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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v02i004: zerodisk, erases unused disk blocks
Message-ID: <6337@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 16:48:09 GMT
References: <6250@bsu-cs.UUCP> <597@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <597@mitisft.Convergent.COM> dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence
Dold) writes:
 >>      :loop
 >>      copy /b newfile+zerofile newfile
 >>      goto loop
 >
 >But the .bat is so slow as to be useless.

There is a space-time tradeoff.  If you frequently need to zero out
disk blocks, time may be your greatest concern.  But if you only do it
once every few months, the batch file is the way to go.
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