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From: rcj@moss.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Enhanced "drain" program
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Date: 2 Apr 88 14:28:16 GMT
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Reply-To: rcj@moss.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Keywords: works great!

In article <454@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
}This is an enhanced version of the ever-popular DRAIN "utility".  This
}version will honor the user's PROMPT specification, making it much less
}transparent (how many people do you know that run off of drive A:, much less
}use a yellow/highlighted prompt?) The Turbo C source code is included, so you

We need a moderator!!

What exactly is the "ever-popular" DRAIN "utility"?  Or do you think I
should take a piece of software from the net, having no idea what the
hell it is going to do, and just run it on my PC?  I assume it does more
than just play with your prompt, and that this is what you enhanced
over the usual "ever-popular" DRAIN.

I looked at the C source and it appears to drain water from a disk.
Informative.  Is this a program to coalesce (sp?) unused blocks?
A program to re-organize the FAT?  Maybe it is more extensive and
will in the process of running trash data on my disk?  Just what
*does* it do?

Every posting should have a short blurb telling what the program(s)
included in the posting actually do.  Not all of us have been
immersed in the PC world since we were 12; we may well not know
what the "ever-popular" XYZ is.

Please, if all you want to do is flame me or just tell me the answer
to my question ("what does DRAIN do?"), do it via e-mail to keep from
cluttering up this group -- thanks!

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