1. BACKGROUND

 This program can be very useful if you wish to sell your old HDD. Just start
it, and it will erase all data on it completely, even partition table will be
deleted. The disk will look like as if it was never used before, every sector
on it will contain zeroes.

 2. INSTALLATION

 No special installation procedure is needed. Just copy CheckDisk program to
everywhere you want, for example to C: directory.

 3. USAGE

 It is very easy to use this program. Just go to CLI and enter:
WipeDisk <device name> <unit number>. As you see, it works with physical, not
logical devices. So it will erase the whole hard drive, not only one partition.
After startup program asks you if you really want to do what you are doing. So
be extremely careful and check everything before pressing 'Y'. You will NOT BE
ABLE TO RECOVER YOUR DATA if you erased wrong drive!!!
 The usage of this program is not limited to hard drives only. You can use it
on everything, like ZIP disks and even floppies.
 For example: "WipeDisk scsi.device 1" will erase all data on your slave hard
drive.
 At any time you can interrupt the program by pressing CTRL-C on the keyboard.
But REMEMBER: this DOES NOT MEAN that nothing happens to your data if you do
it. Of course some data will stay on your disk but it will be VERY DIFFICULT
to get that pieces back because partition table on the disk will be already
destroyed!
 The program is compatible with modern drives (large HDDs, DVDs, etc) with
media size greater than 4 GB. If it detects that the media is large enough it
will use trackdisk64 standard to access the device. Of course, your device
driver must support this standard. But it usually does if you use such device.

 4. RE-COMPILING

 To recompile WipeDisk from the supplied source code you'll need modern
version of include:utility/utility_lib.i file. The file supplied with SAS/C is
old and does not contain UMult64 function definition. You can generate a new
file from FD file with FD2Pragma utility, which you can find on Aminet.

 5. HISTORY

 V 1.0 - initial release.

 6. DISTRIBUTION

 This program is absolutely freeware. I include its source code with it, you
are free to use it as you wish.

 7. AUTHOR

 My name is Pavel Fedin, i live in Moscow, and my E-Mail is:
sonic_amiga@rambler.ru. You are free to leave comments and bug reports.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 1711    2632  65.0% -lh5- a81a Aug  9  2003 WipeDisk/Source/Debug
[generic]                  268     415  64.6% -lh5- 4ecc Jul 16  2003 WipeDisk/Source/PutOffset.s
[generic]                   69      92  75.0% -lh5- 621d Jul 16  2003 WipeDisk/Source/SCOPTIONS
[generic]                  104     232  44.8% -lh5- 94a5 Aug  9  2003 WipeDisk/Source/smakefile
[generic]                 1727    4853  35.6% -lh5- 7c3a Aug 13  2003 WipeDisk/Source/WipeDisk.c
[generic]                  168     253  66.4% -lh5- 948c Jul 15  2003 WipeDisk/Source/WipeDisk.h
[generic]                 1422    2456  57.9% -lh5- 16e0 Aug 13  2003 WipeDisk/WipeDisk
[generic]                 1364    2560  53.3% -lh5- d955 Aug  9  2003 WipeDisk/WipeDisk.readme
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 Total         8 files    6833   13493  50.6%            Aug 16  2003