Wipe
(ver 2.10)
Abandoned Freeware


Wipe is a file wiper that also supports extended wildcards.  "wiper.exe" is 
the 16-bit DOS executable ("wipew.exe" is for the 32-bit Windows command line).

If no other instructions are given, file is written over once by null characters...
Then the length of file is truncated to zero and it is renamed using random name. 
Renaming is repeated as many times as the wiping and a new random name is used 
each time. The date of the file is then changed to "null date", January 1 1980. 
Finally the file is removed from the directory.


WIPE file... [/A:[-]AHRS] [/NPQSTXYZ] [/! | /E files... /I files...]
             [/F] [/M[NQWGF] /V"xxx" /Rn /C"command";"off";"on"]
             [@[@]|%[name]] [/4[:dfile] [/[dts-ranges]]

  file...   Specifies one or more files to be wiped. Wildcards are allowed.
    /A:  Attribute select       /T   Total
    /C   Command off/on         /V   overwriting Values
    /F   wipe Free areas        /X   removes empty subdirectories
    /M   wiping Mode            /Y   answers "Yes" to all prompts
    /N   Nothing                /Z   Zap: removes also protected files
    /P   Prompt                 /E   Exclude following files
    /Q   Quiet                  /I   Include following files
    /R   Repeat                 /!   delete all except following files
    /S   Subdirectories

   @[@]|%[name]   Reads parameters from a file or from an environment variable.
   /4[:dfile]     4DOS: Removes also 4DOS file descriptions from "dfile".
                  Default file name is "descript.ion".
   /[dts-ranges]  Specifies date, time or size range according to which
                  files are chosen. Format is: /[{type}{begin},{end}].

   This help summary is available with /? switch.