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                                 qtip

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>> About
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This is a small command-line utility that deletes a file by first
overwriting the data with a 4-pass scheme (random, even, odd, random) and
optionally benefits from the asyncio.library if present.

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>> How to install
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  1.) Extract the archive
  2.) Copy bin/qtip to C: (or any other directory in the executable path)

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>> How to compile
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The program was written to be compiled with SAS/C but you can compile it
with whatever tool available that has the required AmigaOS libraries and
include files. You may need to download dev/c/AsyncIO.lha by Magnus Holmgren
since it contains the required include files. If needed, the include files
and libraries should be moved to the SAS/C folder (libs under libs, include
under include, etc...).

After all the includes and libraries are setup correctly, you can change
directory to "src" and then issue the command:

sc link qtip.c

and it should result in a qtip binary file.

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>> How to use
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After copying the binary to an executable path, issue:

echo "test" > RAM:testfile.txt

to generate a test file at ''RAM:testfile.txt'' and then issue:

qtip RAM:testfile.txt

in order to delete that file.

qtip accepts ALL and QUIET as command-line parameters, where ALL will
attempt to recursively delete a directory supplied and QUIET will suppress
the deletion and wiping messages. For example:

qtip all RAM:T

will recursively delete the contents of the RAM:T directory. Or,

qtip all quiet RAM:T

in order to suppress any deletion and wiping messages.

You can also supply patterns to qtip. For example, if you wanted to delete
the entire contents of the RAM:test/ directory, you would issue:

qtip RAM:test/#?

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>> Project Website
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This project's website is at:

  * http://grimore.org/amiga/development/os3/securely_delete_files

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>> Feedback
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You can reach us at:

   Wizardry and Steamworks
   e-mail: officegrimore.org

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[unknown]                  593    1233  48.1% -lh5- 7c3a Aug  3 00:57 qtip.info
[unknown]                  590    1233  47.9% -lh5- 8fc5 Aug  3 00:57 qtip/bin.info
[unknown]                 4691    8648  54.2% -lh5- bc70 Aug  4 06:23 qtip/bin/qtip
[unknown]                  393     831  47.3% -lh5- 7b46 Aug  3 00:57 qtip/bin/qtip.info
[unknown]                 1082    2612  41.4% -lh5- 5960 Aug  4 06:21 qtip/qtip.readme
[unknown]                  453     886  51.1% -lh5- 08c5 Aug  3 00:57 qtip/qtip.readme.info
[unknown]                  594    1233  48.2% -lh5- d46f Aug  3 00:57 qtip/src.info
[unknown]                 4991   24405  20.5% -lh5- c1c0 Aug  4 06:16 qtip/src/qtip.c
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 Total         8 files   13387   41081  32.6%            Aug  3 21:37