From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.announce
Subject: MSDOS-Ann Digest V92 #28
Summary: Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 and garbo
Keywords: simtel20,garbo,msdos,uploads
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:34:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives

MSDOS-Ann Digest            Sat,  5 Dec 92       Volume 92 : Issue  28 

Today's Topics:
          CLEAN-UP, VSHIELD, & WSCAN 99 uploaded to Simtel20
        garbo upload: CLEAN, VSHIELD, WSCAN uploaded to Garbo
                    HPACK archiver v0.78 uploaded
                            HPACK feedback
                       re-upload of VSHLD99.ZIP
      TPL60N18.ZIP Turbo Pascal TPL run-time library replacement
                  TRIM v3.0 Directory Trimmer UPLOAD

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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 92 02:34:23 EST
From: mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: VIRUS-L@Lehigh.Edu, mcafee@netcom.com
Subject: CLEAN-UP, VSHIELD, & WSCAN 99 uploaded to Simtel20
Message-Id: <4875.w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil>
Summary: Reposted by Keith Petersen

I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:

pd1:<msdos.trojan-pro>
CLEAN99.ZIP     CLEAN-UP V99 virus disinfector
VSHLD99.ZIP     VSHIELD V99 virus prevention TSR
WSCAN99.ZIP     WSCAN V99 VIRUSCAN for Windows 3.x


WHAT'S NEW

     Version 99 of the VIRUSCAN (SCAN, CLEAN, NETSCAN, VSHIELD, and
WSCAN) series of programs adds detection of 90 new viruses, bringing
the total to 865 viruses, or counting variants, 1561.

WSCAN has been updated to reflect the new /AD (scan all local drives)
switch added in VIRUSCAN.

VSHIELD has one new option added, the /CF {filename} switch.  When run
with this switch, VSHIELD will check files for unknown viruses using a
recovery & validation data file created by VIRUSCAN.  Thanks to Martin
Kiff for this suggestion.

CLEAN-UP has new disinfectors added for the Ontario, Tabulero,
Walkabout, Npox 2.0, and Npox 2.1 viruses, as well as a new
remover for the FORM virus.

The VIRUSCAN and NETSCAN programs are already available from this site
so they have not been sent a second time.  Version 98 was skipped
because  of a report of a Trojan horse from San Francisco, Calif.

VALIDATION DATA FOR THE VIRUSCAN V99 PROGRAMS

Following is the validation data for the various programs.  Please
remember that I send these programs directly to the WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil
and garbo.uwasa.fi sites directly by myself.  If you download the programs
from either site, or from any site that mirrors them, there is no need to
worry about tampering.


CLEAN-UP V99 (CLEAN.EXE)            S:110,878  D:12-01-92   M1: 1477  M2: 1D5F
NETSCAN V99 (NETSCAN.EXE)           (not released on Internet)
NETSCAN B99 (NETSCAN.EXE)           S:84,181   D:11-17-92   M1: 9701  M2: 07AB
SCAN FOR WINDOWS V99 (WINSTALL.EXE) S:15,575   D:11-23-92   M1: 5D84  M2: 1892
SCAN FOR WINDOWS V99 (WSCAN99.EXE)  S:90,238   D:11-23-92   M1: 8C0D  M2: 09D2
VIRUSCAN SCANV99 (SCAN.EXE)         S:86,205   D:11-16-92   M1: 843C  M2: 16E0
VSHIELD VSHLD99  (VSHIELD.EXE)      S:45,576   D:12-01-92   M1: B7EE  M2: 037E

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
McAfee Associates Technical Support
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
McAfee Associates, Inc.  | Voice (408) 988-3832 | INTERNET:
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Santa Clara, California  | BBS   (408) 988-4004 | CompuServe ID: 76702,1714
95054-3107  USA          | USR HST Courier DS   | or GO MCAFEE
Support for SENTRY/SCAN/NETSCAN/VSHIELD/CLEAN/WSCAN/NETSHIELD/TARGET/CONFIG MGR

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 08:14:30 +0200
From: hv@garbo.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: mcafee@netcom.com
Subject: garbo upload: CLEAN, VSHIELD, WSCAN uploaded to Garbo
Message-Id: <9212020614.AA08783@garbo.uwasa.fi>

