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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1134 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:27:32 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!samsung!nighthawk.clearpoint.com!transfer.stratus.com!noc.near.net!news.Brown.EDU!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!caen!umeecs!quip.eecs.umich.edu!dmuntz From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] dzap - a simple disk zapping program Message-ID: <1993Feb12.085428.5481@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Date: 12 Feb 93 08:54:28 GMT Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 191 dzap is a program I wrote some time ago to edit boot sectors on the IBM RT. I've since made it fairly portable and have been using it under 386bsd. Included below is the README file followed by the uuencoded source (it's short). /****************************************************************/ /* dzap v1.0 - a curses-based disk zapping tool */ /* by Dan Muntz - dmuntz@citi.umich.edu */ /* Feel free to copy/distribute/modify this code as long as */ /* these comments are left intact. */ /* The author bears no responsibility for any consequences of */ /* any use or misuse of this program. */ /****************************************************************/ dzap is a curses-based binary file editor. Although it was written primarily for operations on the raw disk device, it can also be useful on /dev/mem and regular files. BE CAREFUL WHEN EDITING THE RAW DISK AND MEMORY. To build dzap, type 'make'. This will leave a 'dzap' binary in the current directory which can be installed anywhere. At one point, dzap compiled effortlessly on 386/486 machines (running 386bsd and Mach 2.5), Suns, RTs (AOS/BSD 4.3), and others. I've made changes since then, but if it no longer compiles instantly on any of the above, it shouldn't be too hard to bring up. invocation: dzap [-s] [-r] filename -r - read only (writing permited is the default) -s - small screen (block size = 256 bytes) filename must be an existinIHAVE <C2Ar73.LFo@iat.holonet.net>