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ZEROFILL R2.01 released! (Announce)

posted by Guti , 03.02.2025, 06:05

Thank you so much. Since version 2.0 ZEROFILL is using 64 bit arithmetic as well as supporting extended diskfree is available.



> I only vaguely recall that some previous version of yours would crash
> (only) under VirtualBox. I ended up writing my own in i8086-msdos
> FreePascal (using int64 and DOS unit's FAT32-aware DiskFree function). That
> was on my MetaDOS floppy image to clear junk (deleted) data, mostly just to
> compress better.
>
> For comparison, there are other ways to do it.
>
> * Jason Hood (Jadoxa) modified a
> WIPE utility to
> add both LFN and FAT32 awareness.
> * UNIX dd is probably
> ideal, but I doubt our DOS ports (GNUish or DJGPP) support /dev/zero or
> /dev/random . At the very least, they are too old to support progress info.
> (I also haven't heavily tested the UnxUtils Win32 version.)
> * Does DJGPP's old (CoreUtils) FileUtils have SHRED? Probably, but that's
> more for security than just zeroing out for better compression.
> * There's probably an easy way in 4DOS to do the same thing.

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Complete thread:

• ZEROFILL R2.00 released! - Guti, 30.01.2025, 11:24 (Announce)
  • ZEROFILL R2.01 released! - Guti, 30.01.2025, 13:01
    • ZEROFILL R2.01 released! - Rugxulo, 01.02.2025, 00:30
      • ZEROFILL R2.01 released! - Guti, 03.02.2025, 06:05