Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: DESTROY version 2.3 file wiper for DOS

2007-09-24 Thread Alain M.
MegaBrutal escreveu: Hi all! It's my very first post to the list, so greetings for all. Please, be welcomme! I've finished the 2.3 version of Destroy. Just a reminder: A much more simple wipe-before-delete can be acconplished with my version of XDEL, which is compatible with DrDOS's.

Re: [Freedos-user] DESTROY version 2.3 file wiper for DOS

2007-09-24 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi people! On Monday 24 September 2007 19:47, Alain M. wrote: Just a reminder: A much more simple wipe-before-delete can be acconplished with my version of XDEL, which is compatible with DrDOS's. Well, then I have to do some advertising too :-) You can as well use my little tool called DESTROY

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: DESTROY version 2.3 file wiper for DOS

2007-09-24 Thread Jim Hall
Of course, a _secure_ file wiper needs to do more than just write 0's to the disk. With the right equipment, that's fairly easy to recover the data. A more secure file wiper writes patterns, including random data, to each block to make the disk unrecoverable. DBAN does a very good job of this,

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: DESTROY version 2.3 file wiper for DOS

2007-09-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Alain, I think in particular a slack space wiper would be nice. Something which opens each file, adds 00s to make the size a multiple of the cluster size, makes sure that the changes are written to disk, and finally truncates the file to normal size again. You can combine this with a tool

[Freedos-user] Possibility of floppy installer for FreeDOS?

2007-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I would like to suggest, if not already available, that the base package of FreeDOS be made available as a set of floppy disc images as well as just a CD. I for one have an old machine I'm messing about with which has no CD drive installed (though possibly could do if it has