Hello John!

Saturday September 19 1998 19:57, John Thompson wrote to Laurent Jumet:

LJ>>    I'm not trying to delete the file.
LJ>>    On the contrary, i'd like the file to stay exactly where it is on
LJ>> the disk.    I'd like to fill a file, without renaming, reducing or
LJ>> deleting it during the operations.     Why? Because the passwords to
LJ>> access my bank accounts are in the 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
JT> Windows, but Windows will recreate it for you anyway.  I don't
JT> know that using an overwritten swap file as you intended to do
JT> would fare any better, though.  I suspect Windows will complain
JT> about the swap file being "corrupt" either way.

    No.
    This don't work.
    I'm using 4dos5.52a, and del/w isn't in this version.

    What I'm doing is this: I change my permanent swapfile to a temporary
one: this doesn't matter at all, because I'm using a huge StagedWrite
cache.
    When I exit windows, swapfile is not there any more, but date are still
in the disk.
    I call then WIPE.EXE/DISK/UNUSED from pctools, and that wipes the
unused part of that disk.

Laurent Jumet

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