   I have uploaded to garbo.uwasa.fi

   pc/incoming
   CLEAN99.ZIP     CLEAN-UP V99 virus disinfector
   VSHLD99.ZIP     VSHIELD V99 virus prevention TSR
   WSCAN99.ZIP     WSCAN V99 VIRUSCAN for Windows 3.x


Thank you for your contribution. This is now available as:

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/virus/clean99.zip
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/virus/vshld99.zip
garbo.uwasa.fi:/win31/misc/wscan99.zip

-harri-

   WHAT'S NEW

	Version 99 of the VIRUSCAN (SCAN, CLEAN, NETSCAN, VSHIELD, and 
   WSCAN) series of programs adds detection of 90 new viruses, bringing 
   the total to 865 viruses, or counting variants, 1561.  

   WSCAN has been updated to reflect the new /AD (scan all local drives)
   switch added in VIRUSCAN.

   VSHIELD has one new option added, the /CF {filename} switch.  When run 
   with this switch, VSHIELD will check files for unknown viruses using a
   recovery & validation data file created by VIRUSCAN.  Thanks to Martin
   Kiff for this suggestion.

   CLEAN-UP has new disinfectors added for the Ontario, Tabulero, 
   Walkabout, Npox 2.0, and Npox 2.1 viruses, as well as a new
   remover for the FORM virus.

   The VIRUSCAN and NETSCAN programs are already available from this site
   so they have not been sent a second time.  Version 98 was skipped 
   because  of a report of a Trojan horse from San Francisco, Calif.

   VALIDATION DATA FOR THE VIRUSCAN V99 PROGRAMS

   Following is the validation data for the various programs.  Please
   remember that I send these programs directly to the WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil
   and garbo.uwasa.fi sites directly by myself.  If you download the programs
   from either site, or from any site that mirrors them, there is no need to
   worry about tampering.


   CLEAN-UP V99 (CLEAN.EXE)            S:110,878  D:12-01-92   M1: 1477  M2: 1D5F
   NETSCAN V99 (NETSCAN.EXE)           (not released on Internet)
   NETSCAN B99 (NETSCAN.EXE)           S:84,181   D:11-17-92   M1: 9701  M2: 07AB
   SCAN FOR WINDOWS V99 (WINSTALL.EXE) S:15,575   D:11-23-92   M1: 5D84  M2: 1892
   SCAN FOR WINDOWS V99 (WSCAN99.EXE)  S:90,238   D:11-23-92   M1: 8C0D  M2: 09D2
   VIRUSCAN SCANV99 (SCAN.EXE)         S:86,205   D:11-16-92   M1: 843C  M2: 16E0
   VSHIELD VSHLD99  (VSHIELD.EXE)      S:45,576   D:12-01-92   M1: B7EE  M2: 037E

   Regards,

   Aryeh Goretsky
   McAfee Associates Technical Support

   -- 
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   95054-3107  USA          | USR HST Courier DS   | or GO MCAFEE
   Support for SENTRY/SCAN/NETSCAN/VSHIELD/CLEAN/WSCAN/NETSHIELD/TARGET/CONFIG MGR

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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 11:07:05 +0200 (EET)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
Subject: HPACK archiver v0.78 uploaded
Message-Id: <9212040907.AA08596@uwasa.fi>

> Hi,
>
> I've just uploaded most of the HPACK 0.78 distribution to /pc/incoming - some
> of it isn't for the PC but I'll let you distribute it about garbo as you see
> fit.  Here's the propaganda release which comes with it -
>
> 	----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>      PKWare promises it tomorrow --
>
> 				 -- HPACK delivers it today
>
>
>   HPACK 0.78 has finally been released, and features -
>
>   - Better compression than Arj, Zip, Zoo, etc (based on the Calgary corpus)
>
>   - Public-key and conventional encryption of archives
>
>   - *Real* authentication using digital signatures
>
>   - Multi-disk archives (your mileage may vary depending on the OS)
>
>   - Internationalization support (currently available in four languages,
>     built-in support for multiple character sets).
>
>   - Quality Postscript documentation (600K worth)
>
>   - Easy portability to virtually any OS (currently exists for Amiga,
>     Archimedes, Atari ST, Macintosh, MSDOS, OS/2 (16 and 32-bit), and Unix).
>
>   - Availability of the source code to anyone who wants it.
>
>   - It's here *now*, not some time next century.
>
> The following versions are available:
>
>     hpack78.zip     - MSDOS executable
>     hpack78os2.zip  - OS/2 executables (16 and 32-bit)
>     hpack78mac.cpt  - Macintosh executable (68020+)
>     hpack78src.zip  - Amiga, Archimedes, Atari ST, Macintosh, MSDOS, OS/2,
> 		      Unix source code
>     hpack78doc.zip  - HPACK documentation in Postscript format
>
> In order to keep the size of the distribution down, no executables have been
> provided for the Amiga, Atari ST, and Archimedes versions, but these can be
> easily created from the source code.
>
> Before using HPACK, you should at least read the section of the readme file
> pertaining to your OS - I could only do so much in terms of testing and
> cleaning up the different versions, since I often didn't have access to the
> hardware to try it out on.  In particular multidisk archives don't work
> properly on most systems yet, and won't work until I can get to a machine, or
> someone else gives me a hand with it (hint hint).  There should also be a VMS
> port, but again I don't have access to the hardware (sigh).
>
> Peter.
> --
>  pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
> peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz
> 	       (In order of preference - one of 'ems bound to work)

Thank you for your contribution Peter.  This upload is now available
as
 98493 Nov 20 07:08 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/hpack78.zip
146470 Dec  3 01:01 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-soft/hpack78d.zip
511827 Dec  3 14:46 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/source/hpack78s.zip

As you will note I have abbreviated the long filenames so that they
all fit within the 8+3 length limit of our /pc directories. 

Harri will be taking care of
hpack78mac.cpt  - Macintosh executable (68020+)
because I do not maintain our /mac directories.

Furthermore, hpack78os2.zip  - OS/2 executables (16 and 32-bit)
has not been made available from Garbo for the simple reason that we
do not carry OS/2 material.  That is outside our specializations.

I did some simple tests on HPACK, and was duly impressed.

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 07:59:10 +0200 (EET)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
Subject: HPACK feedback
Message-Id: <9212050559.AA09471@uwasa.fi>

> Hi,
>  
> >[ comments about HPACK ]
>  
> Great, thanks - I'm glad you liked it!

There is also a but, but that is up for discussion in
comp.compression I am sure.  You have, of course compared the speeds
of PKZIP 1.93 and HPACK:

> >As you will note I have abbreviated the long filenames so that they
> >all fit within the 8+3 length limit of our /pc directories. 
>  
> OK, sure.  Next time I upload it I'll try and remember to keep them to 8.3 
> myself - I just made them longer under Unix so they wouldn't have to be so 
> cryptic due to the 8-char limit.

Yes, and this reminds me of another thing.  Could your please
prepare a hpack78.tar.Z for Unix only for Garbo.  From the users'
point that would be very useful, because now there is nothing in
our /unix/arcers on hpack!

> Now the bad news: I made one small mistake in the DOS distribution which is 
> very embarassing - I forgot to include keycvt.exe, the utility which is 
> necessary to allow HPACK to handle PGP-encrypted RSA secret keyrings.  I've 
> just uploaded an updated hpack78.zip to /pc/incoming, if you've got time 
> could you possibly replace the existing hpack78.zip with the new one.  
> Sorry to be such a nuisance - there were 1000 things to remember, and 
> keycvt.exe was the 1001th thing, which I forgot :-).
>  
> Peter.
> --
>  pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
> peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz
>                (In order of preference - one of 'ems bound to work)
> 

Thank you for your contribution.  This upload is now available as
114243 Nov 20 07:08 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/hpack78.zip

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 11:13:22 +0200 (EET)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: aryeh@mcafee.com (McAfee Associates)
Subject: re-upload of VSHLD99.ZIP
Message-Id: <9212040913.AA08981@uwasa.fi>

>
> Gentlemen:
>
> I have uploaded a new VSHLD99.ZIP file to garbo and SIMTEL20.
>
> This replaces the current VSHLD99.ZIP file, which was created without
> the PKZIP Authentic File Verification.  Although there are no problems
> with the current VSHLD99.ZIP file, it may be cause for concern from
> people who do not see the "-AV" switch after each file while unzipping.
>
> Please replace this file as soon as possible.  My apologies for any
> inconvenience this may have caused.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aryeh Goretsky
> Technical Support
>
> --
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> McAfee Associates, Inc.  | Voice (408) 988-3832 | INTERNET: aryehg@mcafee.COM
> 3350 Scott Blvd, Bldg 14 | FAX   (408) 970-9727 | IP# 192.187.128.1
> Santa Clara, California  | BBS   (408) 988-4004 | CompuServe ID: 76702,1714
> 95054-3107  USA          | USR HST Courier DS   | or GO MCAFEE

Thank you for your contribution.  This upload is now available as
121845 Dec  2 14:57 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/virus/vshld99.zip

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 18:54:50 +0200 (EET)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de
Subject: TPL60N18.ZIP Turbo Pascal TPL run-time library replacement
Message-Id: <9212041654.AA25424@uwasa.fi>

> Timo:
>
> I have send you the latest version of my fast library replacement for Turbo
> Pascal 6.0. I had stated before that TPL60N17 would be the last version, since
> TP/BP 7.0 are out by now. However, the 'nationalized' versions are not shipping
> yet, so there are still many people out there using TP 6.0. For this version
> of my library, I have removed two bugs in LONGINT operations and tuned the
> LONGINT operations in general. Also, for the first time, I included the full
> source code to the LONGINT and REAL arithmetic. The code is well documented
> (in English), so people interested in how to implement arithmetic could get
> some good idea of how to proceed.
>
> All the best, Norbert
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Norbert Juffa     email: S_JUFFA@IRAVCL.IRA.UKA.DE        Live and let live!
>

Thank you for your contribution.  This upload is now available as
152780 Dec  4 09:49 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/turbopas/tpl60n18.zip

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 12:23:18 +0200 (EET)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
To: MSDOS-Ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil
Cc: roysan@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Mr. R. Coates)
Subject: TRIM v3.0 Directory Trimmer UPLOAD
Message-Id: <9212041023.AA12374@uwasa.fi>

