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PENICILN ST Programmer's Manual PENICILN
NAME
PENICILN - Remove possible virus programs from floppy disks
SYNOPSIS
peniciln [-km] drive [...drive]
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.
-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.
-m this option causes the program to write an MS-DOS compatible boot
sector, rather than zeroing out the data.
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.
AUTHOR
George R. Woodside Compuserve 76537,1342
5219 San Feliciano Dr. GEnie G.WOODSIDE
Woodland Hills, Ca. 91364
USENET: ..!{trwrb|philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside
Printed 03/27/88 1