Re: Small (but useful) utility

[Dave Horsfall <dave () horsfall org>]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, M. Mohr wrote:

> When I couldn't find a decent file wiping utility on my own
> machine, I decided to write one.  Yes, I did search the net
> and came up with a few... but they seem to be poorly written
> and overly complicated.  So, in just 64 lines, I wrote one
> that would be useful for me, that would work well, and that is
> simple enough to understand.

You have failed to take the effects of caching (memory and disk) into
account.  This is probably why the others are "overly complicated."

-- Dave

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