At 20:27 1/21/96, jim bell wrote:

However, I _still_ want to see brainless operating systems like MSDOS changed to erase (zero) allocated data buffers before and after use (and especially before re-use!), so that parts of vital files don't accidentally get written to the ends of other files.

Not only DOS suffers from this problem. The MacOS does as well. All 'wipe unused space' utilities for the Mac fail on a typical hard drive to overwrite several hundred kB of data. Few people seem to care that the OS fills the unused parts of the last block of a file with whatever happens to be in the buffer. Not good. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.