On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:27:18 -0600
Nick LeRoy
On Monday 04 November 2002 1:00 pm, jfweber@eternal.net wrote:
What I require , which might not be as secure a destruction of info, I Do understand, is a program where I can remove whole FILES w/o the necessity of destroying everything.. OS/2 used to have a couple of these sorts of programs .. there are even a couple for MS products. Where after the file is "deleted" the area it takes up is overwritten a number of times w/ 1s and 0s up to a level that teh owner is "comfortable" w/ ..
I've never used it, but I think that 'fwipe' is what you're looking for. I don't know if it's included on SuSE or not; at least, it's not on my install and I don't have my CDs here with me.
wipe is on the suse cd's, it's about the same thing as fwipe. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation