
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>PC Tools has a wipe program that will either wipe individual files, or
>wipe all unallocated diskspace. It also allows you to choose the level
>of wipe (single overwrite, multiple, etc).

There has been considerable discussion on the MCIP list about how most
*Mac* programs that purport to do this, like Burn, for example, leave stuff
over in disk blocks. My understanding is that this is not a trivial
problem, and it occurs in MUSH-DOS as well....

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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Robert Hettinga ([email protected])
Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131
USA (617) 323-7923
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