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- PENICILN ST Programmer's Manual PENICILN
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- NAME
- PENICILN - Remove possible virus programs from floppy disks
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- SYNOPSIS
- peniciln [-km] drive [...drive]
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- DESCRIPTION
- peniciln wipes out all unnecessary data in the boot sector of a
- floppy disk. It insures that there no executable boot program
- on the disk, while preserving the serial number, disk
- configuration data, and all files. Normally, peniciln cleans only
- the drive named on the command line, then exits.
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- -k when this option is specified, the program will loop, waiting
- for a keyboard command. Keys 'a' and 'b' will cause it to clean
- the disk in that drive, while any other key will cause the program
- to exit.
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- -m this option causes the program to write an MS-DOS compatible boot
- sector, rather than zeroing out the data.
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- BUGS
- peniciln is an absolute sterilization program. If the disk requires
- an executable boot, such as self-booting games or commercial software,
- it will be destroyed and the program will become useless. peniciln
- should not be run on a disk unless the disk is used for storage only.
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- AUTHOR
- George R. Woodside Compuserve 76537,1342
- 5219 San Feliciano Dr. GEnie G.WOODSIDE
- Woodland Hills, Ca. 91364
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- USENET: ..!{trwrb|philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside
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- Printed 03/27/88 1
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