In a message to John Thompson, Klaus Meinhard wrote re: Fill a file...

LJ>> Why? Because the passwords to access my bank accounts are in the
LJ>> windows3.11 SwapFile...
 
JT> Launch Windows using a script:
 
JT> {at}echo off 
JT> pushd c:\windows 
JT> win.com 
JT> del /w c:\386spar.par 
JT> popd
 
JT> You'll get an error about the missing swap file when you restart
 
KM> Deleting the swapfile isn't the issue. You can still extract all the info from
KM> the remains on disk. Only overwriting it with some pattern will destroy the
KM> remaining data. 

Yes, but deleting it with the "/w" switch *does* overwrite the 
file with hex "00" before deleting.



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