>            Filename: TRIM_3_0.ZIP
>         Description: "TRIMS" DIRECTORY TREE
> Suggested Directory:
>  Author/Uploaded by: Roy Coates.  e-mail: roysan@uxb.liverpool.ac.uk
>             Company: Arrow Software
>     Surface Address: 25 Cleveley Road
>                      Calderstones,
>                      Liverpool L18 9UN
>                      ENGLAND
>                      Telephone: 051-427-4949 (UK)
>  Other Requirements: none
>  Shareware Payments: Yes. 15 Pounds Sterling.
>                Demo: No - Fully Functioning.
>             NagWare: No
>    Self-Documenting: Yes (ish)
>  External Documents: Yes
>     Source Included: No
>        Program Size: 22576 bytes
>
>
>
>
> DESCRIPTION
> -----------
>
>
>
>                        T R I M
>
>                      Version 3.0
>                     December 1992
>             (c)1990-1992 Arrow Software
>
> Trim is a simple but remarkably useful utility which will
> remove, or  'Trim', all or part of a directory tree. Trim
> will delete any specified directory and all the files and
> sub-directories contained therein.
>
> Trim is also useful for erasing ALL files and directories
> on a  floppy disk  which  is  much  quicker  than  either
> manually deleting the files or re-formatting the disk.
>
> Although Trim  is useful  for removing single directories
> and their files, a good example of Trims ability would be
> the  removal  of  a  complex  software  product  such  as
> Borlands excellent  Turbo C++  package. This package - if
> installed using the defaults - creates the 15 directories
> shown below.
>
>                      C:\
>                      |---TC
>                      |  |---BIN
>                      |  |---INCLUDE
>                      |  |   +---SYS
>                      |  |---LIB
>                      |  |---BGI
>                      |  |---TOUR
>                      |  |---CLASSLIB
>                      |  |   |---EXAMPLES
>                      |  |   |---INCLUDE
>                      |  |   |---LIB
>                      |  |   +---SOURCE
>                      |  +---EXAMPLES
>                      |      |---STARTUP
>                      |      +---TCALC
>                      V
>
> Removing this  manually would  require some  considerable
> effort using some THIRTY normal MS-DOS commands since all
> the files  in each  directory  would  first  have  to  be
> deleted before  repeated RemDir commands could be used to
> remove each  directory in  turn. Trim however will remove
> the entire tree with just one command:- TRIM TC
>
>
>  *    Note that  Trim ALWAYS prompts for confirmation
>  *    at least  once before  starting to  delete  any
>  *    file or directory!    Trim is invoked in one of
>  *    three ways.
>
>
> i)   TRIM
>
>      This  will   Trim  from  the  root  of  the  current
>      directory. For example - if you are in the directory
>      C:\TP5\ALPHA then  Trim will  assume that  the  \TP5
>      tree is to be removed.
>
>
> ii)  TRIM ZAPPA
>
>      Trim  will  assume  that  you  wish  to  remove  the
>      directory tree under \ZAPPA
>
>
> iii)  TRIM E:
>
>      Trim will  assume that  you wish  to erase ALL files
>      and directories on drive E:
>
>
>
> Note that Trim has no regard for System, Hidden, or Write
> protected files.  Trim  was designed  to provide  a quick
> and  efficient  way  of  removing  directories  and files.
> Quick it is! TAKE CARE.
>
>
> Note also  that if  you should Trim the directory you are
> currently in  - the  program will  move you  to the  Root
> directory of the current disk.
>
>
> WIPE
> ----
>
> TRIM accepts one extra command line switch which is /WIPE
> and causes Trim to not only erase files, but to overwrite
> the space that they  occupied.  This was added in version
> 2.2 of Trim  as an extra security feature.  The files are
> over-written with $F6's which is the value used by the Ms
> disk formatter.  The wipe option was added for use during
> a software audit recently carried out so that software
> could be 'properly' erased from a disk.
>
> Eg:-
>        TRIM C:\MYCPROGS /WIPE
>
> The wipe option not only over-writes files before erasing
> them, it also renames the file to a string of E5h's as
> used by Dos when deleting a file. Therefore it is impossible
> to tell what the file which has been wiped was originally
> called. This is also true for directories.
>
>
> INSTALLING TRIM
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> This couldn't be easier. simply copy the TRIM.EXE file to
> any directory listed in your PATH statment.
>
>
> SHAREWARE
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> This utility is offered to you under the shareware principle.
> If you like it, then be a decent member of the computing
> community and send 15 UK Pounds to Arrow Software. In return,
> you'll receive the next copy of Trim for free. (See below)
>
>
> LIABILITY
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Whilst great care has been taken to ensure that this program
> functions as described, Arrow Software will not be held
> responsible for any damages arising from the direct or indirect
> use of this program.
>
>
> TRIM version 4
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Work is currently under way on Trim version 4 which gives
> the ability to only trim a part of a directory tree. Using
> the directory structure shown above, Trim 4 would allow you
> for example to Trim just the CLASSLIB directory and those
> below it.  Register Trim 3 and you will automatically receive
> a registered version of Trim 4.
>
> Comments, suggestions etc are welcomed either to the address
> below or via e-mail to   roysan@uxb.liverpool.ac.uk
>
>           TRIM is copyright (c)1990-92 Arrow Software
>
>                           Arrow Software
>                           25 Cleveley Road
>                           Calderstones
>                           Liverpool
>                           L18 9UN
>
>                          - END -
>
> 
>
> Roy.
>
> - -
>     Roy Coates
>     Dept of Mech Eng.                 Phone: 051-794-4862
>     Liverpool University                Fax: 051-794-4848
>     P.O. Box 147
>     Liverpool L69 3BX                E-Mail: roysan@uxb.liverpool.ac.uk

Thank you for your contribution.  This upload is now available as
 14703 Dec  2 18:27 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/dirutil/trim_3_0.zip

Quite franky I think that this is a dangerous utility and I thought
for some time before deciding to accept it.  You might be interested
to take a look how I have done the same thing in a safer way in

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle20.zip Fifth set of Utilities, T.Salmi
Filename        Comment                             Date      Time
- ------        --------------------------------    ----      ----
:
TDEL.EXE        Timo's safe recursive delete      11-27-92  00:23:32
TDELTEST.BAT    Make a practice set for TDEL.EXE  12-01-91  08:20:50
:
- --            ------             ------  -----
0013

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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